Harikrishan (Jayaram) is the youngest son of Thrivikraman Muthallali (Narendra Prasad). His brothers Jayakrishnan and Gopikrishan are uneducated and unmarried. He wants to earn a good living and so sets forth to a Tamil village as manager of a courier company. Hari sees a young Tamil woman named Pavizham who is the daughter of a landlord. The two fall in love and when her father forces her to marry against her will, they elope. But they were caught and presented before naattukoottam presided over by Pavizham's father. Finally her father has no other option other than to allow their marriage.