Three educated but unemployed youth who have come to live in a bustling, harsh metropolis struggle to earn a living.
Stream
Social & External
The people behind it
Kamal Haasan
Sundaram Rangan
Sridevi
Devi
S.Ve. Sekar
Thambu
Poornam Viswanathan
Sundaram Pillai
Prathap Pothan
Prathap
Dilip
Dileep
Oru Viral Krishna Rao
Devi's Father
Thengai Srinivasan
Rangan's Saloon Customer
Prathapa Chandran
(as Pratap Chandran)
Barani
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