Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Mangamma Sapatham (1943)

Mangamma Sapatham poster
Directed by
S. S. Vasan
Country
British Raj
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman makes a solemn vow that sets off a series of dramatic events. The story follows her struggle to uphold her promise amid personal and social conflicts.

classicdramaticemotionalsomberpassionatemythologicalintensehistorical

What happens

Mangamma Sabatham (transl. Mangamma's vow) is a 1943 Indian Tamil-language film, starring Vasundhara Devi, Ranjan, N. S. Krishnan and T. A. Mathuram. The film was produced by S. S. Vasan and written and directed by T. G. Raghavachari, credited as Acharya. The film was remade in Hindi and Telugu as Mangala (1950 and 1951) and again in Telugu as Mangamma Sapatham (1965). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?