Family lamp) is a 1956 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by F. Nagoor.

Pushpa and her uncle Appasami try to abort the baby, but Radha safely delivers a boy.

While Radha is in a delirious state, Pushpa and Appasami hand over the baby to a servant, Gopal and order him to kill it.

But Gopal takes it to the next village and dumps the baby in a garbage bin.

He and his wife Pechi decide to bring up the baby, name him Marudhan and move on to the Zamindar's village in order to escape from neighbours' prying eyes.

Pushpa and Appasami poison the zamindar's mind and make him chase Radha out of the house.

While going aimlessly on the road in another village, Radha picks up a girl child, Kannamma.

When Kaathaan and Peychi learn of their love, they go to Kannamma's house to arrange the marriage.

After chasing Radha, Pushpa takes control of the zamin and imprisons Kanagasabai.

V. Kumaradevan did the cinematography supervised by Jiten Bannerji while P. V. Narayanan did the editing.

Art direction was by N. Kuppusamy and Chinnilal and Sampathkumar handled the choreography.