Table 12

Polish Jewish woman arrives in Brazil dreaming of marrying but has to become a prostitute to survive. At the same time, sanitarian doctor Oswaldo Cruz comes back to Brazil after three years in Paris, where he had studied in the Pasteur Institute. He's full of ideas on how to change Brazilian public health, which is being threatened by yellow fever.

In Gundragovi movie protagonist Kummi (Sathya) is a ruffian. He is a vagabond - a person with no earthy ties (meaning of Gundragovi). He is with four friends in the village. The gang steals properties like hen, coconuts, vessels and their business is to drink stomach full of arrack and sleep like idiots. They have no work to do and they are pooh-poohed by the villagers. Kummi is feared for his muscle power but he is good at heart.For such a careless and useless guy Kummi finds a child abandoned. He picks the child and when he finds the police siren he puts the child in the hands of Madhu (Navyasri). Baffled with this Madhu inevitably brings the child to the home and gives the required food. The very next day she traces Kummi and handover the child. Kummi gets a job as protector.

A seven-year-old spends time happily with his father and step mother. But with the birth of a new baby in the family, he's unable to tolerate the competition for parental love, and kills the newborn.