When a smuggler kills his sister, a naive, immature man (Rajinikanth) vows to deliver justice for her death and joins a martial arts school. He trains hard there to become a master fighter, honing his fighting skills. Taking on a new identity, Paayum Puli (Pouncing Tiger), he sets off for revenge, but the affection of a beautiful woman (Radha) soon puts a hitch in his plans. Manorama, Silk Smitha and Jaishankar also star in this action-packed movie.

A rich estate owner is killed by his second wife and her brother Aadimoolam (Radharavi). The estate owner’s son Raja (Rajinikanth) returns from the USA and learns of this. In order to bring the culprits to book, he makes his friend Sethupathi (Janagaraj), a rickshaw puller, act as Raja. But soon, Aadimoolam learns of this and kills his own son and frames Raja as the killer. Raja is sentenced to death. In between, Raja loves Senkamalam (Radha), sister of an employee in his estate. in the same village where Raja lives, there exists his lookalike, Chinnaraasu (Rajinikanth again), whose aim in life is to wed his sweetheart Lakshmi (Nadia). Raja escapes from jail, meets Chinnaraasu and makes Chinnaraasu take his place in jail. After many twist and turns, Raja brings the culprits to book. At the end, Raja marries Senkamalam and Chinnarasu marries Lakshmi.

The film commences with friends and family of an ailing village head, Malaichami (Sivaji Ganesan), gathered around him on his death bed. The plot then moves along in a series of flashbacks, featuring significant episodes of the dying man’s life. These include the presence of a boatman’s young daughter Kuyil (Radha) in his village. The protagonist is unhappily married to a shrewish wife by the name of Ponnatha (Vadivukkarasi), and seeks comfort and solace in a friendship with Kuyil. The friendship raises eyebrows, and is socially awkward and complicated for both Malaichami and Kuyil.

The film revolves around Kathavarayan (Karan), who sells illicit arrack in Hogenakkal. Though he is involved in arrack trade, he is a man with golden heart. Malathy (Vidisha), a student, comes to the village as part of her NSS project. She vows to end the arrack menace in the village and takes efforts to arrest Kathavarayan. Thanks to her efforts, Kathavarayan gets arrested and lodged in prison in Chennai.
Call it fate, Malathy is arrested for no fault of her in Chennai. Her efforts to expose drug-pedlers in Chennai backfires. They hatch a conspiracy and Malathy falls a prey to it. She gets arrested for possessing drugs and lands in prison.

David is a serious fan of a politician. But the politician is a fraud, On seeing Mary, David’s wife, he devises a plan.He sends David onto jail and in the meantime rapes Mary.When David comes out he is shocked to see his wife hanging and she has a letter in her hand.Angry David goes to see the politician, buts he gets cheated by the politician and 2 of his friends. He was sent to jail for 22 years. He hands over his son to Janakaraj. When he comes out after 22 years he sees that his son has become a police man. But he wants to take revenge on the 3 people responsible for his wife’s death. How he takes revenge on them without his sons support is the climax.

Gopikrishna (Murali) owns an old bus which was received as compensation for his father’s road accident. Gopi is now facing lots of consequences due to the bus’s pathetic condition. He had sold many valuable things to maintain this bus, and his friend Azhagu (Vadivelu) was his only companion and the bus’s cleaner. A mouse had eaten Azhagu’s passport and spoiled his chances of going abroad. Some part of the film’s comedy involves Azhagu running behind the mouse for revenge. A live TV show in which Gopi insults the City Traffic Commissioner (Vinu Chakravarthy) lands him in more trouble when the latter commands Gopi to leave the city with the bus. His other friends, advocates, and well-wishers try to help him with a bank loan to run a mobile kitchen (Tattukada) from his bus. The plot took a turn when a girl named Vasanthi (Radha) enters the bus as a nomad, but she was actually Gayathri, the daughter of an influential and politically powerful minister (P. Vasu) in Puducherry.

A Hindu boy and a Christian girl fall in love with each other, but their religious differences cause many problems.

Pasupon, right in the heart of the Tamil campaign. Marudhu (Vijayakanth), farmer with a big heart, stays the up its elder sister Vallikannu (Srividya) married to a good-for-nothing, Chinnukaruppandevar (Goundamani), as well as his niece, foster daughter, beautiful Pandhimeena (Radha). Because one day, Meena, accompanied with her mother, asks for an explanation to the one who deceives with his father, this one throws her of out of the house. Marudhu returns her in guaranteeing that she is from now on her partner. Inveterate amateur of poker, Chinnukaruppandevar loses all its lands with the Machiavellian Bairava (Radha Ravi). At the end of a fight with the latter, Marudhu takes advantage of this event to set the record straight to his brother-in-law. However, the disturbing piece of news of the cholera rages around. Sandhiya (Rekha), doctor, who preventively wanted to inoculate the farmers, is repulsed by Marudhu and his friends. He is taken at the post of police for disorders to the service to the public. Sandhiya returns in the village, firmly decided to continue, defying the ignorance and the inhospitality of the inhabitants. Marudhu continues to putting obstacles in its way to her, by burning the tent where she sheltered. The doctor sets to keep her cool. This is when bursts a violent thunderstorm. Marudhu was eaten up with remorse, he returns to look for Sandhiya to put her under cover. The next day, he puts him a new tent. The young woman, sensitive to all these attentions, eventually falls in love with the farmer and mutually. Marudhu learns by Gowryshankar, the sad episode, where Sandhiya had to be her daughter-in-law and finally it did not come true because his son left in the lurch them at the last moment. Since the old man denied him and set under his wing Sandhiya. Marudhu promises to him at this moment, when she will be his wife, to the immense happiness of this one. But Meena surprises the lovers without their knowledge. Later, Marudhu explains to Meena and to her elder sister, the tragic past of Sandhiya and cannot thus start again, at the moment its word. Sandhiya would not support a new sentimental failure. Discouraged because lover also and for a long time, from her part, Meena pretended to poison itself and asks as ultimate wish before dying, of being the wife of Marudhu. What realizes the farmer and discovers right after that, the trickery. Trapped, he summons the assembly of the wise men of the village which cuts in favour of Meena. Complaining very often of violent headaches which Meena handled with casualness, the specialists diagnose her very fast a brain tumor. She is condemned in the very short term. Only at the beginning, Marudhu is in the confidence, not even the concerned knows. Marudhu tries to behave “normally”. He informs Sandhiya who, then, does the same with the sister of Marudhu there. But in front of the misfortune which strikes them, each makes a step towards the other one. Marudhu which did not speak anymore with her sister, becomes reconciled. Chinnukaruppandevar égoïte still not for so long that it, metamorphoses into good man. Marudhu fulfills all the desires of his wife Meena. At the time of giving up the ghost, he makes him understand that he likes by recognizing, by confirming that she is her wife. The burial of ended Meena, Marudhu turns to Sandhiya to admit him that he can never love another woman so much the memory, the music of his Meena, it are profoundly printed in him.

Rajinikanth is an auto mechanic and brother of Vijayakumar who works in Jaishankar’s estate as a clerk. The movie portrays the events dealing with the clash between Rajini and Jaishankar. Radha is the love interest of Rajini and Y.G.Mahendran provides the comic relief. The movie was a big hit at the Box Office.