Ramachandran and Tulsi are brothers who come from a family of thieves and con men. They decide to con the daughters of a wealthy cloth merchant but all does not go as planned.

After Ranga Rao fixes his daughter Mahalakshmi's marriage with Dhorababu, an honest man, she reveals that she had fallen in with a man named Kishore. Soon, Dhorababu goes looking for Kishore.

Venkat and Shailaja meet on a train and fall in love. But Shailaja's father disapproves of their relationship and decides to marry her off to Bhadranna, a ruthless landlord, who is obsessed with her.