Director: Visu; Writer: Visu; Producer: M. Saravanan, M. Balasubramanyam; Cinematographer: N. Balakrishnan; Cast: Visu, Raghuvaran, Chandrasekhar, Manorama, Laxmi, Ilavarasi, Madhuri, Kamala Kamesh, Delhi Ganesh
Summary: Visu’s caste-conscious urban middle-class
family drama. Here he plays Ammaiyappa
Mudaliar, a salaried employee with a wife, a
daughter and three sons, making for four
couples in a single household. The daughter,
who aspires to a measure of freedom in her
marriage, is contrasted with an obediently
traditional daughter-in-law (Laxmi). The story
approves of Christian-Hindu marriage, clearly
features caste identities (e.g. the troubleshooter
figure of the servant Kannamma,
played brilliantly by Manorama) and refuses to
hide reactionary family ideologies under a
progressive cloak. Manorama, the legendary
Tamil comedienne, had debuted in the 1950s
and has reputedly done over a thousand Tamil
films. This film was remade in Hindi as Sansar
(T. Rama Rao, 1987) with Aruna Irani in the
role. The major hit extended the AVM studio’s
successes into the 80s.
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