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Gopi is a mild-mannered arts and crafts teacher at the Bytarayanapura school. He is soft-spoken and modest, often ridiculed by his neighbor for his low earnings. The daily routine sets the stage for the disruption to come.

Ex-radio host Pruthviraj schemes to stage a government protest to gain social media fame. He enlists Ayan, Neha, Gurudev, and others who join in hoping for attention. The plan hints at a dramatic confrontation, not a peaceful demonstration.

The four activists decide on drastic steps to press the government into meeting their demands. They agree to take hostages and pressure officials, despite lacking a coherent policy platform. Their plan sets the film's central crisis in motion.

Gopi reaches the school and finds teachers unenthusiastic about teaching the children. He tries to bring life to the classroom with origami and storytelling, only to be interrupted by the approaching activists. The stage is set for the hostage situation.

Gopi recalls visiting Nagaveni's house with his late mother to ask for her hand in marriage. Nagaveni's father rejected the match due to Gopi's education. The memory reveals the personal stakes behind Gopi's current longing.

The four activists hijack the school under cover of a hostage situation. Gopi becomes the translator between the captors and the CM's secretary, attempting to avert chaos while the plan lurches toward absurdity. The incident unites the personal and political stakes in one location.

The CM's secretary initially treats the event as a joke, but a selfie of the hijackers with a gun makes the danger undeniable. The seriousness of the situation becomes a political headache ahead of elections. The secretary decides on a quiet, forceful response.

News anchor Komala covers the incident, but her boss pressures her to broadcast meaningless updates rather than the real hostage crisis. The media becomes a pawn in the political game, shaping public perception. Komala's frustration foreshadows a later resignation.

The secretary, seeing the election implications, orders a secret agent and his elite team to eliminate the hijackers. The quiet, covert intervention shifts the conflict away from public view. Meanwhile the participants remain ignorant of the larger political calculation.

As night falls, the hijackers realize their plan yields no real gains and begin to escape. Pruthviraj grows increasingly agitated, clinging to his fragile hope of fame. The plan's collapse becomes imminent.

Komala secretly records what happened but resigns after her boss blocks her from airing the footage. The film cuts to the personal cost of misinformation and corporate control of news. The incident reveals the media's own complicity in political theater.

The elite team ends up at the wrong school, leading to Pruthviraj shooting Gopi in the back. The chaotic moment collapses the attempted quiet ending, and an ambulance carries Gopi and the hijackers away. The violence is framed as the culmination of a day of ridiculous actions.

All parties go home in the ambulance while the hijackers formally apologize for the hijacking. Gopi thanks the secretary and proposes improvements for the government school. The crisis ends with reluctant compromises and a sense of closure.

The film closes with the activists having mended their ways, but Nagaveni ends up marrying someone else. Gopi remains hopeful yet unfulfilled, hinting at personal growth born from the ordeal. The final image shows a community trying to move on from the spectacle.