Producer: Omar Sherif
Director: Lohithadas
Cast: Vinu Mohan, Bhama, Nedumudi Venu, Athulya, Aparna, Seethalekshmi, Sreehari, Vijayanthi, Prabha Dutt.
Music: M Jayachandran

The story notches with a brief on the life of Mohana Krishnan (Vinoo Anand), a candid brahmin fellow who takes up carpentry work to fend a living for himself and his widowed mother and sister. He was the son of noted dramatist C.K. who spent his entire life fighting for the rights of writers. After his father’s early demise, Mohana managed to pursue his education related to arts till secondary level. But circumstances forced him to drop his education and earn a living. Supported by one of his father's associate lyricist Kaithapram, who happens to spot him in a creative sitting, Mohana Krishnan enters the Kovilakom, headed by Ramavarma Thampuram, a religious elderly man who was a cherished student of Chembai Vaidhya Natha Bhagavathar.

Mohana Krishnan was looking for a job in Kovilakom but couldn’t get one because of his financial crisis. But after the health of the head priest in Tharavadu temple started to detoriate, Ramavarma Thampuran appointed him to assist with the religious affairs within the temple. Although he wasn’t well acquainted with mantras and rituals, the old priest provided him with the basic guidance and assigned him the rituals of the temple while keeping the administrative function for himself.

After Mohana joins as the assistant priest, the fate of the temple brightens. He works day in and out for the welfare of the temple. In the meantime, he catches the eyes of many young girls and especially Satya Bhama (Bhama), an orphan who lives with her grandmother and earns a living by selling papad.

Satya Bhama lives in constant fear of her distant relative Surendran, a crook who wants to marry her. Whenever Surendran visits her, she seeks shelter in the temple. Eventually she starts visiting temple each night and her recurring visits end in a love affair between Mohana and Satya. But like all love stories, they too have to face the trial of time.