Karthik Subramani (Siddharth (actor)) is a short-film maker and aspires to make a feature film. He participates in a talent search program (like ''Naalaya Iyakkunar'') and is in the semifinal round. The show's two judges include a highbrow film director Mukil (Nassar), who trashes Karthik's attempt at filmmaking, and a profit-oriented producer Sundar (Aadukalam Naren) who riles against Mukil, and declares that Karthik made the best film among the contestants. Though Mukil eliminates Karthik from the contest, Sundar offers to produce a film with Karthik as the director, and both the judges storm out of the show. The next day, Sundar is annoyed that Karthik took his words seriously and came to meet him. He is uninterested in the script that Karthik wants to film, and instead suggests that he wants to make a gangster film along the style of Nayakan, Thalapathi, The Godfather, etc. Karthik takes this suggestion to heart and sets his mind on documenting the life of a gangster and making a film script out of it.