Seeing this notice, Adiseshayya, his son, and Laskhmi's parents come to Hyderabad just before Sujata's marriage. Lakshmi with consent from her husband files a suit against Adiseshayya to surrender his son, Murali to her since she paid for him during her marriage to teach Adiseshayya a lesson. After marriage Lakshmi leaves to Sujatha's place where Murti arranges for a marriage between Sujatha and Rao. Left without a choice, Adiseshayya who had dreamed of getting a lot of dowry since his son is a doctor, accepts the proposal with very little dowry. Murali threatens his father with suicide and forces his father to let him marry Lakshmi. Back home, Lakshmi (Tulasi), younger sister of Sujata, falls in love with Murali (Subhalekha Sudhakar) who is the younger son of Adiseshayya. Rao, who is in a senior post in Allwyn, hires Sujata. Left with no choice, Murti takes Sujata to Hyderabad and meets Rao (Arun) whom he had met during the latter's stay in the hotel where Murti worked. Adiseshayya retaliates by hiring goons to beat up Murti and also gets him dismissed from his job. Murti creates a big ruckus during the felicitation function of Adiseshayya and humiliates him. Adiseshayya also dismisses Sujata from her job.ĭuring this difficult phase, Murti, as a friend, provides solace to Sujatha their relationship is mistaken as an affair and Sujata is forced to leave her home. This creates a rift between Sujata and her parents who fear that this act of Sujata might ostracize them from society. During this Sujata stands up and has an argument with Adiseshayya when the latter demands exorbitant amounts as dowry. Mohan (Girish), who is an engineer and elder son of Adiseshayya, comes to Sujatha's place with his father for a marriage proposal. He meets Sujata (Sumalata), a lecturer who works in a college run by councillor Ankela Adiseshayya (Kaikala Satyanarayana). Narasimha Murti (Chiranjeevi) is a multi-talented person who works as a waiter in a star hotel since he is unable to pass his B.A. Viswanath followed up with this film in which he dealt with the social malady of the dowry system. After making Saptapadi, in which he dealt with the social stigma of caste system, K.
The film was made at a time when Chiranjeevi had started getting lead actor roles and followed the immensely successful film Intlo Ramaiah Veedhilo Krishnaiah. It was the first time they worked together after this success they went on to make two more movies: Swayamkrushi in 1987 and Aapathbandhavudu in 1992. Shubhalekha (Telugu: శుభలేఖ, English: Wedding Invitation) is a 1982 Telugu film which stars Chiranjeevi in the lead role and was made by K.