Sivaji Rao, a Hyderabad based officer is posted in Mumbai to handle a corrupted cop called Pansari. He successfully manages to arrest Pansari but he soon makes bail and makes it his mission to make Sivaji pay for sending him to jail.

The film begins with the young man Sakthivel (Ranjith) coming back to his village. At his return, he is respected and treated as God by the villagers, they call him Thirukkaval. Thirukkaval still hates his father Chettiar (Jaishankar), stepmother Azhamu (