Avvaiyyar

A rich childless couple adopt a baby girl. She grows up devoted to Vinayagar and will not marry. She prays to be made an old woman so no young man will want her. The god agrees, and the household understands. As Avvaiyar, played by K. B. Sundarambal, she leaves to sing his praise and settle disputes. A king and his two daughters keep her at court. She later finds the daughters in a hut: enemies have killed their father and jailed the man, played by Gemini Ganesan, who was to marry them. Other kings refuse to help. She prays, elephants break the fort, and the prisoner is freed. A boy asks her a question she cannot answer, then shows himself as Murugan and tells her she may leave the world.