The next day, each man decides to go his own way in search of a job and both agree to meet up in the evening to share prospects.

Velu manages to enter the service of Kailasa Mudaliyar who is a building contractor and eventually becomes his personal servant.

Meanwhile, Pazhani gets a job at a hotel and eventually starts to develop feelings for his boss's daughter Savitri.

Although Pazhani picks up the knack of living in a city, Velu remains the same old innocent fellow, loyal to his employer.

The next day, Mudaliyar rushes the businessman to make a quick deal with a buyer; when he seems too nervous to do it, he sends Velu instead to deliver the remaining gold worth Rs.

When they trace the car back to Mudaliyar, he pretends innocence and tricks Velu into owning up for the crime.

While Velu is lamenting in prison, Mudaliyar has started an Export Import business through which he gains fame and riches.

Gomathi and Velu pose as a poor, slum-dwelling daughter and father (Muniamma and Mari) to Sukumar.

Velu incognito as the lawyer, pays Mudaliyar a visit and coerces him into accepting his son's marriage with Muniamma.

He approaches Madhavi posing as the slightly retarded Basavappa with the veterans acting as his parents.

Madhavi takes a genuine liking for the innocent Basavappa and lets her father know about her intention to marry him.

He later returns in the thick of night and tells Mudaliyar that he accidentally killed Velu and shows a severed head as proof.

He reports this back to Mudaliyar, who approaches the actual rowdy Rakkappan and arranges for him to kill Velu.

Madhavi who hears about this plan appeals to her father to see reason that Velu had not actually harmed him and was only demanding the share of money due to him, albeit in a different way.

When his daughter-in-law Gomathi reaffirms that she is a graduate from a respectable family, he realizes that Velu had indeed not done anything wrong and sets out with his daughter to stop Rakkappan.