He needs to make a lot of calculations before hiring an auto-rickshaw ride. A simple day out with the family which may seem exaggerated to the generation, who grew up in the era of BookMyShow and Uber. The scene is still funny as much as it was the fact of the day at the time. In hindsight, the film sort of reflected poorly on Sivaraman’s family when its members demand a better life. Their growing desires pushed Sivaraman to take some bad decisions. But, when we look at it from where we stand today, Lakshmi was educated and Sivaraman could have simply asked her help instead of making wrong choices. She could have taken a day job that would have increased the household income. But, mind you, the story is set in the time when sending women to work was touted as an insult to the man of the house. So the only provider of the house enjoys the complete supremacy and our collective empathy. Sekhar’s later films like Kaalam Maari Pochu (Times Have Changed) dealt with the regressive thinking of parents considering a daughter as a liability and a son as an asset.
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