Naan Adimai Illai ran for 75 days in all major cities and was a box office failure.

[1][2] Vijay is a professional photographer from a middle-class background, who falls in love with a rich girl, Priya, whose father is Rajasekhar, a class-conscious man.

But soon the marriage is on the rocks due to the difference in their backgrounds, with the wily Rajasekhar playing his cards very well to split his daughter up from Vijay.

An elated Priya is ready to mend fences with Vijay and wants to tell him the news, but is blocked by her dad who has fixed her remarriage with someone else.

Many years later, Priya who is seriously depressed and always carries a doll assuming it to be her son, is unknowingly brought by her parents close to where Vijay lives and she gets acquainted with a boy in the neighbourhood.

[13] Ananda Vikatan gave the film a rating of 41 out of 100, feeling Rajinikanth did not have much scope for performance and Girish Karnad was wasted.