Parimalam visits Vaathiyar and openly requests him to marry her, but he rejects her and throws her out. The deceased wife's last words – that he should take care of the child well after she dies – keep echoing in his ears often. Vaathiyar believes that a stepmother would not take proper care of his child from his first wife, and even rejects a proposal to marry his deceased wife's sister. She tries many ways to win his love, but fails every time. Parimalam's playful nature transforms into love when she learns that Vaathiyar is a widower. The teacher takes classes by holding the book in one hand and rocking the cradle with the other in the classroom, much to the amusement of the villagers who call him 'Vaathiyar'. When he comes to the village with his infant for the job, he is not spared from Parimala's pranks upon his arrival. An unnamed man with an infant child is appointed as the new teacher of the village's only school. These pranks often end her and the gang in the panchayat, which is headed by her father.

Parimalam, a school drop-out, is a mischievous and nubile girl who perennially plays pranks on unsuspecting people in her village, aided by her gang of preteen boys. The film was remade in Telugu as Moodu Mullu (1983), in Hindi as Masterji (1985) and in Kannada as Halli Meshtru (1992). It won the Cinema Express Award for Best Film – Tamil, and Bhagyaraj won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil.

Mundhanai Mudichu was released on 22 July 1983 and became a major box office success, netting ₹40 million against a budget of ₹3 million and running for over 25 weeks in theatres, thus becoming a silver jubilee film. The film was produced by AVM Productions, photographed by Ashok Kumar and edited by A. Another inspiration was a poster of Ramu (1966) which depicted its protagonist as a single father, and Bhagyaraj imagining himself in that position. She marries him by falsely accusing him of having sex with her, but she has to take drastic steps to win his love.īhagyaraj based the story of Mundhanai Mudichu on his friend who lost his wife, and a woman who fell in love with him even as others started gossiping about them. The film focuses on Parimala, a mischievous girl, who falls in love with a widower who works as a teacher. Saree Knot) is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed and written by K.

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