 Ramankutty (Jayaram), a teacher in the village school is known as "salperu" (i.e. good reputation). Ramankutty s uncles- Narayanan (Janardhanan), Madhavan (Jagathy Sreekumar), Velayudhan (Laloo Aalex) and Shankaran (Manianpillai Raju) are in a competition to get Ramankutty to marry their respective daughters. Ramankutty agrees to marry his uncle Velayudhan s daughter (Karthika). Madhavan s daughter Sangeetha (Gayathry Jayaram) arrives from Mumbai and seeing her, Ramankutty changes his mind. On the eve of the marriage Ramankutty s reputation is shattered. Life becomes hell.