Vasandhathil Or Naal

<p>Rajasekaran visits a village and falls in love with Raji. He promises her that he would go back to town, get his parents’ approval and come back to marry her. However, circumstances alter and he is unable to fulfil his promise. Years pass and he hopes that she has married someone else and leads a peaceful life until he accidentally meets her in a brothel. Turns out that the girl he saw there was not Raji but Neela, Raji’s daughter. He buys her from the brothel and takes her to his home and tries to reform her. He finds out that Raji was forced to marry a crippled old man, raped by her brother-in-law, died of insanity while leaving Neela as a child who in turn was abused by the same brother-in-law and later sold to a brothel. Rajasekaran feels guilty and strives to redeem her. Neela mistakes this for love and attempts to romance Rajasekaran who tells her the whole truth. She hates Rajasekarana and flees. After some convincing by the brothel madame and Rajasekaran accepting his guilt instead of defending himself, she chooses to forgive and he adopts her as his daughter. The soundtrack was composed by , with lyrics by . was released on 7 May 1982. S. Shivakumar of appreciated Sripriya for giving a “remarkably studied performance” and that she “sometimes steals scenes from the great thespian himself”. Manjula Ramesh of felt Ganesan and Sripriya were wasted in this weightless plot but praised the cinematography and musical score. S. Jayakrishnan, writing for , praised the performances of Ganesan and Sripriya, but criticised the director for “bogging down the movie in its initial stages with trivia”, while appreciating the technical aspects such as photography.</p>