Needhi

Sivaji Ganesan earns a living driving a truck. He is a rash driver and more than usually also driving while drunk. One night he stops at a prostitute's, spends the night with her, and gets up late the next morning. He inevitably ends up running over and killing a farmer, but decides to stay and face the consequences. He acknowledges his guilt to the Judge who in-turn knows that he should send him to prison for two years. But moved by the plight of the farmer's family, the Judge decides to try a novel experiment of forcing him to live with the family and looking after their financial