Synopsis
Avana Ivan! is a 1962 Indian Tamil-language thriller film directed by S. Balachander.
The plot revolves around Kumar, who murders his wife Sumathi to marry another woman, Vaasanthi. The murder is witnessed by two children; they later expose the truth of what happened.
In the film's conclusion, the murderer Kumar is arrested and taken away by the police. Before leaving, he winks at the children who exposed him and says "ta ta".
The film was an adaptation of the 1951 American picture A Place in the Sun, which was itself based on Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy.
