Prabhu, a swindler, pretends to be in love with Pooja, a wealthy businessman's daughter, to steal an expensive diamond. He soon meets Pooja's sister, Indu, and realises he is attracted to her.

A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.