The movie begins with the search for an actress Anjali (Sonia Agarwal) by a scribe (‘Punnagai Poo’ Geetha). Once a sought-after heroine, Anjali vanishes one fine day and efforts to trace her ends in vain. The journalist manages to locate her after several hardships. Cut to flashback, the travails of Anjali is revealed. Anjali is the daughter of a poor folk artiste Devarajulu (‘Yogi’ Devaraj) in Andhra Pradesh. One day, her mother resolves to make her an actress and comes to Kodambakkam. The mother and daughter climb every stairs and go around every studio in Kodambakkam and Vadapalani. They meet with failures everywhere until they are forced to agree for casting couch. One compromise on the part of Anjali bags her heroine’s role. She fortunately makes it big. The nature of her mother changes… She becomes greedy and runs madly behind money. Anjali is exploited by few in the industry. Unable to tolerate all humiliation, Anjali decides to take extreme decision in her life.

Nari is a dubbing version of Malayalam Movie Roudram. Nari (Mammootty) is the Assistant Commissioner who is given the charge of investigating a murder that happened outside a lodge in Fort Kochi.
The deceased was supposed to have connections with the ganja planters of the state. During the course of the investigation, some bigwigs including his superiors and political masters come under police scrutiny. The rest of the film shows how Nari overcomes the hurdles and teaches everyone involved, a lesson.