Ranga Rao (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) a breezy & jovial guy well-known as Poola Rangadu whose livelihood is pulling a horse cart and loves his associate Venkatalakshmi (Jamuna). In the childhood, his father Veerayya (Chittor V. Nagaiah) used to work as a manager at a mill, owned by Purushotham who is slaughtered by his partners Dharma Rao (Gummadi) and Chalapathi (Gummadi).