Directed byK. B. Tilak GenresDrama ActorsSharmila Tagore, Rajesh Khanna, Nirupa Roy, Shashikala, I. S. Johar, Tarun Bose Rating60% Radha (Sharmila Tagore) was the only daughter of a rich merchant. She suffers from epilepsy, triggered especially by the removal of little doll she always carries with her. Madhu (Rajesh Khanna) was a young doctor, practicing in a village. He lives along with his older brother Shriram (Tarun Bose) and sister-in-law Sita (Nirupa Roy). Local unqualified medical practitioner, whose business got a big hit by the practice of Madhu, begrudgingly arranges match between Madhu and Radha, hiding her illness. Madhu marries her without knowing the problem she has.
Madhu also called Chinnababu (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) a zamindar's son is very gullible who every one laughs at. One day he meets a girl Vasanthi (Jamuna) who stays in a portion of his house. Vasanthi becomes very friendly with Madhu and behaves very close to him as she sees Madhu just as a brother and nothing else where as in Madhu mistakens Vasanthi's friendly nature to love. One day Madhu has to leave to Chennai for higher studies. He writes letters but he never get any reply from Vasanthi to any of his letters. When he comes back he finds out Vasanthi and her family left the city without telling anybody. Madhu finds a letter from which he realizes that Vasanthi only saw him as a brother. He gets very depressed and falls sick. Seetha (Savitri), Ramakrishnaiah (Gummadi)'s daughter takes care of Madhu by taking care of his health and giving him company. The whole story is how he recovers from the depression he faces because of Vasanthi.
NTR and Jaggayya are brothers. They are very rich. Savithri gets married to Jaggayya, the elder of the two brothers. Jaggaya has all bad habits - drunkard, gambler and visits his mistress Vijayalalitha every night. NTR is considered a mischievous person. The story is about how Kodalu Savithri suffers for half the film and takes care of everything in the house in the second half. Vanisri is daughter of their servant. NTR falls in love with her.