The film stars Prem Nazir, Madhu, Srividya and MG Soman in the lead roles.

Haridas meets and falls in love with Malathy, who lives opposite his house along with her father, Pillechan ashan and her mother Janki.

When Pillechan ashan finds out that Malathy and Haridas are in love, he forbids her to see him, but subsequently relents when she takes poison.

After some time Haridas has been specially appointed by the government to catch dangerous, deadly criminal Padmanabhan who is the leader of a bandit's gang, once they stop a wedding party bus on the Bombay-Poona Highway, loot, sexually molest females, and kill several passengers, Haridas is successful in arresting one of the gangsters, a Hotel Manager named Gunda, who colluded with the bandits, but Advocate Ghaswala defends him and gets him acquitted, resulting in the killing of the only eye-witness, a 10-year-old boy.

Now Vijay decides to take revenge against Padmanabhan and his gang, he eliminates them one by one and finally, surrenders him to the judiciary.