The film begins with two headmen of neighboring villages, Meesaala Venkaiah & Bhadraiah, conducting wedlock of their progeny, Devasimha & Sujatha.

Parallelly, another marriage takes place in the village; peasant Sriramulu knits his daughter Lakshmi with Subbaiah, son of the henpeck Devaiah & shrew Chukkamma.

Ergo, Subbaiah teaches her a lesson with a play, reunites Lakshmi with her family, and relieves their pain.

However, Rama Rao's intentions were not fruitful, forcing him to revert to the folklore genre with Jayasimha (1955) for commercial success.

He then wrote a story based on dowry as a menace and himself directed the film, titled Varakatnam produced under his home banner, Ramakrishna & NAT Combines.

The parallel plot features Suryakantham as the "sharp-tongued" Chukkamma, Relangi as her meek husband Devaiah, Padmanabham as their son Rangaiah and Chandrakala as the couple's daughter-in-law Lakshmi.

[2] During Krishna Kumari's first day at shooting, a scene required her character Sujatha to cry before her mother's photo.

Several of his fans gathered up at the location to witness the shoot, and when the number increased, policemen had to interfere to control them.

Amidst all this, Nagaich was tasked with shooting the film without showing anyone from the crowd of fans, and managed it successfully.