Adhe Kangal is the story about a ghost "Nagavali" (Bharathi). The story begins with a couple returning from a movie theatre. On the way back, their bike tire bursts. As it is midnight and in the middle of a highway, the couple decide to take a short-cut to reach the town. They pass a particular place where an old man warns them to return as this place is haunted by the ghost "Nagavali". The couple don't listen to the old man, and they continue to go that way. Meanwhile, two men notice the lovers, and try to rape the girl. She suddenly changes her voice to sound like a ghost and scares them, they ran away. It was not the ghost, but the girl who, to save her boy friend and herself, acts this way to frighten those men. But when those men reach the particular place, Nagavali kills them both. This story continues, revolving around the family of the girl, and the financial and personal problems they face, along with the story of this ghost.