After the death of his sister, Periyakaruppu vows not to marry and raise his niece, Poomayil. When Poomayil grows up, she finds out about her uncle's sacrifices for her and decides to marry him.

As the soul of the film is communal harmony Artha has been shot in an ancient fort of Gulbarga where people belonging to different communities are living in the same place. The very reason for choosing this location is to portray the past glory and the present fact on the same plane. Though the story of the film is based on a family of North Karnataka, Suresh has not used their local language to make it more generic as this can be story of any region he says.

A software engineer starts hearing a voice inside his head that tells him to go in search of a woman named Jayalakshmi and murder her!

Padayappa, a mechanical engineer whose father gives up his property to his foster brother, and then dies of shock soon after. Neelambari initially loves Padayappa, but plans to humiliate him after his family humiliates her father. The rest of the plot deals with Padayappa overcoming all the obstacles placed by Neelambari.