Murthy (Prashanth) earns his residing taking the blame for the errors of different individuals and the jail is his second dwelling. Dhanushkodi (Raghuvaran) has sworn to kill ex-collector Ramanathan's (Vijayakumar) son and so, Ramanathan has transferred his son Santosh (Pravinkanth) to Mauritius whereas telling the world that he has ran away. Wishing to avoid wasting his son, he hires Murthy to behave as his lengthy misplaced son, hoping that Dhanushkodi would kill him as a substitute of his precise son. Murthy too accepts the gig since his lover Preeti (Jyotika) is Ramanathan's niece. Within the climax, Santhosh helps Dhanushkodi for killing his father, However Dhanushkodi kills Santhosh. The movie ends with Murthy taking the blame for killing Santhosh and surrenders himself to police.
