Refrain) is a 1976 Indian Kannada-language drama film directed by novelist P. Lankesh, in his directorial debut.

Crack), and focuses on two lovers whose relationship ends when the man fails in life while the woman succeeds.

The two apply for jobs; while Chandru is rejected because of his rudeness, Shanta is accepted because of her charm and self-confidence.

But when Chandru harangues Shanta for resigning herself to security and a constricting marriage, she refuses to go with him, and accuses him of abandoning her in the first place.

[7] Pallavi deals with themes such as student union revolution,[8] college life, and unemployment issues in the hands of bureaucrats.

[9] According to the 1998 edition of Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, it was one of only three films to have direct political and formal links with the Navya Movement.

[1] Peter Cowie wrote in the book International Film Guide 1978, "Pallavi has some of the flaws common to a first film (Lankesh, much admired as a Kannada writer, is new to the cinema), but is actually very competent and unswerving in its denunciation of the primitive role still accorded to most Indian women.