Imayam
Imayam is a 1979 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by Muktha Srinivasan and produced by Muktha Ramaswamy. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Srividya, Jai Ganesh and Thengai Srinivasan. The film also marked the on-screen debut for Kannada actress Malashri as a child artist. It was released on 21 July 1979.
Plot
Gangadharan and his wife are a childless couple who bring up Gangadharan's wife's sister, Sindhu. When Gangadharan finds out that Sindhu is in love with Krishna, his partner's son, he encourages her. What he does not know is that Krishna is a womanizer and masquerades as a Mr. Goody-two-shoes. He has a lover Narmada, who is Gangadharan's secretary and even had a son with her called Yamuna. Krishna plays a double game of courting Sindhu, while professing his love and faithfulness to Narmada. Narmada believes his lies completely until one day she finds out through the grapevine that Krishna has gotten engaged to Sindhu. When she confronts him, he finally confesses his duplicity and says he is dumping her for Sindhu and offers Narmada the role of a mistress. Narmada pleads with him and commits suicide when he refused to budge. Narmada had written a letter to Gangadharan outlining everything and asked Yamuna to deliver it before her death. On the way to deliver it, Yamuna shows the letter to Oogly, Narmada's brother who is a fugitive from the law. He realizes his sister is now dead due to Krishna's cruel behavior and vows revenge.Meanwhile Yamuna gives Narmada's letter to Gangadharan, who attempts to expose Krishna through his son-- but the wily Krishna is always a step ahead, anticipates Gangadharan's moves and discredits his every effort to expose him.
Firstly, Krishna convinces Yamuna that a particular tree provides chocolates when struck. When Gangadharan brings Sindhu, Yamuna and Krishna's family to the first place where Narmada and Krishna met and when Yamuna states so and identifies Krishna as his father, Krishna asks him to tell the chocolate tree theory, which Yamuna does. Everyone laughs, which discredits Yamuna as a fabulous storyteller and completely demolishes Yamuna's earlier testimony about Narmada and Krishna. Next, when Gangadharan brings Krishna's family to a place where he expects Sindhu and Krishna to be intimate, thereby exposing Krishna as a womanizer, Krishna anticipating it, pretends to rebuff Sindhu's advances and shows himself as a righteous man and Gangadharan as a fool. Finally, when Gangadharan brings Oogly to Krishna's birthday party to expose him--Krishna, knowing Oogly to be a fugitive on the run, brings a policeman to the party, which causes Oogly to panic and run away, thereby frustrating Gangadharan for the third time.
Krishna pushes for his marriage with Sindhu and it appears that Gangadharan has failed to expose him, until an employee at Gangadharan's office who was cleaning out the dead Narmada's desk, finds Yamuna's birth certificate which has his father's name listed--but smudged due to Narmada's tears. Ecstatic, Gangadharan goes to the hospital and gets the original certificate with Krishna's signature, acknowledging him as Narmada's partner and Yamuna's father.
Gangadharan confronts Krishna with this undisputable evidence when he arrogantly mocked Gangadharan's failure to expose him. Krishna begs for mercy, but Gangadharan is unmoved and vows to expose and shame Krishna for his despicable lies and jilting Narmada, thereby driving her to suicide and denying Yamuna as his son. Krishna then repents and wholeheartedly reforms--and even saves Yamuna's life. Seeing this, Gangadharan has a heart and forgives Krishna and even lies to everyone that he is mistaken and Krishna is a righteous man, thereby invoking mockery and ridicule upon himself for his stubborn, failed efforts to expose Krishna.
Krishna is moved by Gangadharan's actions, but weeps that it is all in vain, as Oogly will kill him on his wedding day. Gangadharan then rushes to Oogly's hideout and fails to stop him from his mission to kill Krishna. Gangadharan then rushes to the wedding and takes the bullet meant for Krishna. Krishna then exposes his duplicity towards Narmada and acknowledges Yamuna as his son voluntarily--and begs everyone for forgiveness. Oogly too repents and is now at peace. Sindhu marries Krishna with Gangadharan's blessings and the movie ends on a happy note.
Production
The filming was held at Kathmandu, Nepal.Soundtrack
The music is composed by M. S. Viswanathan, with lyrics by Kannadasan. The song "Gangai Yamunai" is set in Madhyamavati raga.| Song title | Singers |
| "Gangai Yamunai" | K. J. Yesudas, Vani Jairam |
| "Imayam Kanden" | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, B. S. Sasirekha |
| "Kannile Kudiyirunthu" | T. M. Soundararajan, L. R. Anjali |
| "Sakthi Ennada" | T. M. Soundararajan, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam |