The movie is all about care and responsibility . Madhavi is perfect as a young slim svelte wife and mother of 2 kids . She wears high V neck blouses with simple cotton sarees. Her fine figure is shown in every frame . Her husband Gopi is the local Tahsildar having great respect. Both lead a simple life but the town is abuss with new comers from the Gulf region. Each time she hears a new story of money and glamour of those regions , she keeps goading her simple husband to find a job there so that they can get out of this menial life . Despite him protesting mildly , her lust for more does not reduce . Venu, Mammooty and Mohanlal make fleeting appearences as gulf returnees giving her some small gifts like perfumes, sarees . She also gleefully accepts an undergarment as gift from Mohanlal ( her distant cousin ) without her husband's knowledge . Her lose morals and lust for those gifts are shown when he rests on her bed without a shirt and she does not object . Meanwhile Gopi tries to learn typing and then later tailoring to get a job abroad . One negative influence brings in other minus points too . He starts taking small bribes ( madhavi chides him for not having a car and he wants to buy one ) , then he succumbs to lust and sleeps with the tailor's young daughter , lies about her mental health when the visiting officers ask about this young girl .... Slowly his honesty , character , opinions , ambitions ... degenerates goaded on by his wife . He too starts giving more importance to vanity by colouring his hair and spending a lot of time in front of the mirror like his wife . His bribery scandal is found out and he is suspended from office . The irony shows when he uses his typing skills and his type writer ( gifted by Mammooty ) to write a request letter to take him back in the Tahsildar job . His request is denied. He is also caught running scantily clothed from the tailor's house at night .He lands up in the police station when the villagers think that he is a thief. He is embarrased and not able to explain what he was doing with just a towel in the absence of the tailor in his house with his daughter. He loses his name , fame , respect , job ... In the end , Madhavi slightly hints that he should start learing to be a manual labour as that job is highly demanded in the gulf. He loses his sanity and imagines himself carrying load of luggage of those returning back from the gulf . Over all a fine movie . The wife and mother instead of cementing the house breaks it down . An eyeopener indeed.

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