Groom) is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film written and directed by D. S. Balagan from a story by Balachandra Menon.

A remake of the 1983 Malayalam film Karyam Nissaram,[citation needed] It was released on 12 August 1988.

Varadarajan is a trained attorney who does not practice due to a promise he made his father-in-law when he married his wife.

[2] NKS of The Indian Express wrote, "The Maappillai Saar objective is the taming of the arrogant Jayanthi [...] The taming of the shrew line having exhausted itself midway, the film occupies itself with an assortment of cooked up conflicts".

[3] Jayamanmadhan of Kalki criticised the film for its writing, likening it to a car being driven without a brake.