Bangarada Manushya

Rajeeva travels to the village to see his sister. He arrives to learn that her husband has died. The household is in debt and nobody steps in. His elder brother leaves without offering help. Rajeeva decides to stay. One of the village elders stands by him. He recovers the family land that had slipped away. He starts working the soil with his own hands. He also plants ground the villagers had written off as barren. Over the years he gets the fields to yield. He sends his sister’s two sons to the city to study. He pays for a friend of theirs to study as well. He cares for the neighbour’s daughter and means to marry her in time. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by T. K. Rama Rao. Labour and family obligation run side by side throughout. Dr. Rajkumar and Bharathi Rao appear in the one hundred seventy four minute film, an Indian production Siddalingaiah finished in 1972.