It was remade in Hindi as Aurat (1967), in Telugu as Pinni (1967), in Kannada as Chikkamma (1969), and in Malayalam as Achante Bharya (1971).

However, she often struggles to pay her brothers tuition fees and ask for help from her employers and even her love interest, Muthaiya.

But, unfortunately, there comes a situation where she is in desperate need of ₹1,000 (equivalent to ₹60,000 or US$700 in 2023) to pay Balu's college fees, and no one is able to lend her that money, including Muthaiya.

Meenakshi family, especially Balu, initially rebels against this marriage with Periyasamy and begs her sister not to marry Periayasamy and guarantees that he would work hard to bring her a right match.

Periyasamy is unhappy that Meenakshi is avoiding getting closer to him in the pretext of taking care of the children especially the one year old baby.

He accuses her several times that she is using the kids as excuses to have relationship with him; He forces her to go to hotel to spend a night with him in a taxi.

Mani drives the taxi and over hears the conversation with Periyasamy and Meenakshi and learns how kind hearted genuine person she is.

Mani also understands that Meenakshi has not been eating as she was thinking that her family is starving after Periyasamy stopped supporting them.

Mani calls up Meenakshi to comfort her saying that he would take care of the family as well Balus final year studies.

This was initially misunderstood by the VK Ramasamy son, VR Rajgopal that she is doing unethical job in the hotel to make money.

In the meantime, Periysamy arranges marriage proposal for Saroja with Marudhu pillai (VK Ramasamy) son Anand(VR Rajgopal).

Mani clarifies that Saroja was meeting Muthiah (Gemini ganesan, Meenakshi former lover) who has now become a millionaire and helped paying the college fees.

[3] According to N. Kalyan Raman's essay "Dream world: Reflections on Cinema and Society in Tamil Country", Chitthi subverts the wicked stepmother trope by making the titular stepmother a figure of suffering and sacrifice, protecting her stepchildren from her callous and irresponsible husband.

[8] Chitthi was remade in Hindi as Aurat (1967),[9] in Telugu as Pinni (1967), in Kannada as Chikkamma (1969),[10] and in Malayalam as Achante Bharya (1971).