Vasanthabalans Angadi Theru is a rare, hard drumming practical movie that pulls at your heart strings. It has got enough play and influential font to keep the narrative flowing. The movie is also a depiction on the inhuman situation young people have to feel to make a living in Chennai’s urban tropical forest.

The movie is set in Chennai’s main market place for the center class masses- Ranganathan Street in T.Nagar. The street has some of the most accepted textile showrooms in south India. Vasanthabalan takes a hard look at the vocation force mainly the sales girls and boys in these store their thoughts and anguishes, and you can feel the dampness of their cry.

Where the showy textile showrooms of Ranganathan road do get its personnel from and the ghetto like circumstances these poor people live in, the torture both corporeal and mental that they have to bare is told in a daring and appalling manner by the director.

Jyothi Lingam (Mahesh) is an intense student and child of a mason who leads a content life in his village near Tirunelveli. One day disaster strikes as his father the only earning element dies in an unmanned railway gate journey misfortune, and childish boy now has to look after his mother and two sisters.