Handcuff) by Jayakanthan, the film stars Sivakumar, Sowcar Janaki, Lakshmi and Nagesh, while Sivaji Ganesan makes an extended cameo appearance.

He stays with his wife Alamu in the bungalow adjoining the penitentiary, and the childless couple treats the prisoners with compassion and love, for they look upon the inmates as the children they never had.

Chamundi who is serving a life sentence for killing one of the 2 villains who had fatally molested his teenage daughter Sivakami.

In the nearby Allikkulam village lives Manickam- an honest, hardworking youth who is the leaseholder of Raghavan's lands.

With the unusual backdrop of a prison, original story author JK endows each character with an interesting history and subtle idiosyncrasies.

On his own accord Superintendent Raghavan takes the unprecedented step of permitting Manickam to go to Allikulam to see his mother, after eliciting a promise from him that he would return to the prison by daybreak.

[5] Sivaji Ganesan, who made an extended cameo appearance, completed his portions in five days in between the schedules of Uyarndha Manithan upon that film's producer M. Saravanan's permission.

[7] Ananda Vikatan, in a review dated 8 June 1969, praised the film for its story, the cast performances and the cinematography.