Manchi Kutumbam

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Venu Gopal Rao a wealthy person leads a happy family life with his ideal wife Shanta and eight children and his widowed elder sister Seetamma, nephew Pandu stays along with them. He spends four days of the week for work and halts on the weekend for his family. Venu Gopal Rao's elder daughter Kamala marries Gopi, on a condition by Gopi's father that the couple must live separately until the completion of his son's education. But once, Gopi arrives without his parents' knowledge and spends some time with Kamala. Meanwhile, two other college-going daughters Mala and Nirmala, fall for two handsome men Mohan and Shankar respectively; Pandu loves Station Master Bhushanam's daughter Bala and the elders fix their alliance. During the time of engagement, a young lad Chinna lands at their house claiming himself as Venu Gopal Rao's son, and conveys that he spends weekly five days with them. Venu Gopal Rao accepts it and reveals his second wife and family. Listening to it, Shanta and her family are devastated and the engagement breaks up. Now everyone accuses Venu Gopal Rao including his family, one thing led to another, Kamala's father-in-law warns him to drop her in their house and he does so.