The film, starring Mammootty and M. R. Gopakumar, explores the master-slave relationship in a South Karnataka setting.
[1] Thommy, a migrant labourer from Wayanad, Kerala, comes to Patellar's town in South Karnataka for survival.
Once recovered, Pattellar takes Thommy to catch fish from Temple Pond, which is a blasphemous act.
Yusuf, Kuttaparai, and several prominent members of the town decide to kill Pattellar and ask Thommy's help.
The film is a cinematic adaptation of the novel Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum by Malayalam writer Paul Zacharia.
Zacharia happened to hear the stories of Patelar when he was residing near Shiradi village Mangalore in Karnataka.
[4] Producer: - K. Ravindranathan Nair evolution of two characters, representative of the transformation of terror into power and its hold over the life of the existentialist outsider.