

A few days later, at the Madras High Court, the judge declares the verdict in favour of Jeeva and the villagers, but adds that Chirag has claimed that certain villagers who are working abroad have shown their support for the factory. Unaware that Jeeva and Vivek's henchmen are headed for Chennai, Kathir makes efforts to convince the media to bring the plight of the villagers to national consciousness, but the media is not interested as they feel it is not a sensational news. With the help of Vivek, who has heard his story and has plans to kill Kathir in revenge for getting him caught and thrown back into prison, he escapes with Vivek's henchmen. Meanwhile, the real Jeeva gains consciousness and finds himself in the Kolkata prison where Kathir was locked up. After that, Chirag sends 50 men to kill Kathir, but he soon defeats them. Kathir then sends a person (disguised as a hairdresser) to Chirag and makes him lay a fingerprint on Chirag's neck. The people of the old home and Kathir go to the jury and try to convince him to go in favour of them, but Kathir starts stating rules and scares the main jury person (whom Chirag had bribed). On learning of the plight of Jeeva and the villagers, Kathir decides to fight for their cause while still under the name of Jeeva. Jeeva gets arrested by the police, and six villagers commit suicide to bring this news to the media forefront and release Jeeva from prison. However, a greedy MNC owner Chirag cheated the villagers into giving their lands for the construction of a factory.

Jeeva is a communist ideologue and post-graduate in hydrology from the arid village of Thanoothu in Tirunelveli district who had discovered groundwater under some lands of the village which could be used as an irrigation source not only for the village, but for the entire Tirunelveli district and the neighbouring Thoothukudi district.

Under the name of Jeeva, Kathir and Ravi enter an old-age home run by Jeeva with the aim of collecting ₹25 lakhs (meant for the inmates of the old-age home) for their Bangkok trip, until he learns about his doppelgänger's mission. They admit him to a hospital, and Kathir decides to impersonate the injured Jeeva to escape from the police. Later, Kathir and Ravi notice a doppelgänger of Kathir named Jeevanandam being shot by a group of thugs.

However, he drops this plan after meeting and falling in love with Ankitha, who dupes him into believing that she wants to marry him after realising that he is having a crush on her. He goes to Chennai and escapes to Bangkok with his friend and fellow-criminal Ravi. In Kolkata, prisoner Kathiresan, a petty criminal, helps the police capture an escaping prisoner Vivek Banerjee but escapes afterwards.
