Indrans as Subhadramma's nephew and karate champion is not only an important ally to the young lovers but also provides many hilarious moments with Kalpana's cameo as his love interest. Jose Pellissery plays the panchayath president, and together with Bobby Kottarakkara as the local teashop owner provide comic relief. The film also has a brilliant ensemble cast typical of Malayalam movies of the time. In the climax, Aniyan Thampuran is beaten - literally and figuratively - and Subhadramma gives her blessings for Shivankutty and Parvathy's union. However, Lakshmi and Subhadramma are kidnapped by Aniyan Thampuran's thugs, and the eloping lovers are forced to return. Parvathy and Shivankutty elope with the help of Lakshmi, Premachandran, and Narayanankutty. Aniyan Thirumeni conspires to scuttle the festival with the help of hired thugs, but he is thwarted in the attempt by Shivankutty and gang. Now that she knows the whole story, she is obligated to marry Aniyan Thampuran, and the date is set to coincide with the temple festival. Even when abandoned by her philandering husband, Subhadramma takes pity on her now-orphaned stepdaughter and adopts her. Subhadramma demands to know the truth, but Narayanankutty decides to leave in shame instead. Parvathy is Narayankutty's illegitimate daughter, whose mother commits suicide when Narayankutty refuses to accept her or the child. Parvathy refuses, and Subhadramma reveals that only Lakshmi is her biological daughter. Aniyan Thirumeni ( Ajay Rathnam) convinces his elder brother and wife to approach Subhadramma for Parvathy's hand, both because he was once spurned by Parvathy and also to settle a score with Shivankutty. The townspeople decide to approach Narayankutty, who has returned to the village as a rich man, with a request to sponsor the festival. That altercation escalates into a full-blown rivalry when the two clash again over funds for the annual temple festival. Meanwhile, Aniyan Thirumeni, the younger of the Thirumenis - a womanizer and a goon - gets into a fight with Shivankutty over unpaid electrical bills at the former's flour mill. He hasn't been heard from since, and Subhadramma wants to ensure the same fate doesn't befall her daughters. Subhadramma recounts the story of how, as a young woman, she fell in love with and married a lineman Narayanankutty ( Janardhanan), but he left her 18 years ago. The story takes off from there and is set in the backdrop of the local temple festival and the reason for Subhadramma's attitude towards her daughters' suitors. Both girls are Premachandran's students, and he develops a crush on the younger girl Lakshmi, while Parvathy and Shivankutty fall for each other.
Shivankutty decides to move in with Premachandran, who rents a house next door to a feisty lady named Subhadramma ( Zeenath) who is aggressively protective of her two teenage daughters Parvathy and Lakshmi ( Annie and Anju Aravind). Shivankutty reconnects with his old friend from college Premachandran ( Premkumar) who teaches Malayalam at a local parallel college, owned and run by the town's most prominent family, the Thirmuenis.
The townspeople are overjoyed that they finally have someone to repair the town's frequent electric outages. Shivankutty ( Mukesh) arrives in a town as its new lineman, an employee of the electricity company.