Director: Bharathirajaa; Producer: Bharathirajaa; Cinematographer: B. Kannan; Editor: P. Mohan Raj, V. Rajagopal; Cast: Sivaji Ganesan, Radha, Vadivukkarasi, Deepan, Ranjani, Janakaraj, Mucherla Aruna, Surya, Madurai Saroja, Kanchana, Meghala, Kala, Valarmathi, Bala, Bhargavi, Sabeena, Mohana, A.K. Veeraswamy, Ramanathan, Senapathi, Muthaiah, Ilavarasu, Vellai Subbaiah, Kullamani, Periya Karuppa Devar, Mani, Babu Ganesh, Raja Durai, Bharani, Satyaraj
Duration: 02:35:12; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 42.373; Saturation: 0.257; Lightness: 0.303; Volume: 0.116; Cuts per Minute: 14.812
Summary: A relentless melodrama told in flashback as the
saintly landlord Malaichami (Ganesan) lies
dying. Beset by a shrewish wife, Ponnatha
(Vadivukkarasi), who cannot cook and who
was pregnant by another man (Sathyaraj) when
she married the hero, Malaichami falls in love
with a fisherman’s young daughter, Kuyil
(Radha). She kills Ponnatha’s lover and goes to
jail, emerging under police escort to meet a
dying Malaichami, who clings to life until she
returns. A second tragic love story involves
Malaichami’s evil son-in-law who is a rapist
and a murderer. The ‘matter of honour’ that the
title suggests was however Bharathirajaa’s first
film with Ganesan, and it opens with a
documentary homage to the star.
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