It stars Vijayakanth and Ashima Bhalla,[1] while Sayaji Shinde, Karunas, and Manoj K. Jayan play supporting roles.

After the death of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ganapathy (V. S. Raghavan), the ruling party chooses Narayanan (Sayaji Shinde), a corrupt politician and ex-rowdy, as their new party leader and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

Sudesi (Vijayakanth) is a jobless man who has a master's degree in political science and lives with his mother (Sangeetha) in the city.

The private detective Thilak (Manoj K. Jayan) is assigned by Raghavachari to find Sudesi and the CD.

Narayanan gets praised by the public for his good work and wins the Legislative Assembly election hands down.

[3] Indiaglitz said, "Though the movie is aimed at taking to masses the political agenda of Vijayakanth, debutant director Jeppy A Y deserves some credit for making it interesting with mix of commercial elements like item numbers and stunt sequences.

Though Sudesi resembles Mudhalvan (1999) at few places, Vijayakanth seems to have got his first act right, but still has a lot of work to do with elections around".