The film deals with a joint family, Raghavendra Rao and his wife Rajyalakshmi are paterfamiliases who have four sons and a daughter. The elder son Pattabhi and his wife Janaki look after the house finances and agricultural work. 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 third son Pratap is a bodybuilder who is obsessed with diet & fitness and is not bothered about his wife Rama. The youngest one Prasad studies in the city where he falls in love with a beautiful girl Saroja a doctor. The only daughter is Chandra, and her husband Suryam suffers from night blindness. He doesn't do any work and passes his time lazily by living in his in-law's house. To make things worse, his mother Durgamma always visits the house and creates rifts in the family. Pattabhi & Janaki's goodwill is mistaken as inability and all these people make use of their innocence. Meanwhile, Prasad marries Saroja at this juncture, she enters the family when everybody is in a mess with unnecessary expenditures, arguments, and cheating. So, Prasad & Saroja decide to separate the family and they do so by cheating. The rest of the story is about how they reunite the affections and relations between family members.
