He is sent to Raghavan's jail for a five-year term. Enraged, Manikam pulls the sword from the hands of the gigantic terracotta statue of Ayyanar and injures him. A rival attacks him while he is with her. Manikam, the sharecropper who cultivates Raghavan's land in the village, is in love with the girl next door. The filmmaker equates Raghavan with Ayyanar, the guardian deity of villages in Tamil Nadu. The Raghavan's, who are childless, treat the prisoners as their own children and take care of them they are cast in a very different mold from the archetypal jail official. The central character is the jail superintendent, Raghavan, played memorably by S V Subbaiya. This story was based on a novelette titled Kai Vilangu (Handcuff) by the noted Tamil writer, Jayakanthan, and is one of those occasional interactions between literature and cinema in Tamil film history.
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