[1] A forest smuggler named Wayanadan, lives in the jungle and smuggles sandalwood.
He is also involved in other anti-social behaviour and forest crimes like robberies, dacoity, murders and drug peddling.
He consequently kidnaps an electrician, Rahul, and takes him to the jungle, forcing him to teach him to make explosives.
Rahul refuses to help create bombs and is subsequently falsely accused of murder.
The film was originally released in Malayalam in December 1999; later it was dubbed and re-released in Tamil as Thilak with two reshot songs and a comedy track featuring Vivek in June 2004.