Gopi is brought up in a juvenile home, as he accidentally commits a murder.
He lands in the same village, where his brother Raghu lives and works as a government officer.
Ironically, both Raghu and Gopi do not know the true identity of Swaminathan.
[5] The film failed commercially because fans of Ramachandran could not digest seeing his character dying and considered it anticlimactic.
He said the film's ending not only made him understand the actor's dominance, "but also that one could not say things that are in contradiction with people's sentiments".