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spending her time watching soap operas on TV and dreaming about modern household amenities. But fate has something else in store for them. They lose Geethu as she is raped and murdered by a seventeen-year-old boy. The court punishes him by sending him to the juvenile jail. However, Monichan is not satisfied. In the end, he realizes his mistakes and is shown to go back to his ways as a farmer.
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