Mahendran showcases the three women and their relationship in the presence of nature, the beautiful outdoors that he was so fond of capturing in film (Ashok Kumar’s cinematography and Ilaiyarajaa’s music add great character to the film). The movie begins with the sounds of a metti – the toe ring – Kalyani wears resounding across the home – and after the titles roll, the song Metti Oli Katrodu comes on. No.CR Vijayakumari plays the sisters’ poignant and dignified mother, Kalyani.
Tambaram Lalitha as Kalyani's neighbour.The film closes with Preetha wearing the Metti and calling out to her brother repeatedly. On his way back, he is distracted by his father which proves fatal. During the wedding Pattabhi realises that he had forgotten to buy the Metti and he rushes out to buy it. Preetha asks Patthabhi to find her a husband. The estranged drunken father enters the scene and is the cause for some more trouble in the film. He rushes out to buy the metti, but Sulekha can no longer wear it as she is bedridden. Pattabhi is keen to hear the sound of Metti in the house again which he feels died with Kalyani. On her return, Vijayan has a change of heart and chooses to remarry Sulekha instead. Pattabhi rushes to Bombay and rescues her. After her marriage she moves to Bombay, and a tearful Preetha meets pattabhi with a letter from Sulekha where she recounts the horror of her marriage. Sulekha decides against the wishes of Pattabhi to marry the co worker who appears dubious. The mother replies that one can never escape from shame and curiously commits suicide. In the course of the film the two daughters come to know of the bad reputation foisted on to the mother and they demand that they all vacate the house which is owned by the Gujarathi. Sulekha works at a factory and here a co worker professes his love for her. Vijayan a writer is the other tenant in the house, and he is in love with Preetha. Pattabhi tries to get close to his sister. Then the mother reveals in a private conversation to Pattabhi that she is in fact accused of infidelity by the neighbours, who advise Preetha to dress like a Gujarathi. The house does not belong to Kalyani amma but is instead owned by a Gujarathi man who is usually away. Kalyani allows him to rent a room in her house and Pattabhi meets his two sisters Sulekha and Preetha, who is dressed as a Gujarathi woman. When he meets her, Pattabhi reveals that he is the son of Kalyani's estranged husband and that he has come to expiate for his father's sins. He befriends a tea seller and an all purpose broker, who takes him to Kalyani amma's house. Pattabhi arrives on the scene looking to rent a house.
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