The series depicts socio-political events that led to the rise of one of the most dreaded gangsters of Kanchipuram in the 1970s called Mugilan.

Mugilan, a boy from Kanchipuram starts off as an accountant to Mudhalaiar , an arrack dealer. He rises to the stature of a don. The story starts in the present time and cuts back to early 2000s. Mugilan murders three important people and flees to Dubai with his family. He operates from Dubai to counter every action taken by DSP Rajendran. Mugilan's life is a classic example of things going wrong when taken the wrong path in life and how power and money can be a toxic combination.—Devdeepa Mukherjee