 Malaichamy Thevar, the chief of the neighbouring village, is the patron of the village school, where children from both villages study.Mookkaiya Thevar has an extramarital affair with Hamsavalli and spends most of his time and money on her.Though Muthupechi secretly nurtures a desire to marry her uncle Veerannan, he does not think along those lines as their families are not on talking terms due to a dispute over a field that was to be gifted as dowry to Mookkaiya at the time of his wedding.