The Voluntary Groom)[1] is a 1970 Indian Tamil-language film produced and directed by B. R. Panthulu.

The film stars M. G. Ramachandran, Jayalalithaa, S. A. Ashokan, Major Sundarrajan, M. V. Rajamma and Cho Ramaswamy .

The surviving boss sends his wife Parvati Ammal and son Shankar into hiding, fearing his family's fate.

But before breathing his last, the boss learns the truth and entrusts in Pasupathy the task of finding Parvati and Shankar and handing them their rightful family assets.

He also changes his name from Solaimalai to Pasupathy fearing Samundi may seek revenge or murder him.

Shankar meets Pasupathy's daughter, Uma, and falls in love with her, without knowing her background.

Pasupathi advertises in a paper via Alangaaram (Suresh's man) for an English music teacher.

Shankar, with the help of Karpagam and Jaya, disguises as an old English music teacher to find out the real Solaimalai.

Eventually, Samundi manages to find Solaimalai's house and threatens to kill him.

Thirumangai's foster father (blind man) becomes seriously ill and reveals her true identity to Karpagam.

Karpagam manages to find Shankar and Parvati being kidnapped and blackmailed respectively, and then hatches a plan to rescue both of them with the assistance of Thirumangai.

The movie ends with Shankar and Uma united together and Pasupathi manages to find his eldest daughter Jaya.