Synopsis
Budget Padmanabhan is a 2000 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by T. P. Gajendran.
The film stars Prabhu and Ramya Krishnan, and won first place in the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Family Film.
When he was a young boy, Padmanabhan was driven out of his house along with his parents by an evil-hearted moneylender who gave him a condition: if by a stipulated time period Padmanabhan could raise enough money to buy back the house, he could reclaim it as his own.
Padmanabhan has been living a very thrifty life, always counting the cost of his daily expenses. He marries Ramya and continues to focus on his finances, sometimes at the expense of his personal relationships with his wife and relatives.
In a subplot, Padmanabhan hires a housemaid who turns out to be the estranged and separated wife of his boss's son.
