Best Film, Best Director (Cheran), and Best Actress (Meena). Tamil Nadu State Film Award: Best Actor for R. Parthiban. Due to its success, the film was remade in Kannada as Note on Disambiguation:
The film brilliantly subverts the "village belle" trope. Kannamma is not naive; she knows the transaction. Yet, she cannot anticipate the physiological and psychological betrayal of her own body. The film asks a radical question: Can a womb be truly rented when the heart refuses to vacate?
Their relationship is stifled by deep-seated societal prejudices and Bharathi’s own sense of loyalty to his employer.