
When his senior finally graduates, he makes Dinakaran the next 'route thala.' Dinakaran takes his responsibility very seriously and is soon both respected and feared by all the students in his college.

He becomes less sociable and is always involved in fights and other problems.

Dinakaran's life takes a sudden turn as he mixes with the wrong group. He is taken under the wing of an overprotective senior, who is the self-proclaimed underground student leader whom everyone refers to as 'route thala' or designated don of a route/street. He finally passes his English test and enrolls into the local college. He learns martial arts to protect himself and impress the girls, but nothing of that sort works out.ĭinakaran finally gives up on falling in love and concentrates on his studies. He then gets beaten up by the boys at a neighboring village for following two of their girls. Unfortunately, she turns out to have fallen in love with his elder brother. Dinakaran next starts wooing a distant relative who comes visiting at his house. Dinakaran tries to feel sad, but he cannot since he was never really in love in the first place. But when he goes after her, she suddenly refers to him as 'elder brother' and tells him to stop following her around as she feels awkward. She appears to like him too as she smiles at him and accepts his gifts. Rather than studying for the second attempt, he wastes time looking for a girlfriend since he has made a pact with his best friends to fall in love and get married.ĭinakaran first falls for a girl he meets at the bus stop named Poornima. He did well in his school exams, but failed his English paper.

Dinakaran referred as Atta among his friends is a regular semi-urban teenager growing up in a small village in the outskirts of Chennai.
