Kanchana
Acting
Biography
Rachakonda Kanchana (born 16 August 1939) is a noted actress of the 1960s and 1970s. She acted in all four South Indian languages: Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam. She has also acted in Hindi films as well. She was born as Vasundhara Devi in a wealthy family from Madras, Tamil Nadu. She learnt Bharata Natyam and Music.
Born: August 16, 1939
Place of Birth: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Known For
Seetha Ramu
Seetharamu is a 1979 Indian Kannada-language film directed by V. Somashekhar. The film stars Shankar Nag, Manjula and Thoogudeepa Srinivas. The film is based on a science fiction plot of a brain transplant. The movie was remade in Telugu as Seethe Ramudaithe, starring Shankar Nag in his Telugu debut, and in Hindi in 1995 as Diya Aur Toofan. The song Ee Roopave Nannee Baalina was earlier used by Chellapilla Satyam for the 1978 Telugu movie Annadammula Savaal, which incidentally was a remake of the 1977 Kannada movie Sahodarara Savaal.
Naanobba Kalla
A boy gets separated from his parents and grows up to become a thief. When he finds his parents and tries to return to them, his father who is a police officer refuses to accept him.
Bama Vijayam
The arrival of Bama, a famous actress, in their neighborhood excites the daughters-in-law of Ethiriraj. They invite her to their house and begin to spend lavishly to showcase their affluence.
Shankar Guru
Rajashekhar earns the enmity of his business partners when he opposes their illegal plans. Circumstances force him to run from the police and he is separated from his wife in the process.
Daana Veera Soora Karna
A retelling of Mahabharata through the perspectives of KARNA and DURYODHANA. The film uses dialogue and poetry written in Classical Telugu/ Grandhika Basha.
Snapaka Yohannan
1963 film starring Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair and Prem Nazir about the life of John the Baptist.
Ave Kallu
Rich and pretty, Susila returns from college to find that her family is being bumped off one by one. The only clues are a half smoked cigar left at the scene of each murder and a mysterious woman in white running through the courtyard.
C.I.D. Rajanna
C.I.D. Rajanna is a 1970 Indian Kannada-language film produced and directed by R. Ramamurthy, starring Rajkumar. The supporting cast includes Rajasree, Premalatha, Dinesh, Ranga, Dwarakish and K.S. Ashwath.
Mouna Raagam
Divya, a college student, is forced to marry Chandrakumar due to family pressure. However, she asks for a divorce as a wedding gift, revealing her past.
Babruvahana
Babhruvahana, like Arjuna at the beginning of the Kurukshetra war, faces a moral dilemma. Can he risk harming his parents? While Chitarangada alerts Arjuna to shoot an arrow at their son and take advantage of Babhruvahana’s momentary lapse due to a sense of devotion towards them (as Arjuna did with Karna), Uluci, the Naga princess and yet another abandoned wife of Arjuna’s, reminds Babhruvahana of the teaching of the Kurukshetra battle that in the battlefield there is no space for feelings even towards parents. What Babhruvahana must do is to establish his mother’s good name and thereby his own character. This film captures this conflict spectacularly. The eerie parallels with the moral dilemmas of the great Mahabharata battle aside, here all the familial relationships (in particular, strong mothers and dutiful sons) become exaggerated and demand our attention.
Filmography
as Arjun's Grandmother
as Sharada
as Lawyer
as Ratna
as Govindhamma
as Govindamma
as Aunty
as Johnny's Mother
as Savitri
as Yamuna
as Kantam
as Sumathi
as Subhadra
as Uluchi
as Geetha
as Seeta
as Dancer
as Meena
as Janaki
as Padma
as Chitralekha, princess of Vasanthapuri
as Thattathi
as Susila "Susi"
as Satyabhama
as Sundari
as Suseela
as Seetha
as Kamla
as Parvathi
as Uttara
as Kanchana, a B.Sc. graduate
as Goddess Kaali
as Kalyani