The plot begins in a remote village in Tamil Nadu named Pannaipuram (the birthplace of director Venkat Prabhu). Samikannu (Premgi Amaren), the son of a Karaga (festival) artist named Karagattakkarar (Shanmugasundaram); Vinayakam (Jai (actor)), the son of a military man named Manickam (Chandrasekhar (Tamil actor)); and Ramarajan (Vaibhav Reddy), the son of the local bigwig and the village casanova are three rebellious youths who try various attempts to flee their village and see the outside world but are usually caught and punished by the conservative elders. After being punished harshly, they attempt one last escape and succeed. The trio runs away to the town of Madurai, hoping to stay with Vinay's friend Azhagar.