Thalla? Pellama?

The story begins in a village where a wise woman named Ramanamma raises her two sons, Prabhakar and Sudhakar. Soon after the wedding, Prabhakar acquires a job but then quits, neglecting his family. Ramanamma strives hard to civilise Sudhakar. Years later, Sudhakar enters college and confronts the dirty politics of a moneybag, Rao Bahadur Nambitonda. Therein, his daughter Padma adores Sudhakar’s ideals and loves him. Padma knits Sudhakar without her father’s acceptance; however, she cannot acclimate to poverty nor her husband’s priority toward his mother. Hence, she detaches him from his mother, which Ramanamma also insists on. This causes Sudhakar to forge as a gambler and drunkard. His nephew Krishna learns about his grandmother and decides to live with her. Ramanamma, on her deathbed, is overjoyed to see Krishna. Later, Padma becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy, but Sudhakar splits the baby from the mother. Thus, Rao Bahadur files a case where Sudhakar proclaims that it is a play to convey genuine motherly affection when Padma pleads for pardon. After Ramanamma dies, they now live in her place, including the now-bankrupt Prabhakar. Music was composed by .