[2] The film deals with a joint family; Raghavendra Rao and his wife Rajyalakshmi are paterfamiliases with four sons and a daughter.

The second son Prakasam is involved in village politics and wastes time & money therein, and his wife, Jaya, is a shrew who doesn't contribute anything to the welfare of the family.

The youngest one, Prasad, studies in the city, where he falls in love with a beautiful girl, Saroja, a doctor.

To make things worse, his mother, Durgamma, always visits the home, creating rifts in the family.

Meanwhile, Prasad marries Saroja at this juncture, and she enters the family when everybody is in a mess with unnecessary expenditures, arguments, and cheating.