However, unlike their previous ventures, Chanakya Shapatham was a critical and commercial failure.

Chanakya, a customs officer at an airport, is the son of a Military Major who is about to be awarded Padma Shri for his services.

Faced with humiliation, Chanakya challenges the villains of proving his father's innocence and bringing the culprits to justice.

Shashirekha, an airhostess who works with Chanakya, who has problems with her sister's family, for her mother-in-law always threatens for more dowry.

The rest of the story deals with how both of them fight for their causes in settling their professional and personal issues and come out successfully to be united in the marital knot forms the story.