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-language film, directed by

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and written by Mahendran. The film stars

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and

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. It is based on Mahendran's play of the same name. The film was released on 26 January 1980.

Plot

SP Santhosh IPS has a past life. He hides that from his wife Gokila. Gokila loves her husband Santhosh and her son Ashok but at the same time she has a policy that she will forgive anything but not the lair. At one point when she learns that her husband Santhosh was a petty thief, she confronts with him and leaves him and their son. She goes to her Justice father and lives at his home. She applies for the divorce in court but the judgement was given in favor of Santhosh. Though Santhosh wins the case but still he is feeling guilty and resigns his SP job. Also he talk to Gokila and tell her that he will give her the divorce and leaves her with his son. He finds a new job as a tea estate supervisor. He meets Thangam and request her to be the caretaker for his son. When he realises that the caretaker fall in love on him, Santhosh talked to her and get her married to a labor in his tea estate. Meanwhile Gokila realises her mistake through her childhood teacher and in search of her husband and her son. Time flies by and his son Ashok grows and become a champion in Tennis. Ashok has another name Amarnath and become a famous Tennis player. While hearing this Gokila and her father feels very happy. Gokila's father goes to meet Amarnath. Gokila too wishes to meet them. But the situations were not allowing her to meet him. In the end, while observing that Amarnath aka Ashok hates her mother, now Santhosh and his friends play a drama and finally the entire family reunited.

Cast

as SP Santhosh IPS *

as Gokila *

Gokila's father and Lawyer *

as Neelakandam *

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Younger brother of Lawyer *

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*Chakravarthy * Reena in guest appearance * Manorama Neelakandan's wife *Leela *

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* V. S. Raghavan in guest appearance *

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a bad police officer *Krishnan *Manavalan *Vairam Krishnamoorthy *Baby Preetha (debut) Baby Ashok

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

Ilaiyaraaja Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesikan, 3 June 1943) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, instrumentalist, lyricist and singer, popular for his works in Indian Cinema, prominently in Tamil films. Reputed to be one o ...

, with lyrics by

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. The song "Neramithu" was composed at a hotel in

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* {{S. P. Muthuraman 1980 films 1980s Tamil-language films Films directed by S. P. Muthuraman Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja Indian films based on plays