Vennila Veedu

A village couple, Karthik and Thenmozhi, migrates to the city after their marriage. Karthik works as a manager in a firm, and the couple lives happily and helps everyone around according to their capacity. They have a beautiful daughter, Vennila. Meanwhile, Ilavarasi, a new neighbor in their apartment, arrives. She lives right next door. Ilavarasi is the daughter of a rich moneylender and greedy loan shark who will go to any lengths to get his loaned money back from those who borrowed it. He also loves his daughter and will get anything she points at and will do anything for her. Ilavarasi, as a result of this upbringing, is an arrogant, spoiled brat of a man and is married to a spineless man who does whatever she bids him. Though Thenu initially does not have a good opinion about Ilavarasi, they become friends after Ilavarasi thrashes a stalker who repeatedly harassed Thenu over the phone. Soon, the women become good friends, enjoy each other's company over the day, and spend a lot of time together. One day, when Karthik and Thenu are preparing for a wedding in Karthik's employer's family, Thenu says that she has only a simple jewellery and will feel out of place and belittled at such a grand wedding. Since Karthik is not in a comfortable financial state to buy her some jewels, she decides to ask Ilavarasi to borrow her necklace and return it after the ceremony, and Ilavarasi happily obliges. The trouble begins when a chain snatcher steals the necklace on their way back home. When Ilavarasi's father learns of this, he becomes wild and scolds Thenu, Karthik, and even Ilavarasi. He asks Karthik to lodge a formal complaint with the police. The policemen's attitude towards this issue is lethargic, and they treat it with negligence. Meanwhile, the inspector tells Ilavarasi's father that while Thenu's own chain is still intact, his daughter's jewellery is also gone, so even Thenu and Karthik could be possible suspects; this kind of cheating is the latest trend among robbers. Ilavarasi's father hears this and poisons his daughter's mind. Ilavarasi also misjudges certain incidents with Thenu and slowly distances herself. One fine day, Ilavarasi throws a surprise party for Karthik and Thenu's wedding anniversary and gifts an expensive showpiece. However, day after day, Ilavarasi's father continues abusing them verbally and looks at them as thieves. Then Vennila is suddenly kidnapped, and after some commotion, Karthik learns that Ilavarasi and her father have orchestrated the whole kidnapping to check whether they have the money from selling the stolen necklace. Karthik is enraged and argues with Ilavarasi's father, who asks him to first find the stolen necklace or at least pay for the jewellery's worth and then talk as much as he pleases. Karthik, unable to see his family suffer humiliation, agrees to somehow give back the money. Karthik goes to his village to sell a property, leaving Thenu and Vennila at home. However, here too, the land brokers make use of his helpless emergency and buy the land for exactly the amount that Karthik owes Ilavarasi's father, much less than the land's actual worth. Karthik comes back to the city with the money but is in for a rude shock. He finds that Thenu has committed suicide by hanging herself. He reads her suicide note, where she states that there was a secret camera in the gift that Ilavarasi gave for their anniversary, and their intimate moments were filmed and leaked to the internet. Her stalker had seen this and verbally abused her in public. When Thenu confronted Ilavarasi and her father about this, he said that they had fixed the camera only to monitor their activities to find the truth about the theft, and they were not responsible if the video was leaked online. When she argued with him, he slapped and humiliated her further. Unable to bear all the humiliation, she has taken this extreme step. Karthik is blinded with fury after reading this, and when Ilavarasi's father comes to get his money, he gives it to him and asks him to return his dead wife. This leads to an argument, and he is beaten up by goons, but he bashes them and finally strangles Ilavarasi's father to death with his own gold chains. Except Ilavarasi, nobody else stops Karthik. The film ends with Karthik crying loudly, looking at the state he left Vennila in. == Cast ==