Avargal

aka Characters 1977 167’ b&w Tamil d/s K. Balachander pc Kalakendra Movies lyr Kannadasan c B.S. Lokanathan m M.S. Vishwanathan lp Kamalahasan, Rajnikant, Ravi Kumar, Sujatha, Leelavathi, Kutty Padmini

Lovers Anu (Sujatha) and Bharani (Ravikumar) separate and Anu is forced to marry Ramnath (Rajnikant), the sadistic boss of her dying father. After she has a child she gets a divorce and finds a job in Madras. Her old lover Bharani is now her neighbour and their affair is resumed. Through all of this, she is supported by a Malayali clerk and ventriloquist Janardan (Kamalahasan), who also loves her. When her former husband reappears to destroy again her aspirations for a new life, her repentant mother-in-law (Leelavathi) stands by her,getting employed as her servant. In the end, abandoned once more, she leaves to start yet another life, this time with her mother-in-law.

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