| | 4 | 1956 ? b&w Tamil d Krishnan-Panju p S.K. Pics. s Murasoli Maran m Sudarshanam lp T. Balasubramaniam, S.V. Sahasranamam, Rajagopal, S.S. Rajendran, Mustafa, T.R. Natarajan, Pandharibai, M.N. Rajam, Mainavadi, Vijayakumari |
| | 7 | The educated, middle-class Shantha (Pandharibai), the pride of her family, marries the lower middle-class owner of a textile shop, Muthaiyya (Sahasranamam) and starts to run her new family, consisting of an aged aunt, three brothers-in-law, one of which has a little stepson called Kanmani, and a widowed young cousin, Latha (Mainavadi). The family comes under stress with the wedding of two brothers- in-law, prompting the elder one to move to a village taking his wife, son and aunt. When he is on his deathbed, Shantha strives successfully to reunite the family. |