Nachiappan College is considered to be one of the worst colleges of ; everyday violence erupts between two final-year groups. The students are influenced by the local bigwig Beeda Settu ( ), who sells to the students and basically rules the college from outside. The first group is led by Sudhakar ( ) whereas the other one is led by Kalaiarasan (Bhanu Prakash). The college management and the police get tired of that situation. They decide that they need to change the principal. The vice-principal, Chandran, dies to sit in that post but the college management asks the successful Shanmugasundaram ( ) to take the post. His daughter Shobana will study in the same college. The rest of the story is how Shanmugasundaram succeeds in his mission. The success of the television serial facilitated Chozha Creations’ re-entry into the film industry and they gave the serial director the opportunity to direct . Except and , most of the cast was new like Bhanu Prakash and . The music was composed by Bala Bharathi, with lyrics by . The film completed a 100-day run at the box-office. wrote “Debutant writer-director Chelva has taken up a subject with which he does not seem to be familiar”. After the film’s success, Vijay added as his prefix.