Banker Margayya is 1983 Indian Kannada-language film directed by T. S. Nagabharana, based on the novel The Financial Expert by R. K. Narayan, and starring Lokesh in the lead role.
Margayya is a smart money-lender who, by advising villagers about the rules of borrowing money, sends corrupt bank officials running scared.
As with a lot of Narayan's works, the sum total of joy and despair might end up at zero, but the experience is always up in the positives.
Margayya (Lokesh) starts out as a moneylender sitting under a banyan tree opposite a co-operative bank, filling in forms, and offering advice to the villagers of Narayan's fictional village of Malgudi, usually on how to circumvent the bank's bureaucratic process of offering loans.
His career as a banker is ruined when his son Balu (master manjunath) throws away all the account books in gutter.