It marked a fresh look at the institution by portraying
the hero, Chandru as willing to let go his wife, Divya,
who cannot forget her dead lover(Karthik). In the
traditional family, girls have no choice to air their
likes and have to live with the man they are forced
to marry. Divya’s plight was no different and
yet Chandru had the fine sensibility to accept her
past romance. He says that he is interested only in
the future and not her past. This line of thinking
was new to Tamil cinema. But, Divya was a sentimental
woman and could not cut herself from the past. Thus,
the difficulties that women face in broken relationships
were underlined in a subtle manner.
