[1][2][3] It tells the story of a son who wants to sell his ancestral house and put his mother in an old age home.

Thinkalaazhcha Nalla Divasam won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam for exploring the layers of family relationship in a rural setting threatened by urban culture and explains how the imminent breakdown of the joint family is prevented by death.

[5] Janakiyamma stays in a spacious ancestral house with the help of a distant relative girl and servants who help her take care of her cows and poultry.

Meanwhile, Gopan and Bindu have paid an advance for a flat in Bangalore and want their share of the ancestral property (the house in which Janakiyamma lives) to be sold to pay the rest of the amount.

Narayanankutty is helpless and disappointed because they have not yet bought a house for themselves in Bombay and is visibly envious of the prosperity of his brother.

There is also a side track of on and off love angle between Sheenu and Venu and Gopan's girls enjoying the stint in the ancestral house, running around with livestock, bathing in ponds, etc.

She later learns in an embarrassing moment from Venu that she understands all the bad words Sheenu used in English because the girl is more educated than her.