[1] The film had a successful run and still gets good TRP whenever aired on TV channels.

Madan (Kamal Haasan) is a dancer by profession who is a dream boy of all young girls.

One night he gets into her house with a face mask which makes Kalpana to misunderstand that he is a thief and screams and alerts her home.

Madan, who is a son of pickle businessman Ooruga Ulaganathan (V. K. Ramasamy) rescues him from police custody and finds the reason for incident to be his love for Kalpana.

Kalpana's father, who is a psychiatrist, finds that Madan is the son of his old friend Ulaganathan.

Kalpana's father considers it as a normal disturbance and asks him to go for a vacation to some place.

At a point he stops in front of a monument, where he gets illusions of some Karate competition and a man participating in it.

Kalpana's dad advises her to take care of him and make him sleep when his acts go wrong and unresistible.

Upendra, a businessman of Nepali origin and son of a Tamil woman (Pandari Bai) meets Devi on his birthday during a dance performance as a part of celebration.

But the marriage is objected by her selfish uncle Rajadurai (Satyaraj) at beginning, but later he agrees, on the condition that Devi must inherit half part of Upendra's will.

Madan explains Devi that Upendra has not died by any accident but actually killed by Rajadurai who pushed him from the Cable car.

[4][5] The song "Engey Endhan Kadhali" is set in a mix of Abheri and Kharaharapriya, along with Sankarabharanam in the later stanzas.