Suresh Krishna

Sathyaa (Kamal Hassan), a young man, along with his friends fights the injustice and corruption in his society. This causes him to lock horns with the corrupt local M.L.A. and his goons. Amala plays Sathyaa's love interest Geetha and the movie has hit songs by Ilayaraja.

Jeeva (Mohanlal), son of dreaded crime lord Vishwanath (Girish Karnad) & a mobster himself, falls in love with & marries village girl Swarna (Prema), by keeping his real identity a secret. Swarna finds out in due course, & gets Jeeva to promise to change his ways, but Vishwanath threatens to not let them be. Complicating Jeeva's plans to leave the world of crime is Suryadas (Prakash Raj), their arch rival, out to avenge his father Rajasekharan (Sphadikam George), who was killed by Vishwanathan.

Vijay is the commander of an anti-terrorist squad. He gets engaged to Tejaswini who is pregnant with their child. Vijay's brother Nandu is psychotic and is in a mental asylum. Vijay takes Tejaswini to the asylum so that Nandu can meet her. In his delusions, Nandu decides that she is his evil stepmother. Nandu, who killed his stepmother when he was twelve, decides that he must kill Tejaswini to protect Vijay.