Punnagai means Smile. Smile which has many feelings and represents many gestures and expressions of life. Punnagai is a narrative of 5 buddies Satya(Gemini Ganesan), Rajan(Muthuraman), Haniff who studied in the identical school, whereas graduating they took an oath in entrance of Gandhi's statue saying they are going to at all times stand with reality. However later they bought cut up as Haniff dies in a automobile accident and every of them bought settled of their occupation the place they should cheat their occupation and ideas. The story begins with three totally different tales (plots) the place because the one buddy (Nagesh)out of 4 explains the story. Will they comply with Gandhi's ideas ?