What is it that drives an otherwise sane and God fearing government officer like Venkatachar to lie? Would it be the fact that despite being the older of two sons, his brother is more successful - financially and otherwise - than him? Is it because he sees a question in his kids' eyes every time his brother's family comes over and they show off their 'city commodities' with shameless grandeur? Or is it that his incorruptible self refuses to go past his father's ideals even when he sits in an office surrounded by money hungry vultures who swoop in for the kill the moment they see an unsuspecting rat venture out into the heat? What is it? And the day he does mouth that lie...what are the consequences he has to live with? Is he caught and demonized for the villain he has inadvertantly become? Or does he slip off without the notice of anyone - including his wife?
Venkat the liar, is a tribute to the vulnerable situations in which honesty and sincere hard work sometimes faces serious ordeals. It is a look at people like Venkat - the ones who are always looking at others and wondering if they are somehow not doing the right thing - only to be faced with the only enemy such people have. Conscience.