What is "avargal"

Avargal is a 1977 Tamil film made by K. Balachander starring Sujatha, Kamal Hassan and Rajinikanth. The film had a reputation of being one of the most sensitive movies on women’s lib. A triangular love story, it revolves around a woman who is caught between the man she fell in love with and her former sadistic husband who is supposedly reformed and wants to rejoin her.

Balachander later remade it into the Telugu as Idi Katha Kaadu (1979) with Jayasudha, Kamal Hassan, Chiranjeevi and Sarath Babu. The film qualified for the Indian Panorama but was a failure.