Dorai (Arjun) is a do-gooder don. But a police force led by ACP Easwara Pandian (Prakash Raj) and his sidekick (Sathyan) are after him. However, the poor need him as he is a Good Samaritan running an orphanage. He has help from his friends (Manivannan and Vadivelu). But Dorai has a problem. His mother (Sujatha) doesn’t approve of his ways. She feels that he is just a loutish goon. There is also Anjali (Mallika Kapoor), a TV journo, who is in love with Dorai because of his dare devil ways. Dorai has a past too. He was just an honest-to-goodness school teacher, who ends up as the deathly Dorai after a fire ravages a school and kills several children. The incident forces him to take on the system of venal officials and politics. Now, Dorai’s biggest task is to nip a dark and dire politician who wants to bomb the city. The rest, as they, is all cinematic clichés.

A slum boy, who steals from the rich to help the poor, keeps scheming against a powerful man. After he finds a magical lamp, which the man had been seeking, he thwarts the man's attempts to abduct him.

Deva starring by vijay and swathi. Deva (Vijay) and Bharadhi (Swathi) are two lovers. He's the son of Manorama and brother of Mansur Ali Khan. She's daughter of Sivakumar, who is the village head. Manorama is fully in support of her son to get married to Swathi.Sivakumar refuses to give his daughter's hand to him because his brother does not have a good reputation in the village. But then he realizes that Deva, unlike his brother, is a good guy. In the end, the lovers overcome all problems and get married.

Rasappan (Sathyaraj) is a useless fellow who loves his sister's daughter Meena (Meena), a graduate girl. Their parents decide to engage them but Meena refuses to marry with a jobless groom. Rasappan challenges them to find a decent job. His uncle (Goundamani) advises him to become a MLA. Rasappan joins Paramasivan's party, Pramasivan (Manivannan) is convinced by his motivation. Meanwhile, villagers dissatisfied of Paramasivan politics, they encourage Velusamy (Vijayakumar) to contend at the MLA election. During the election, Rasappan asks the electors to vote for Velusamy and Rasappan wins it widely. Rasappan becomes an honest MLA and helps his village people, he convinces the villagers to deposit their money in a new bank. The bank manager, Paramasivan's relative, scams Rasappan and the villagers. Rasappan is immediately sent in jail because of Paramasivan's plan. Villagers burn Rasappan's house and steal his properties.

A story of three young friends who are unemployed and stricken by poverty finding it hard to make ends meet. They are endowed with the never-say-die spirit and refuse to heed their parents advice to look for menial jobs. They continue to pursue their dreams no matter what comes. The shadows of these youngsters can be found abundantly in our society.

Chellaiya is at loggerheads with his uncle Masilamani and his two sons for backstabbing his father. Things take a turn when Chellaiya's brother and his wife grow closer to their uncle's family.

Raja, a witty and fearless young man, becomes entangled in a conflict with a corrupt industrialist while trying to protect his family, friends and the woman he loves.

Sakhti moves to Chennai in search of a job but lands himself in trouble when a CBI officer chases him for a series of murder committed by his lookalike, Kannan.

Even though Maayan and Machakanni are deeply in love with each other, her brother decides to get her married to someone else. So, Maayan's friends resolve to unite the couple.

A doctor becomes an instant heartthrob after making an appearance in a movie and soon marries a woman. But just after their marriage, the truth about his past is revealed, which leads to complications, taking the couple a step closer to divorce.

Padmanabhan has earned the nickname Budget as he is a miser. However, he struggles to save his father's house from money lenders as his wife is a spendthrift and never lets him save enough.

Sakthivel, an influential man, is upset with his son Chinnarasu's careless attitude. He is further infuriated when Chinnarasu suddenly refuses to marry his cousin, Gowri.

Parthiban, a young marketing executive, discovers that the woman he has fallen in love with is the same one that his parents want him to marry, but, he learns an unexpected truth.

Prabhakar and Bhavani are deeply in love with each other. However, lovers turn enemies when Prabhakar's father is falsely accused of killing Bhavani's father.

An ambitious and unscrupulous man becomes a major politician, but his illegitimate son is posted as an inspector in his constituency and vows to stop his brutal activities.

A man is working on a project with a smart professor whose daughter starts to like the man. During the legislature elections some mysterious killings take place. It's up to the guy to trace the killer.

Sridhar and Preeti begin to like each other, but part ways without confessing their feelings. Over the years, they search for each other in vain while fate keeps working its own magic. The film was also simultaneously shot and released in Telugu with a slightly different cast as Nee Manasu Naaku Telusu.

Red is a local don who possesses a heart of gold. Seeni, another don in the area, is his biggest enemy. Red falls for Gayathri and she too likes him but wants him to give up his life of violence. Meanwhile Rajesh, a reporter, begins to serialize Red's story for Ananda Vikatan and it becomes quite the rage among readers.

Pailey, a stuntman, goes back to his village as he gets severely injured in an accident. He sees his villagers struggling due to many problems and decides to help them, which puts him in trouble

Two college students, the slum child Raja and the dean's daughter Roja, chat with each other over the Internet and fall in love. However, Roja is engaged and Raja cannot bear to disrespect her father, to whom he owes his livelihood.