Nanda (Shivarajkumar) owns a canteen in the college and given his age and maturity, he is referred to as senior by all the students and they take his advise on various issues. In all this, there is one girl who goes by the name of Kavya (Sandhya) who is in love with him since Nanda helps in getting her sister married.Nanda falls in love with Kavya but as fate would have it, he tends to fall on the wrong books of Kavya
Dyan's relationship ends when his girlfriend, Monalisa, dies in an accident. In order to fulfil his parent's wishes, he marries Spandana, who turns out to be an exact lookalike of Monalisa.
The story of the film was adapted from a play of the same name written by well-known writer Girish Karnad. The movie was directed by award winning director T.S. Nagabharana, who is deemed to be one of the ace directors in Kannada film industry. Music was scored by C. Aswath and Srihari L. Khoday produced the movie. The film touches one of the most sensitive issues of marital life. In folk style and form, the film throws open a question as to who is the husband – the person who marries an innocent girl and indulges in self pleasures or the person who gives the real and complete experience of life. G.S.Bhaskar, and his work is a visual thunder in this movie. Especially the night scenes & interior scenes are spellbounded. Bhaskar is a famous technician; he used contrast lighting in this movie, that clearly gave the touch of folk life in every frame.
Chapala Chennigaraya is a 1990 Indian Kannada film, directed by H. R. Bhargava and produced by M Rajagopal and Suresh Kumar. The film stars Kashinath, Kalpana, Vanitha Vasu and Sundar Krishna Urs in lead roles. Music of the film was composed by Rajan-Nagendra.
Akshay escapes from prison and hides in Sudha's house where he finds a dead body. Sudha confesses that she killed her husband and later narrates a story explaining the reason behind her crime.