Fact1: editor fails to publish true happenings of society in newspaper, Fact2: village works as maid in Rajarathinam 's house, Fact3: Vairam and Kaalai stand up against Raja demanding higher wages for workers employed by Raja, Fact4: Gautam and Arundhati After leave Raja 's house incident, Fact5: group of villagers led by Kaalai gather outside Raja 's house
Output: Gautam, a photo journalist with revolutionary ideas, leaves his job as his editor fails to publish the true happenings of the society in their newspaper. One of Gautams friends suggests him to organize an art exhibition to showcase his paintings. During the event, he happens to meet Arundhati, a Bharathanatyam dancer, who is keen to stage a classical ballet on Nandanar, a tenth century dalit saint. Gautam suggests Arundhati to present it in a folkart form rather than a classicalart form like Bharathanatyam to which she agrees. Gautam and Arundhati travel to Kilvenmani, a village in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, to meet Thambiran, an aged exponent of Theru Koothu, a common folkart form in Tamil Nadu. Gautam and Arudnhati both stay at the landlords Rajarathinam house. In the village they happen to meet various characters – Vairam, a tea shop owner, his pregnant wife Valli, their daughter Amudha, Kaalai, a blacksmith, Pakkiri, a mad minstrel, and Papathy, a village belle who works as a maid in Rajarathinams house. Gautam and Arundhati become more attached with these characters. Vairam and Kaalai stand up against Raja demanding higher wages for workers employed by Raja. Gautam and Arundhati happen to meet Thambiran who agrees to help them stage the ballet. An angered Raja tells the police that Vairams teashop has encroached the temples land, and orders his henchmen to destroy the shop. Kaalai provides shelter to Vairam and his family. Gautam, on seeing the injustice being done to Vairam, talks to Raja for which the latter advises him not to interfere in this issue. Papathy wishes to be photographed and approaches Gautam for which Rajas henchmen attack him. After this incident, Gautam and Arundhati leave Rajas house and take shelter at Thambirans house. While researching Nandanars biography, Gautam gets a new perspective for the story based on the events that take place in the village and develops a story based on Rajas cruel acts. In the meanwhile, Rajas goons abduct Vairam. A group of villagers led by Kaalai gather outside Rajas house. Gautam approaches Papathy to join the protest against Raja and asks her to reveal the whereabouts of Vairam. Kaalai and the villagers rescue Vairam after Papathy lets them know that Vairam is kept at Rajas rice mill. As the villagers protest demanding higher wages, Raja employs workers from nearby villages. When Vairam and Kaalai try to stop the workers, Raja arrives with a group of policemen. Kaalai beats Raja and gets immediately arrested for the act. A lawyer bails out Kaalai and ask them to take police protection to which they refuse. Vairam and Kaalai are attacked by Rajas henchmen while returning to their village during which Kaalai gets killed. With the help of the police, Raja labels Kaalai as a Naxalite to get the case closed. On hearing this, the villagers refuse to cremate Kaalai, but Vairam cremates him outside the village. Meanwhile, Raja files a complaint against Gautam, Arundhati and Vairam on a false pretext that they have stolen his possessions and attacked his mother. Arundhati gets saved by one of the villagers when Rajas goons try to molest her. The goons also set Kaalais hut on fire, but Pakiri saves Vairams family. He along with Vairam fight Rajas goons and kill them before being arrested by the police. The whole colony gets burnt. The following day, Raja is seen walking happily on his fields. Papathy, who confronts him, hugs and stabs him to death.