Varusham Padhinaaru

<p>The story deals with an immature teenage love story between Kannan and Radhika who are cousins ( ). The annual festival for the village deity is conducted by the patriarch with pomp. Kannan is the apple of the large joint family’s eye and is spoiled by all. Radhika comes to join the family for the village festival and suddenly, Kannan’s position is usurped. He first antagonises and humiliates her going so far as to hide in her bathroom while she goes to take bath which backfires with him becoming hated in the household and being thrown out of the house forcing him to stay with his friends. Radhika apologises for exposing him in his bathroom stunt revealing that she is in love with him since childhood and came here explicitly to see him. Their love blossoms much to the ire of Radhika’s paternal grandmother who has other plans for her, to get her married to her US based cross-cousin and settle there. Things get ugly and culminates in the festival leading to the death of Radhika, her US based cousin, his grandfather and Kannan going to prison coming out after 16 years taking the mantle of the grandfather as the oldest surviving male. is a remake of director ‘s own film . The role of the lead actress was offered to ; due to her clash of dates, the director choose to cast . According to Khushbu, the song “Poo Pookum” was shot at a studio in , . The filming was primarily held at , . The song “Pazhamuthircholai” was shot at , Kanyakumari. The music was composed by , with lyrics by . The song “Gangai Karai Mannanadi” is set in , a , “Hey Aiyasamy” is set in , a , “Karayatha Manamum” is set to Hema Bhushani, “Pazhamuthir Cholai” is set in , and “Poo Pookum Masam” is set in . For the Telugu-dubbed version , all lyrics were written by . was released on 18 February 1989. N. Krishnaswamy of wrote that Karthik “puts much life and energy into his role”, Khushbu “looks just out of school” and Viswanathan was “great as the head of the family”, while also appreciating Jayabharathi, Vadivukkarasi and Charle’s performances. P. S. S. of said the film could be watched for the cast performances. Karthik won the , and Fazil won the Cinema Express Award for Best Director. Sekar was awarded the .</p>