 Suicidal youth SSR is found half-dead on train tracks by Sivaji Ganesan, who nurses him back to health and helps him get a job. Friendship between the two strengthens, but problems appear once SSR marries a Maharashtrian girl and the three live under the same roof. In a parallel plot, SSR s simple-minded young sister (KR Vijaya) is slandered by a local hoodlum (MR Radha), and thereby repeatedly turned down by suitors for being a woman of loose character. The situation calls for the rescue-capable shoulders of Sivaji! Wholesale melodrama, ridicule of North Indians, and some gratuitous hugging between men (which seems to have been the norm back in the day, in Tamil cinema)