
Manorama, in portraying her character, spoke in Madurai dialect. Malayalam actress Sukumari appeared as the mother of Jayalalithaa in the film, despite being older than Jayalalithaa by only a few years. Madhavan, and based on the William Shakespeare comedy The Taming of the Shrew. Pattikada Pattanama was produced and directed by P.
Kathadi Ramamurthy as the rickshaw man. Sivaji Ganesan as Mookkaiya Servai/Mukesh. To her surprise, Kalpana discovers that the marriage being celebrated is that of a different man named Mookaiyan, while her husband did no injustice to her she falls at her husband's feet and the family reunites. Kalpana goes alone to Mookaiyan's house and asks her husband to leap over their child and then tie the thali to another girl. Kalpana and her parents are now repentant. Unexpectedly, Mookaiyan comes there to deliver an invitation card for his marriage with his cousin Rakkamma. Kalpana beseeches her father to get the child from Mookaiyan. By the time she goes to recover the child, Mookaiyan has already taken it away. Kalpana is shocked by this act of her mother. In her anxiety to save Kalpana from further involvements, Bama leaves the child in an orphanage. Kalpana, having been impregnated by Mookaiyan some time earlier, gives birth to a child. The mother and daughter are adamant and Mookaiyan returns home determined to teach them a lesson. Mookaiyan futilely tries to make Bama understand the situation. A lawyer's notice for divorce is received. He beats Kalpana, and she leaves him to join her mother. At Kalpana's birthday party, Mookaiyan objects to drinking and dancing by her hippie friends. Married life starts well for Mookaiyan and Kalpana, but before long differences arise because of their different backgrounds.
Moved by the pleas of Chockalingam, Mookaiyan goes to the bridegroom's house and brings back Kalpana, saying that he has the right by birth to marry her. Bama settles a young man of Madurai to marry Kalpana. Kalpana is fascinated by Mookaiyan's prowess her mother disapproves of Kalpana's emotional reaction while her father is happy. One day, his uncle Chockalingam, Chockalingam's wife Bama and their foreign-educated daughter Kalpana come to Sholavandan to participate in the Mariamman festival.
He is held in high esteem by the villagers for his prowess. Mookkaiyan belongs to a well-to-do family and lives in the village Sholavandan.