The story revolves around three unemployed people who get involved in a kidnapping saga due to a case of mistaken identity.

Unemployed youth Appukuttan (Mohanlal) saves an heiress Chandra (Sukanya) and is mistaken for her husband. His juice vendor friend (Sreenivasan) also enters the fray and pretends to be Chandra's "husband" at her father's factory, while Appukuttan plays the same role in the hospital