Baalu Jenu (1976)

Original title

ಬಾಳು ಜೇನು

Directed by

Kunigal Nagabhushan

Genre

drama film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 11m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married woman tries to hide a past one-night stand from her husband. She must also deal with a blackmailer who threatens to expose the secret unless she pays him.

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What happens

Baalu Jenu ( transl. Life is honey) is a 1976 Indian Kannada-language film directed by Balan and Kunigal Nagabhushan. It is a remake of the 1976 Tamil film Mayangukiral Oru Maadhu. The film stars Aarathi, Gangadhar, Ramgopal, Rajinikanth, Udaya Chandrika and Pandari Bai. In Baalu Jenu, a married woman must try to keep a one-night stand that she had in college a secret from her husband, and thwart a persistent blackmailer intent on collecting money from her to keep quiet about it. It was released on 10 December 1976, and became a commercial success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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