A small-town criminal constantly clashes with his strict school headmaster father at the expense of their family lives.

 

The story of a ‘Tiger’ who turned an ambitious teenager into Aadu Thoma, a rowdy worth just an ‘otta kaal anna’

Though Mohanlal’s character Aadu Thoma is as macho as his Neelakandan, Jagannadhan, Induchoodan, and Karthikeyan, or perhaps even a little more daring than any of them, Spadikam is far more than the films that depended solely on the mundu-clad, moustache-twirled hero.