Venkat (Gautham Karthik) hails from Myanmar's Rangoon, which is presently Yangon. He lives as a Tamil Burma repatriation in a neighborhood called Annai Sivagami Nagar also known as Burma Nagar in Ennore, Chennai. His family, in search of livelihood, has migrated from his birthplace, Myanmar, to this neighborhood of Chennai, his homeland, where many such Tamil-Burma repatriates live.