The hero who lives in the present day and does every odd job for survival. He is approached for help by a group of youngsters who want to rescue one of their friends from a kidnap. But that kidnap had happened due to mistaken identity.

An orphan gets noticed by a local gangster and is recruited by him. However, trouble ensues as he falls in love with a girl who turns out to be the daughter of the gangster.

The film is set in 1960s Chennai (Madras then). A police officer and a social worker give speech about ban of cigarettes in All India Radio. Then three men get out from a car . They were thieves and were headed by Eli (Vadivelu) a petty thief (who once as