Arangetram

Plot

Lalitha is the eldest daughter of a pious and conservative Brahmin family. She has eight siblings and poverty rules reign. She decides to take up the family mantle and goes to work. Due to family needs and ill fate, she ends up as a prostitute but manages to settle all her brothers and sisters. Her family ditches her when they come to know about her dark side. Thangavelu, a man who was once rejected by her marries her. She loses her sanity in the end.

Cast

Prameela

Lalitha

S. V. Subbaiah

Ramu Shastrigal

Sivakumar

Thangavelu

Kamal Haasan

Thyagu

Sasikumar

Pasupathy

M. N. Rajam

Visalam

M. S. Sundari Bai

Janaki

Senthamarai

Nadesa Udayar

R. Neelakantan

Music teacher

Jayachitra

Mangalam

Jayasudha

Devi

Jaishankar

Cameo (Himself)

Lakshmi

Cameo (Herself)