A romantic drama telling the tale of two lovers, Sakhi(Madhavan) who is from is a family which is very traditional and Priya(Sadha) who is from a cosmopolitan and very outgoing family.
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
Subramani poses as a goon to evict bachelor tenants from a Brahmin’s house but instead helps one of them kidnap his lover from her marriage. However, chaos ensues when he kidnaps the wrong girl.