Ramadasu is a wealthy and mild-mannered man. Santhamma is his aggressive, petty-minded and controlling wife who always ill-treats her daughters-in-law, the widowed Ramani and the devout Lakshmi, who is married to Santhamma's second son Raju. Gopi, the youngest son, is a bachelor, and the daughter Chitti leaves her husband Simhalu, to live with her parents.
