Velu is a waiter at a holiday resort in Chennai. He wants to make enough money to pay for his working permit to work abroad. However, he has had a traumatic childhood. After the death of his parents, his uncle and aunt sent him to boarding school, where he is initially bullied. In order to survive in the new, harsh environment, he learns to fight to protect himself. As a young adult, he moves to the city to start a new life. As poor, single young men, Velu and his roommate Tirupathi face lots of hardships in the city. They eventually meet Muni, an agent for an underground fight club. After seeing Velu win a fight at a bar, Muni introduces him to the ruthless owner of the fight club, Natwar Dada. Velu slowly rises up the ranks and becomes one of the city’s best underground fighters. Velu then meets a girl Kavya and plans to stop fighting in order to be with her, but he needs to make enough money to escape his current life. Muni also needs money to get his house back. Together, they hatch a plan to rig Velu’s next fight with Victor, the city’s top underground street fighter.