Meanwhile, Krishna Iyer ( Janagaraj), a Brahmin who had wanted to marry Vaidehi, but was rebuked publicly by her, sees Vaidehi return. Vaidehi, then sadly returns to her village, and informs Petchi to take care of her younger brother for the rest of his life and prepares to leave.
![vairamuthu kadhal kavithaigal in his own voice vairamuthu kadhal kavithaigal in his own voice](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6iUHNpFFnGY/maxresdefault.jpg)
The forest ranger comes to the village and finds out what has happened and informs Vaidehi. There's a beautiful and sad song here where she imagines her happy future. Vaidehi, not knowing of Raja and her own father's death, tells the Forest ranger about her love, after which he promises to reunite them. Balu sees the merit in this argument, and immediately after this abandons all his weapons, symbols of his Thevar status, by immersing them in a river, and stops referring to himself by his caste name, going only by "Balu". At this point, the boy points out Balu Thevar's hypocrisy, at his preference for using his caste name (Thevar), while at the same time professing against the caste system. Balu Thevar makes fun of the boy telling him that it is not important to learn Vedas and worry about caste.
![vairamuthu kadhal kavithaigal in his own voice vairamuthu kadhal kavithaigal in his own voice](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MRkZPBJqmAk/maxresdefault.jpg)
Petchi is enraged, and promises to educate the boy instead in an English medium school. However, since the boy has been eating in a lower caste home, he is rejected by his community from learning the Vedas. They give up eating meat, so as not to offend the boy. Balu Thevar is bothered by this, and having lost his own son, he takes him home to raise him as his own son. He thus wanders the streets begging for food. Being considered inauspicious, since his mother, father, and sister are all dead, no one from the Brahmin community wants to take care of him. During the discussion, they slip and fall into the waterfall and both men die.Īt this point, Vaidehi's younger brother (named Sankara - a play on Adi Sankaracarya, the founder of Advaita Vedanta), who is devoutly studying the Vedas and passing through the student phase of his Brahmin life, is left an orphan. Thinking Vaidehi is dead, Vaidehi's father confronts Raja and accuses him of causing her death.
![vairamuthu kadhal kavithaigal in his own voice vairamuthu kadhal kavithaigal in his own voice](https://cdn-0.poemsearcher.com/images/poemsearcher/5b/5b953fe00a2e2d6d5e23ffa334456140.png)
Vaidehi's father tries to marry her off to another man in a neighboring village, but she fakes her suicide on the way and hides in the house of a forest ranger (Nizhagal Ravi), that she happens to pass by. Afterwards Vaidehi tells her father about their love, who then tells Balu. To atone for his son's "crime," Balu prostrates before the Brahmins. One night, they are together in a temple, when Balu is discovered after hiding Vaidehi. He meets Vaidehi ( Amala Akkineni), the daughter of a Brahmin priest, and they fall in love. Their son, Sankarapandi ( Raja), has just returned from the city having completed his education. Balu Thevar though, is an atheist and speaks openly against the caste system, but is nevertheless tolerated by the villagers because he is generous in helping others in need. Balu Thevar ( Sathyaraj) and Petchi ( Saritha) live in a village and belong to a land-owning caste (Thevar), held supposedly lower in the Vedic caste system hierarchy than Brahmins.