Vadakku Vaasal

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In a remote village, the carefree college student Murali (Karthik Kumar) lives with his parents, his sister and his brother-in-law who run a liquor shop. Murali befriends his college mate Priya (Rithana) and they eventually fall in love with each other. Priya's brother Pandian (Kamalesh) and Priya's father Ramasamy (Sethu Vinayagam) are against their love. The situation degenerated as Murali gets arrested by the police for being in love with Priya. Thereafter, Pandian and Ramasamy arrange Priya's marriage in a hurry with a poor man belonging to their caste at the village temple. Murali kidnaps Priya just before the marriage and the lovers elope from the village. The matter sparks riots between villagers. The local politician Annamalai (Livingston) and the police inspector Alex Pandian (Anandaraj) try their best to calm the situation. The two lovers arrive in Chennai and live with Murali's friend Ramakrishna (Pandiarajan), a man crippled by debt. Murali starts working in a petrol bunk while Priya stays alone at home all day. To support Murali, Priya decides to find a job but a pimp tries to misbehave with her and she is mistakenly arrested for prostitution by the police. The kind-hearted Bhai (Alex) comes to her rescue thus Priya gets released. Bhai decides to help the lovers and finds them another place to live. Later, Bhai convinces them to return to their native village. In their village, Bhai, Annamalai and Alex Pandian convince the villagers to put their caste fanatism aside and to support the young lovers. Murali and Priya first want to finish their studies and find a decent job then they will get married.