When eyes turn red, the soil will too) is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language film directed by debutant Sreedhar Rajan.

The film stars newcomer Vijaymohan and Poornima Jayaram, with Jaishankar, Rajesh, N. Viswanathan and Raveendran in pivotal roles.

Gautam, a photojournalist with revolutionary ideas, leaves his job after his editor fails to publish the true happenings of the society in their newspaper.

During the event, he happens to meet Arundhati, a Bharatanatyam dancer, who is keen to stage a classical ballet on Nandanar, a tenth century dalit saint.

In the village they happen to meet various characters – Vairam, a tea shop owner, his pregnant wife Valli, their daughter Amudha, Kaalai, a blacksmith, Pakkiri, a mad minstrel, and Papathy, a village belle who works as a maid in Rajarathinam's house.

An angered Raja tells the police that Vairam's teashop has encroached the temple's land, and orders his henchmen to destroy the shop.

Gautam approaches Papathy to join the protest against Raja and asks her to reveal the whereabouts of Vairam.

Meanwhile, Raja files a complaint against Gautam, Arundhati and Vairam on a false pretext that they have stolen his possessions and attacked his mother.

Sreedhar Rajan, a journalist and film critic, wrote the screenplay of Kann Sivanthaal Mann Sivakkum based on Indira Parthasarathy's novel Kuruthipunal which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977.

Inspired by the novel, Sreedhar Rajan made the film with a revolutionary theme, set in the backdrop of folk-arts.