Helping Hand) is a 1984 Indian Tamil-language film written and directed by Mahendran, starring Rajinikanth and Revathi.

It is an extended version of Munithayi written by Eeswarachandra – the third segment of the 1976 Kannada anthology film Katha Sangama.

Seetha is blind and is raped by a Pannaiyar who has a weakness for women and addiction to sex.

[2][3] When Revathi was approached by Mahendran to portray the blind girl Seetha, she accepted after being impressed by the script.

[7] Mahendran, in his autobiography Cinemavum Naanum, countered that the producer and financier insisted to have that scene in the end and was forced to keep it.