Gumasthavin Magal

<p>Seetha and Sarasa are sisters. Their father Ramaswami works as a clerk under a rich philanderer Mani, who is married to Vimala. Ramu is another rich man in the village. Ramu’s mother wishes to get him married to Seetha. But Ramu refuses, and the desperate father gets her married to a doddering old man. The poor woman becomes a widow even before the wedding ceremony is completely over. Her father too dies in shock. Mani offers cash to Seetha and asks her to be his concubine, but Seetha rejects, having lost all faith in men, and commits suicide. Ramu feels he is responsible for her tragic end, and comes forward to arrange Sarasa’s marriage with the now-reformed Mani also willing to help the family. When the bridegroom and his family walk out over an argument over dowry which Ramu is willing to give, Mani steps in to say that the family is only after money which will ruin Sarasa’s life. He insists that Ramu marry Sarasa to redeem him for ruining Seetha’s life as he had done by arranging this marriage. is an adaptation of play of same name, itself based on ‘s Bengali novel . It was previously filmed in Tamil as in 1941. Nagarajan who acted in the play portraying female character was the director of this adaptation. The music was composed by , while the lyrics were written by “Poovai” Senguttavan and “Ulandhurpettai” Shanmugam. Kanthan of praised the story and cast performances.</p>