Meendum Savithri

<p>Manju is an outspoken woman and she works in a small company. She lives with her father Narayana Moorthy who tries to reform the people as much as possible. Belonging to a middle-class family, she cannot provide a dowry for the potential grooms. One day, Manju comes across an innovative advertisement : a groom is looking for a bride without any dowries. The groom is Vasudevan who seems to be the perfect future husband. When Manju and Narayana Moorthy meet his family, Narayana Moorthy is shocked. Vasudevan’s father Ramamoorthy became mentally ill when his business failed, his sister Gayathri became mentally ill when someone raped her, his brother Bhaskar is a drunkard and his mother is an asthma patient. Finally, Manju and Vasudevan get married. During the first night, Vasudevan beats her and falls down unconscious. Vasudevan’s family was, in fact, acting, they are perfectly all right but they are scared of something. The truth is that Vasudevan was already married to Uma. Uma was initially in love with Narasimman, a do-gooder however she later rejects him after discovering that he is a con man, she marries Vasudevan. Narasimman in order to extract money from her creates photographs showing him and Uma being married which leads to Vasudevan assume that Uma had cheated him. Vasudevan gets affected psychologically due to her absence in order to make him normal his whole family pretends to be suffering from problems. Manju then plans to expose Narasimman’s cruel ways. She and Vasudevan’s family disguise themselves as a rich family from Mumbai with Bhaskar disguising himself as broker Ananthakrishnan. Narayana Moorthy who learns of the plan also joins the act as her rich father. Narayana Moorthy though not happy with the developments has to go along with the act after Manju threatens to commit suicide. During the engagement between Manju and Narasimman, Narasimman’s evil ways are exposed and he is arrested by the police. In the end, Manju unites Vasu and Uma by throwing her thali inside the temple hundi and resumes her daily routine. The music was composed by , with lyrics written by for the Tamil version. K. Vijiyan of wrote, “With Visu’s strong dialogues and his customary wisecracks, proves to be an entertaining movie, teaching proper values at the same time”. wrote the film was interesting and realistic in first half which went in a flow but felt Visu struggled and stuttered in second half. D. S. Ramanujam of wrote that Visu “translated the spirit and content of the theme on the screen in an appreciable manner. He has avoided the tiresome fights and double meaning dialogue and kept his “mind twisting” arguments to just a couple”. gave a negative review, saying it has disappointed the women audience, and the subject is not reflecting the actual society. The critic added that there are no crowd pleasing elements suitable to Telugu audiences, as the director tried to imitate Tamil nativity in some of the scenes, and went overboard by creating situations like throwing the inside the temple.</p>