Veedu Manaivi Makkal

Subbaiah Pillai is the head of a middle-class family comprising his wife Lakshmi, two sons and two daughters – Seetha and Sulochana. They live in a rented property owned by a cruel landlord in Chennai with whom Subbaiah Pillai often gets into quarrel. Subbaiah Pillai challenges his landlord that he will build a new house in less than three months and vacate his current rented premises. Subbaiah Pillai finalises purchase of a plot in the outskirts of Chennai and decides to build a house there.

The elder son is a dancer and is married to his cousin, but he develops an illegitimate affair with his co-dancer and starts living together. Subbaiah Pillai and Lakshmi try hard to re-unite the elder son with his wife which they accomplish successfully after so much struggles. After re-uniting, the elder son's wife transforms and prefers to lead a nuclear family away from her in-laws for which the elder son agrees as well. Subbaiah Pillai and Lakshmi feel bad about the elder son and his wife's decision to leave them.

Sulochana falls in love with their neighbour, Sigamani. who has been employed in Dubai and had come to Chennai for holidays. Subbaiah Pillai learns of his daughter's love and agrees for their wedding. To Subbaiah Pillai's shock, Sigamani loses his job and starts staying along with Subbaiah Pillai and his family which makes Subbaiah Pillai angry and shouts at him once. Sigamani feels insulted and leaves the home along with his wife. Seetha falls in love with the henchman who is employed with the landlord but trying to get a good job. Subbaiah Pillai's younger son could not find a job and keeps trying repeatedly. Finally, the younger son gets a job in a company owned by Delhi Ganesh and falls in love with boss' daughter. The younger son also settles with his father-in-law.

Subbaiah Pillai accumulates some money and starts building the house, however he further needs some more financing. He decides to get the help from his children, but none of them come for rescue. Sulochana lies that she has already sold her gold necklace which was given by Subbaiah Pillai while the younger son demands a sign in a bond paper which shows his lack of trust on his parents.

Seetha is the only daughter who still stays will her parents. Lakshmi falls sick and passes away. Subbaiah Pillai decides to burn her body at the place where he has been building a house. Hearing the news of Lakshmi's death, their family members including the sons and Sulochana rush to see, however, Subbaiah Pillai denies permission to allow them having a look at Lakshmi's dead body. Finally, Seetha and the henchman are united.

Veedu Manaivi Makkal was the directorial debut of T. P. Gajendran,^[2][3] and was produced by N. Radha under M/S Thenandal Films.^[4][5] Gajendran wrote the screenplay based on a story by T. Durairaj.^[4] The story was written in a way that would suit Visu's image.^[6] Cinematography was handled by Baby Philips, and the editing jointly by N. R. Kittu and Ganesh Kumar.^[4] The final cut of the film was 4,117.32 metres (13,508.3 ft).^[5]

The soundtrack was composed by Shankar–Ganesh.^[7] The lyrics for all songs were written by Vairamuthu except one, which was written by Idhaya Chandran.^[8]