Maadi Veettu Ezhai

The story highlights the importance of family over money. Paramanandhan is a poor person who gets a job and ends up marrying his boss’ daughter. To provide her with the same lifestyle, he works day and night building a business empire. In the process, he completely neglects his wife and son only to find her terminally ill and him a happy-go-lucky irresponsible person. The son, Mohan, is in love with the character played by Sripriya. They get married and live without worries. Paramanandhan decides to bring some changes in his son’s life, hands over the business to him and leaves. He rushes back when he learns that his son has started to walk down his path and his daughter-in-law and his son are on the verge of divorce. He fixes their life again teaching them the importance of balance in life and that the real wealth is living a joyful life. In 1966, and came together for a film titled , to be directed by the latter. Although the film began shooting, it was shelved due to differences between the two. An unrelated film was later made with the same name, written by and starring . The music was composed by with lyrics by . Nalini Sastry of called it a film that supporters of Karunanidhi and fans of Ganesan will lose faith on them.