Vattathukkul Chaduram

<p>Anu falls in love with Karthik, the brother of her best friend Malathy from childhood. Karthik doesn’t like her, since she was born out of wedlock. Malathy has always done well in school and wishes to continue studying further. Kartik and Malathy’s mother tries to get her married. Anu suggests that she could take her along to , where she could continue studying while Anu pursues a dancing career. Anu has to compromise and get along with her hotel managers to get a dancing contract to earn money to educate Malathy. Meanwhile, Malathy’s fiancée doesn’t approve of her friendship with a club dancer, and asks Malathy to cut Anu out of her life. Though Malathy doesn’t approve of her friend’s way of earning a living, she cannot throw away 15 years of friendship. Malathy decides to cancel the marriage proposal in order to save her friendship. Anu goes to extreme measures to save her friend’s love life. The music was composed by , with lyrics by . The song “Kaadhal Ennum Kaaviyam” is set to the raga , and “Idho Idho En Nenjile” is set to . Naagai Dharuman of praised the acting, dialogues, music, direction and cinematography but panned Latha’s characterisation. According to Muthuraman, the film failed at the box-office. However Maharishi was completely satisfied with the film adaptation.</p>