A young girl, impressed by the crystal clear ideals of a writer, falls in love with him, but ends up losing everything she hoped for as a wife.

Raja and Ashok are old friends, almost like brothers. One day Raja meets and falls helplessly in love with Madhu. A bit later, Madhu and Ashok meet by accident, and Ashok also falls in love with her. It gets further complicated by the fact that Ashok's father was in love with Madhu's mother and continues to carry a grudge against the family.

Anthappuram is a 1980 Indian Malayalam film, directed by K. G. Rajasekharan and produced by BVK Nair. The film stars Prem Nazir, Ambika, Jayan and Kaviyoor Ponnamma in lead roles. The film had musical score by Shankar Ganesh.

Two Adivasi tribes are in conflict for the local economic rights. The daughter of the Nagi tribe's chief, Mala (Vyjayanthimala) vows to kill the son of the Ragi tribe's chief, Sanatan (Pradeep Kumar) as revenge. Trespassing the enemy territory, she is mesmerized by music of a flute (played by the musician Kalyanji Virji Shah). Coming closer, she finds out that the singer is Sanatan. They fall in love, but find it difficult to appease the enmity between the two tribes and to resist the attempts of the villain Prabir (Jeevan) to marry Mala.