Rathnam takes him to the city and lies to him that his wife and child died in childbirth and the police were looking for him causing him to change his name to Paramanandam.

He uses Paramandandam's innate goodness and charitable as well as trustworthy nature to front him to the society for his smuggling business in which he prospers with his assistant Manickam.

Kumar struggles to rescue his father but Shanmugan, now the public prosecutor takes up the case in front of judge Ramanathan close the noose on the face of evidence.

In the end, Kumar manages to goad Rathnam into a confession, which is secretly witnessed by Ramanthan and cops along with Manickam turning approver and sets his father free.

[8] Writing for Sport and Pastime, T. M. Ramachandran said, "The conventional and even illogical manner in which the story has been presented creates nothing but feelings of disdain for the makers of the film".