Karaiyellam Shenbagapoo

The shore is full of champak flowers) is a 1981 Indian Tamil-language thriller film directed by G. N. Rangarajan, starring Pratap Pothen and Sripriya.

Thangarasu tells Kalyanaraman about an old woman named Periyaththa who sings village songs well.

On the first day, Kalyanaraman wanders around the big bungalow, witnessing old photographs of the Zamindar and his wife.

On the upper floor, he finds a newly smoked cigarette which confuses him, as the bungalow has been abandoned for many years.

Thangarasu warns Kalyanaraman about Periyaththa, that she gossips a lot and has a habit of stealing things.

One day when Raman is checking for the book cupboard, he finds a diary written by Rathnavathi Devi, the wife of the Zamindar.

When investigating about Rathnavadidevi from Periyaththa, she tells him the story of Innocent Rathnavadi Devi and how the Zamindar, who is a womaniser tortured her.

At midnight, while Raman is sleeping, Velli comes to him admitting that she has killed Snehalatha by putting a rock on her.

Velli's little brother sees both of them through window and runs happily to tell Maruthamuththu that his sister is there.

Raman says that he did like that in order to make the police and villagers believe that Velli has run away after injuring him.

Police and villagers again come to the bungalow and Raman tells that Velli has injured him and ran away.

However, the inspector controls the situation and again all of them search for Velli in the secret room and the rest of the places, but this time also they find her nowhere.

Left with no other option than believing in Raman's word, inspector tells him to inform if Velli comes again.

Raman also finds that Velli has not thrown a rock at Snehalatha, but a small stone given by the village clergy man in order to save Maruthamuththu from her control, which she believed that the stone had powers of Goddess Kali.

It is the diary of Rathnavadi devi, in which she has written all the tortures given by Zamindar in order to take over her jewels given to her by her parents.

And also she has left a clue on the diary that where all of her jewels have been hidden by keeping a Shenbagam flower in that particular page.

After seeing the dried flower, Raman realises that the box of jewellery found in the well is Rathnavadi's as there is a Shenbagam tree near the well.

(Seen as a small character in previous scenes) After getting caught, he admits that he has killed Snehalatha and reveals the reason.

His mother was a stage drama artist, not treated well by the Zamindar and remained in poverty until she died.

Finally, the Bioscope man is arrested and the film ends with Raman returning to town, and Velli and Maruthamuththu is a happy couple again.

[7][8] Nalini Sastry of Kalki criticised Rangarajan's direction, Prathap's performance and felt Sripriya was miscast.