However, unknown to him, he had slept with a woman, Ammu, during a rainy night because he was drunk at that time.

Nallamuthu, Kannamma's fiancé misbehaves with her and she saves Shanmugam from dying of a plan orchestrated by lorry driver Madhavan who was in love with Kannamma and wanted to avenge Shanmugam but turns out that both Madhavan and Nallamuthu plotted together to get them united.

[7] N. Krishnaswamy of The Indian Express wrote "Sivachandran [..] turns director En Uyir Kannamma.

His story for his own film builds up the dramatic tensions and conflicts gradually, and even in conceiving and staging the action he manages to lend a great deal of realism to some scenes".

[8] Jayamanmadhan of Kalki appreciated Lakshmi's Malayalam-accented Tamil dialogue delivery, the cinematography and the climax.