Seetha’s father struggles to find a suitable groom for her owing to his poor financial condition.

Seetha decides to tolerate this treatment due to her love for Ram, but her father commits suicide, unable to bear his daughter’s suffering.

David tells Seetha that he killed Rajasekar for raping his sister and apologises that Ram was falsely arrested.

When Ram questions Seetha about the child's paternity, she considers committing suicide, but instead decides to leave home and live on her own.

AVM Productions wanted to make a film with Bharathiraja after the success of his Puthiya Vaarpugal which never happened.

[7] The studio's name was prefixed to the film's title (AVMin Pudhumai Penn, meaning AVM's Modern Woman).

M. G. Ramachandran, then the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, decided to re-release the film with tax exemption by reducing ticket prices to three rupees which led to bigger success.

[3][12] Jayamanmadhan of Kalki praised the performances of cast and direction but was critical of logical mistakes and found the climax of Revathi leaving home disappointing and added that the film can be enjoyed in bits and pieces here and there.

[13] In 2014, Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu praised Revathi's performance, but noted that the melodrama quotient was "a little too high".