A young man Ramesh Kamal Haasan returns from overseas He arranges a marriage with Kasthuri Sumithra and marries her In a subplot Rameshs secretary Menaka Fatafat Jayalakshmi marries Ravisankar Vijayakumar an artist at nearly the same time The spouses in each pairing are very different from each other and have great problems understanding each other This movie explores whether either pair can make a good marriage together