| Director | K. R. Prabhu |
|---|---|
| Genre | comedy film |
| Country | India |
Lalgudi Karupaiah Gandhi (LKG) is a councillor from Lalgudi, Tiruchirappalli and belongs to the ruling party. He aspires to quickly achieve big in politics, unlike his father Azhagu Meiyappan, who neither achieved fame as a politician nor made substantial money. Avudaiyappan Mudhaliar, the incumbent Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and ruling party chief, falls ill and is hospitalised, while Bojappan, the party general secretary, becomes the interim CM. Since Avudaiyappan is the MLA from Lalgudi, LKG decides to put all efforts to contest in the by-election on behalf of the ruling party once Avudaiyappan dies.
LKG feels he needs to create some media visibility to get into Bojappan's good books. He receives the paid help of Sara M. Samy, an employee of V Analytica, an MNC involved in election strategy formulation. LKG goes to Delhi to protest and create an awareness against diseases, which gets media attention. Finally, LKG gets Bojappan's attention and meets him at party headquarters in Daryaganj. Within a week, Avudaiyappan dies, Bojappan becomes the new CM, and a by-election is scheduled in the Lalgudi constituency. Bojapan urgently announces that LKG is the by-election candidate at the party's general body meeting. Most of the party members and ministers disagree with Bojappan's decision.
The ruling party's deputy-general secretary Ramraj Pandian, who was abroad when Avudaiyappan died, comes to the meeting hall, furious and betrayed by Bojappan's actions. He reminds him that he had been elected as MLA from Lalgudi, his hometown, in a hat trick for the last 17 years, and only relinquished the seat because of Avudaiyappan's personal request in the previous general election. He announces that he will contest in the election as an independent candidate, and once he wins, Bojappan will be expelled from the party and government, while he becomes the new CM.
LKG realises the hardships of contesting in the elections. He understands that people favour Ramraj because of his strong influence, hard work, caste, and image. Most of the state ministers, ruling party bigwigs, and MLAs do not work for LKG as they want to remain neutral to join the victor of the by-election. LKG devises a strategy to tarnish Ramraj's image with the help of meme creators and his sidekicks. He spreads rumours that Ramraj is actually a woman disguised as a man, which results in the public trolling Ramraj on social media. Ramraj is also insulted when he is unable to sing "Tamil Thai Valthu" during a college function. Ramraj discovers that V Analytica is behind LKG and strikes a deal with Sara to support him.
Per Sara's advice, Ramraj goes to Delhi and meets the national ruling party leaders. He also tries to break the ruling party of Tamil Nadu and prevent Bojappan from taking all the party MLAs to a resort. It is revealed that Sara was actually pretending to be on Ramraj's side. She returns to help LKG, but a tussle comes within the party, while some senior party leaders do not want LKG to gain fame. However, Bojappan favours LKG. During the election, LKG wins against Ramraj, but Bojappan gets arrested in corruption cases, and LKG becomes the CM-elect due to Bojappan's efforts.
The next morning, LKG is at the podium to be sworn in, but is shot by a sniper. However, he survives as he was wearing a bulletproof vest, having anticipated such an incident. LKG tells the media that he is in to bring change and that he has transferred the corruption cases against Bojappan to the CBI. He also says numerous educated youngsters are contesting in elections independently to bring change, but they go unnoticed by the public because of big political parties staying in the limelight. The sniper is convinced, and the entire state believes in LKG. However, Sara smiles upon seeing LKG; he is just becoming a corrupt politician through his speech, trying to woo the public, which was her strategy as well to win people's hearts. Also, LKG silently reveals that he never intends to bring Bojappan out of prison.