The film is a socio-centric story of education system that existed in the period 80's - 90's in Kerala. Divakaran, in search of a good job acquires fake certificates from Mysore TTC and becomes a teacher in a government aided lower primary school run by a corrupt manager.
Mohanlal
as Diwakaran
Menaka Suresh
as Sujatha
Jagathy Sreekumar
as Nanu Mash
Sreenivasan
as Vijayan Mash
Nedumudi Venu
as Kunjan Nair
Mamukkoya
as Koya
Sukumari
as
Kunjandi
as Govindankutty Mash
Innocent
as MLA
K.P.A.C. Sunny
as Nambiar
Paravoor Bharathan
as Karyasthan
Jagannatha Varma
as AEO