A screen of dew) is a 1961 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by V. Srinivasan and produced by his brother Ramaswamy.

She falls in love with, and marries a non-superstitious airline pilot, but problems arise when his aeroplane goes missing.

Mohan is a pilot who is totally against superstition and ridicules the gardener who had delayed his departure because of the crossing of a cat on his path.

Several misunderstandings happens in the meantime, mainly caused by the stepmother and eventually Mohan is required to fly with confidential papers to somewhere.

[5][6] The screenplay was written by G. Balasubramaniam,[7] the editing was handled by T. Vijaya Rangam and K. Durairaj,[5] and cinematography by Nemai Ghosh.

[7] Link disliked the original Hindi film and added, "In this aspect [Panithirai] sports yet another moral: Never remake a bore".

[2] The Indian Express wrote on 6 January 1962, "Pani Thirai is a deeply moving human drama providing clean wholesome entertainment acceptable to general film going tastes".

[1] Kanthan of Kalki reviewed the film more negatively, criticising the title for its lack of relevance to the story.