Ramu, a poor boy and an avid reader, works hard and saves money to buy his favourite book. But, situations drive him to take a hard decision when his family members suffer in cold weather.

Ganesha lives happily in a complex owned by Ramanamurthy. Things take a turn when he falls in love with Adilakshmi, the youngest daughter of Ramanamurthy who sings under the pseudonym Shruti.

Shabdavedi is about Sandeep Rajkumar, a strict police officer crusading against narcotics. The man is so straight that when his wife Jaya Prada refuses to reveal the identity of a key link in the drug ring that he is investigating. He beats her in lockup. Eventually he overcomes all the usual attempts to throw him off the chase like tarnishing his reputation and implicating him in lock-up death cases and tracks the ring down to its last man.

Ravi loves Vatsala, his sister's step-daughter. However, his sister wants him to marry her own daughter, Nagaveni, and fixes Vatsala's marriage to another man against her wish.

Ravi Shastry, a barber's son, pretends to be a Brahmin to secure a livelihood. His wedding to Bhanu, the Brahmin community head's daughter, is stalled when his bluff is called.

Mohan and his wife, Leela, are the leading lawyers. Trouble brews in their marital life and careers when Mohan defends his past lover who murdered her husband.

A tantric terrorizes a village called Ramadurga. A man comes to the village to know the mystery of his birth. He learns that his grandfather was killed trying to save the village from the tantrik and he defeats him.