Kunjoottan, Sreenivasan, is a gullible man living in the Kerala countryside, the sole heir to wealthy aristocratic parents Thamburan and Kunjulakshmi, portrayed by Nedumudi Venu and Sukumari. His overprotective father, haunted by a nightmare he treats as prophecy, worries about his son’s fate after the family astrologer Panikker predicts that Kunjoottan will scarcely reach age 30 and is prone to motor vehicle accidents. To shield him from danger, Thamburan surrounds Kunjoottan with two aging attendants, two ex-mahouts: Kuthiravattam Pappu as 'Valiya' Raman Nair and Mamukkoya as 'Cheriya' Raman Nair, a setup that only irritates the young man further.
Kunjoottan’s childhood friend Ramachandran, Jayaram, returns from town with thrilling stories of city life and a mounting debt from a failed business. He tricks Kunjoottan into helping him steal money from his father’s vault so they can vanish to the city and enjoy life in the city lights. By the time Kunjoottan realizes his friend’s true intentions, he has already lost all his money to wily city tricksters, and Ramachandran’s loyalty begins to waver as his innocence pulls them both deeper into trouble.
The trouble takes a darker turn when the two men kidnap a girl named Asha, Suparna Anand, whose stepfather M.R.C, Thilakan, has hired three men to kill her. After learning about her sad past, Kunjoottan and Ramachandran find themselves drawn to help her instead of abandoning her to her fate. Asha’s plight sparks a moral test for the pair, and the violence surrounding her grows even more menacing as the situation unfolds.
To make matters worse, Asha’s father hires a professional killer named Christopher Luke, Suresh Gopi, to end her life. The price of safety for Asha and the tangled loyalties of Kunjoottan and Ramachandran lead to a spree of comic mishaps, mistaken identities, and near misses that keep the tension light while the danger remains real. The killer’s trail eventually brings Inspector Abu Hassan, Jagathy Sreekumar, into the pursuit, and his entrance injects a fresh wave of humor and suspense into the chase.
In a climactic sequence that blends slapstick with resolve, the killer is finally apprehended by the police, bringing a welcome sense of order to the chaos. Through it all, Kunjoottan’s relationship with his father undergoes a quiet recalibration, culminating in a reunion that reaffirms family bonds and the value of home. The film leans on warm performances and a steady rhythm to explore themes of trust, generosity, and the pull between city temptations and rural roots, delivering a story that is at once humorous, tender, and distinctly rooted in its setting.
