Rajeeva comes to the village to visit his sister only to find that she's in financial trouble and has lost her husband. He decides to stay and help her out.

Rajeeva (Rajkumar) comes to visit his sister (Adeevani Lakshmidevi) only to find her husband dead and the family in need of financial help. After their elder brother (Loknath) leaves without providing any help, he decides to stay with his sister and help her out. With help from the village head and family friend Rachutappa (Balakrishna), he gets back the family-owned land and starts cultivating it. He also sends his sister's two sons, Keshava (Vajramuni) and Chakrapani (Srinath), to the city for higher studies and also helps a friend of theirs with education. He resurrects 25 acres (100,000 m2) of land that were left out by the villagers as barren land, and becomes rich. He is in love with the neighbor's daughter (Bharathi Vishnuvardhan), whom he plans to marry eventually. The two kids complete their studies and are married off, one of them to his brother's daughter. Now the downhill starts, with his wife dying in an accident and one of the sister's sons questioning his loyalty. Eventually he walks out on the family without a trace.—Girish