Mareyada Deepavali (Kannada: ಮರೆಯದ ದೀಪಾವಳಿ) is a 1972 Kannada romantic drama film directed by R. Sampath and produced by M. Jagannath Rao. The film starred Rajesh, Kalpana and R. N. Sudarshan in lead roles.
The film's soundtrack and score by Vijaya Bhaskar was widely acclaimed.
Réalisé parLekh Tandon GenresDrame, Comédie, Romance ActeursShammi Kapoor, Kalpana Mohan, Lalita Pawar, Kalpana, Tun tun (Uma Devi Khatri), Iftekhar Note68% Shammi Kapoor plays Pritam, a young man who desperately needs a job to pay for his mother's tuberculosis treatment. He finds out about a job tutoring two young women and two schoolgoing children - the catch is that their guardian, Sita Devi Verma (Lalita Pawar), will only hire an old man for the job. Pritam disguises himself as an old man and takes the job. The situation is very tense between the young women and their aunt as the girls' parents have recently died and Sita Devi was given the responsibility of the caretaking the children. While Pritam's young avatar is romancing one of his two young tutoring charges (Kalpana), his old avatar is romancing their guardian.