Agraharathil Kazhutai

The film is set in a Brahmin village. Narayanaswami is a professor who lives there. One day an angry crowd kills a donkey. A newborn foal is left behind. Narayanaswami takes it home with him. A woman called Uma works in the house. Uma does not hear and does not speak. The donkey becomes her only companion. But the village will not accept the animal. The children make sport of it. The villagers believe it will bring ruin on them. In the end they kill the donkey. Strange things start happening after its death. The villagers put them down to the donkey. Then they begin to worship the dead animal. M. B. Sreenivasan and Swathi take the leads in John Abraham’s Tamil film of 1977.