Sukrutham
In an unheard-of gesture, he even pressures his (initially horrified) wife, Malini, to get involved with their friend, Rajendran, so that she won't be alone after Ravi's death.Ravi goes back to his village to spend his last days with his aunt, where his childhood sweetheart and cousin, Durga, who is still unmarried, starts taking care of him.Ravi gets a lethal blow when even Durga, who clearly had no worldly motives, confesses that her affection was directed at a dying man, and is not available anymore as he was going to live, and rejects his (borderline romantic) overtures as she clearly doesn't want to become a concubine.Back at his home, he gets his final blow when he realises that his recovery is met adversely by even his wife, since Rajendran has by now started sleeping with her.The final line to the audience is the old message that "death is the ultimate truth, an inevitable part of life" with an addendum that it can even be, "in its own way, a moment to rejoice".