Polladhavan

A woman travelling on a train witnesses a murder. Later she confronts the murderer. What happens next ? Sita lives a middle-class lifestyle in India. After her sister passes away, she undertakes to look after her nephew, Raju, lands a job as a Governess-Tutor at distant Vijaypur and re-locates there. Enroute via train a man named Chandru attempts to molest her, but she rejects him, attempts in vain to find a seat in the woman's compartment, and it is then a man armed with a gun shoots Chandru and kills him. The gunman gets down at the next stop, leaving a shaken Sita alone and admitting to the Police that she was a witness and can identify the assailant. When she reaches Vijaypur, she takes charge, and wins over a precocious child, Shobha. She gets a shock when she is introduced to her new employer, Manohar, who is the owner of Nandini Estates, and realizes that he is the killer. He too recognizes her and prevents her from informing Inspector Murthy, who is known to him. When she insists on going to the Police, Manohar accompanies her but warns her that if she identifies him than Raju will be killed by his men. Sita informs Murthy that she is unable to identify the killer. The Police become suspicious and start to suspect her of killing Chandru. They lift her fingerprints and find that they match the ones found on the gun. The question remains what will Sita do after she is arrested? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) Seetha (Lakshmi) is travelling with her nephew to an estate to attend her job interview as a nanny to the estate merchant's daughter. There is a suspicious looking man seated in front of her, at a point in the journey he tries to rape her but suddenly he is shot dead. Seetha sees the murderer (Rajinikanth) and clearly remembers his face and reports the murder to the police (Delhi Ganesh). Then she is appointed for the nanny position and she and the merchant's daughter grow fond of each other. Then it is announced that the merchant, who is extremely fond of his daughter has come back form his journey, Seetha meets the merchant, named Manohar, only to find that he is the murderer she saw on the train. Manohar threatens Seetha not to tell anyone and makes sure to prevent her from leaving his estate as she is keen on reporting him to the police. Seetha tries many times to escape but does not succeed and is always caught. She does not even tell the police when she meets them as Manohar threatens to kill her nephew if she did. Later in the film Seetha somehow sees beneath the rough, mean Manohar and grows fond of him but is confused why such a nice man is acting so arrogantly. Here a flashback is revealed where Manohar and his wife (Sripriya) were completely in love and go married, soon after their daughter was born. Sripriya's uncle who was eager to marry Sripriya but who was sent to jail by Manohar as he tried to kill both Manohar and Sripriya was released from jail as his term had finished. Manohar had gone out to the shops and Sripriya's uncle breaks into their house and rapes Sripriya, due to this she commits suicide and Manohar wants to die with her but she makes him vow that he will get revenge on her uncle for separating them and to take care of their daughter well. Manohar also reveals that the man he killed on the train was Sripriya's uncle. Seetha now understands his acts and vows not to tell anyone. The police who Seetha had previously reported the murder