
Mariappa orders that Sathyaa and his friends be eliminated. Mariappa also learns about Sathyaa and thinks that he is working for his arch-rival Dhandapani, a social reformer. Sathya falls in love with Geetha Nair, a Malayali woman who works as a salesperson in a cloth shop, and begins to grab public attention, as he and his friends start taking the law into their own hands, thrashing anyone who tries to break the law. In retribution, Rangan and his men humiliate Sudha in public, forcing Sathya to thrash Rangan and destroy his bar.

With this incident, Sathya's life changes as he invokes Rangan's wrath. These ruffians are the henchmen of a local goon named Rangan, who works for the local MLA Mariappa. One day, Sathyaa beats a group of rogues who are thrashing a tea vendor for not paying extortion money. He stays with his father Rajarathnam Mudaliar, who is the sole breadwinner for his family despite his elderly age, stepmother, and stepsister Sudha. Sathyamurthy "Sathyaa" is an unemployed youth who does not tolerate injustice anywhere. A spiritual successor, Dha Dha 87, was released in 2019. The film was a commercial success, running for over 150 days in theatres, it become one of the highest grossing tamil film of the year and Kitty won the Cinema Express Award for Best Villain Actor. A remake of the 1985 Hindi film Arjun, it revolves around an unemployed youth who cannot tolerate injustice in his community. Produced by Kamal Haasan, the film stars him and Amala, with Rajesh, Janagaraj, Bahadoor and Kitty in supporting roles.

Sathyaa is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language gangster film directed and co-written by Suresh Krissna in his directorial debut.
