Ramesh, nicknamed Rummy (Nagarjuna), loves his childhood friend Janaki, who asks him to become rich and powerful before marrying her. With this motive, Rummy starts gambling and becomes rich in no time.
When an intelligent young man's childhood sweetheart advises him to become wealthy and powerful before proposing marriage to her, he decides to accumulate as much wealth as quickly as possible. Delving into illegal gambling activities, he becomes extremely successful. How will his childhood love react to his choice of profession? How long will he succeed in escaping the long hands of the law?—cinekatta