Karuppasamy, a widowed night watchman, lives with his sister, Menmozhi, and three nephews – Veera, Mani and Murugan – in a small town in Tamil Nadu.

His panicked nephews want him to be operated on in town, but his somewhat more distant son, Senthil, takes him to his ancestral village to be treated by a traditional healer.

Upon further research, she realised that Thalaikoothal, a phenomenon she had never heard of before, was, in fact, an ongoing cultural practice which enjoyed social sanction in wide swathes of rural Tamil Nadu.

Concerned with the burgeoning problem of an ageing population in India, and a complete lack of social and medical infrastructure to cater to the elderly, she wrote the script of Baaram in two weeks in mid-2016, and decided to produce the film herself, under her banner, Reckless Roses, in collaboration with Ardra Swaroop.

Accordingly, they approached the Department of Performing Arts, Pondicherry University, where Priya conducted acting workshops, and succeeded in sourcing the main cast.

"[15] Haricharan Pudipeddi wrote in the Hindustan Times, 'In spite of making one quiver in their seat with its gut wrenching story which is inspired from a real incident, Baaram is a beautiful and relevant social film.'

[17] The Indian Express rated it 3.5 out of 5 stars stating "Baaram is a necessary film that underlines the age-old heinous tradition, Thalaikoothal".