Prakash (Akkineni Nagarjuna), a carefree, mischievous student graduates from College. During his celebration with his friends, he gets into a road accident. Although the accident is only minor, during medical tests, he is diagnosed with terminal cancer and has a few months to live. Unable to hear his mother’s constant wailing, he packs his bags and leaves to his family’s vacation home in Ooty.
There, he meets Geetanjali (Girija Shettar), who enjoys playing pranks on people around her. In one incident, Geetanjali asks a guy to meet her near a church after sundown to elope with her. When he comes to meet her, she along with her sisters and friends play an elaborate prank by dressing up as ghosts to scare him away. When she tries to pull the same prank on Prakash, who is already aware of this, it backfires as he pulls a bigger prank on her by dressing himself as a vampire and along with aerial wire stunts, scares her.

Sivappu means red in Tamil and signifies love, anger, poverty or death. The story showcases the life of construction labourers in the southern part of Tamil Nadu.

The film begins outlining the sour relationship between the two villages, Singampatti and Puliyampatti. Seema Raja (Sivakarthikeyan) is a jobless youth from Singampatti, born in a family with a long lineage of brave people; the main one being King Kadambavel (Sivakarthikeyan). He does good things in the village for likes on Facebook and pays other villagers to treat him with respect. He hangs around with his sidekick/accountant, Kannaku (Soori).
The principal from a nearby school invites Seema Raja’s father (Napoleon) to the awards ceremony at the school. However, due to his father’s busy schedule, Seema Raja offers to go instead. Here, he meets Sunthanthira Selvi, a sports teacher and a Silambam expert and immediately falls in love with her. He then goes around following her, trying to court her.

A fearless income tax officer raids the mansion of the most powerful man in Lucknow after someone mysteriously draws his attention towards the evidence.

A youngster takes revenge on four boys who killed his father.

Set in a tropical resort, it follows the exploits of various guests and employees over the span of a week.

An educated do-gooder is forced to enter politics in order to serve society. But, will the old guard make way and allow him to do that?

Before dying at the hands of a criminal, a police officer swears that he will return as a reincarnation to seek revenge. Consequently, fate brings together his twin sons who were separated at birth.

A staid doctor’s monotonous routine is shaken up when a gangster who is on the run decides to hide from the police in his clinic.

A village strives to overcome the rivalry between two ancient factions.

The film’s story revolves around three cousins Arjun “Ajju” (Arya), Kannan “Kutty” (Bobby Simha), and Divya “Ammu” Raghavan (Sri Divya), who share a close bond since their childhood. Kutty is a software engineer whose heart and soul is back home in his village. Ajju, whose parents are divorced, is a bike mechanic who lives his life on his own terms. Ammu has completed her B.Com and aspires to do her MBA from IIM but is compelled to get married to workaholic corporate executive Shivaprasad “Prasad” (Rana Daggubati) because of her family astrologer’s dire predictions. After their wedding, Ammu moves to Bangalore as Prasad is settled there. Kutty too relocates to Bangalore for his job, while Ajju joins a biker gang as a mechanic in the same city.

A gang of notorious criminals go about looting houses, raping and murdering women. Chalapathi, a brave and brilliant police officer, sets out to capture the gang and bring them to justice.