Naanum Oru Penn

S.S.Rajendran(SSR) and AVM Rajan are brothers. They are rich and motherless. Their father S.V.Rangarao prefers fair daughters-in-law for their house. But fate strikes in the form of Vijayakumari (who is dark complexioned and an illiterate) who steps in as SSR's consort.

Whether she is approved by SSR's family and how she manages to survive there forms the rest of the narration.