They meet the Minister (Sayaji Shinde) who is extremely nice to them and promises to help them. Swapna (Reema Sen) is a model who stays in the same area and she lusts after Arumugham. He sets out for the city with Easwari and her grandmother and they stay with Arumugham's friend (Vivek) and gang. A chemical factory in the village pollutes the local river and when all attempts to stop the factory waste from going to the drinking water falls flat, the villagers decide to send Arumugham to Chennai and meet the concerned minister who has won from their constituency. Easwari (Jyothika) is his childhood friend. Wong follows the instruction and discovers his own unique style of Drunken Boxing, which he eventually uses to defeat Yan and become the new Drunken Master.Īrumugham (Vikram) is an uneducated, good hearted, helpful village hick.
Wong confesses that he did not master the last style so Beggar So tells him to combine the seven styles and create his own version of the last style. Yan then resorts to his secret technique, the Devil's Shadowless Hand, which Wong is unable to defeat. Wong employs the new skill he learnt and outmatches Yan's kicking style. Beggar So promises not to interfere in the fight. Wong and Beggar So arrive on the scene on time and Wong continues the fight with Yan. Wong's father fights with Yan and is defeated and injured by him. Meanwhile, Yan Ti San is contracted by a business rival to kill Wong's father. Wong masters seven of the eight styles with the exception of Drunken Miss Ho's as he feels that her style of fighting is too feminine. The training resumes and soon Wong learns Beggar So's secret style of martial arts, a form of Drunken Boxing called "The Eight Drunken Immortals", named after the eight mythological figures that the fighting style emulates. He makes his way back to Beggar So and decides to commit himself to the Drunken Master's training program. Wong provokes and challenges him to a fight and is soundly defeated and humiliated. Yan is known for his "Devil's Kick", a swift and deadly kicking style which has "never been defeated". (known in some versions as Thunderfoot or Thunderleg). Wong flees again to avoid the torturous training and runs into the notorious killer Yan Ti San by accident. (Beggar So is known in some versions of the film as Sam Seed, So Hi or Su Hua-chi)īeggar So forces Wong into his brutal and rigorous training programme. The drunkard turns out to be Beggar So, the Drunken Master. An old drunkard nearby is drawn into the fight and helps him escape. He fights with the owner's lackeys in an attempt to escape. As he was about to leave after his meal, he discovers that the man is actually the owner of the restaurant.
Penniless, he stops at a restaurant and tries to con a fellow patron into offering him a free meal. Beggar So has a reputation for crippling his students during training so Wong flees from home in an attempt to escape his punishment. Wong's father arranges for "Beggar So" So Chan to train his son in martial arts. His father decides to punish him for his behavior by making him train harder in martial arts.
Lastly, he beats up a hooligan who is the son of an influential man in town. Next, he makes advances on a woman to impress his friends, and is soundly thrashed by her older female guardian as a result his shame is compounded when these two are later revealed to be his visiting aunt and cousin, whom he had not met before. Firstly, he teaches an overbearing assistant martial arts teacher a lesson. The plot centers on a young and mischievous Wong Fei Hung (sometimes dubbed as "Freddie Wong").