Plot

In a village near Tiruvannamalai, the gifted student Sakthi (Rithik) is from a poor family and his widow mother Lakshmi (Vaman Malini) runs a roadside food stall. Sakthi secures the state rank in plus two exam and he wishes to continue his studies but his family conditions and poverty compel him to give up his dream. During a television interview, Sakthi tells about his dream and the government then helps financially Sakthi to pursue his studies. Sakthi joins a prominent college in Chennai and he stays in a lodge with his new collegemate Kottachi (Kottachi). Sakthi gets acquainted with a group of three bad students in the college and he starts taking drugs and drinking liquor. In the meantime, Sakthi befriends his collegemate Nivetha (Varshini) and falls in love with her. When Nivetha comes to know about Sakthi loving her, she rejects him stating the difference in their status. One day, the bad students take advantage of Sakthi and they even steal his money, therefore, he cannot pay the college fees. Failing in life and in love, Sakthi decides to hang himself in a remote forest but before, he conveys his decision through an audio cassette and sends it to his mother by parcel. At that point, the press reporter Raj (K. Bhagyaraj) comes across him and saves him from ending his life. Raj, who is a skilled strategist and manipulator, even promises him to solve all his problems. Raj first blackmails Nivetha to disclose about her love affair with Sakthi to her family and asks her money to buy his silence. With that money, he could pay the college fees of Sakthi. Raj then intercepts the audio cassette with the help of the police. Meanwhile, Nivetha accepts Sakthi's love. Later, Sakthi saves the three bad students who had stolen his money from being expelled from the college and they apologize for their mistakes. Sakthi passes the exam and he eventually marries Nivetha.