Mayamruga

The story is about five middle-class women who are trying to maintain a balance between their personal lives and principles

Malavika is a middle class born woman rights activist who dreams of an ideal society with equality and liberated women. When she finds an ideal man in Krishna Prasada who is her professor, she marries him by opposing her family consisting of Father Narayana Murthy, Elder Brothers Shreedhara & Ranganatha, younger sister Vidhya. When she questions the illegalities in the business matters of her father-in-law Mohana Murthy and his business partner Shivaji Rao; her father-in-law along with his wife Radha, tries to separate her from his son. How do she deal with these situarions, yet supporting her family is her story[4]

"Shreelakshmi" along with her siblings Shyama and Sharade lives with her parents Lakshmi Narashima Shastri and Kamalamma. When Shreelakshmi gets a modelling offer from Dev Kumar's company, her orthodox father Shastry will not let her to do that. One day, one of Shastri's disciples Raghunanda comes to Shastri with a proposal of marrying Shreelakshmi and becomes a sanyasi on the engagement day itself. Because of the determined nature of Shastri, all of his children leave home in search of their destinies and Shastry will also depart his home along with his wife Kamalamma when he encounters a quarrel with his brother.[4]

"Brunda" is a middle class girl who intends to find a job to support her aging father Soorappa, whose street watch repair business is not doing well and whose earnings are insufficient to support the large joint family in which she lives, comprising her mother, jobless elder brother Hari, younger brother, younger sister Harini and distant relative Mukunda. Brunda's father also wants to get her married and most of her arranged marriage proposals are cancelled because she is jobless or beause of her sister Harini, who goes missing from her house. She secretly marries a man named Suresha against his family's wishes. The story revolves around how she copes with the situations around her.

"Dakshayani" is a close friend of Malavika and is pregnant, unfortunately her husband has died and she is under the care of her brother-in-law Sadananda and his wife Sarala. Sadananda is in greed to inherit all the family property to his son Sachidananda rather sharing with Dakshayani and her child. Sadananda & Salara try to malign Dakshayani of having extra-martial affair and try to kill her in order to execute the inheritance. Sadananda also happens to be Government Special projects chief engineer who has authority to control Malavika's father-in-laws business. How Dakshayani with support of Malavika even though Sadananda's pressure on her husband and inlaws and with support of Shreedhara deals with such circumstances is part of the story.

"Vidhya" is a polio handicapped girl who is younger sister of Malavika. She struggles in life to find a job due to her disabilities. Meanwhile she gets honey trapped by a jail return goon forgery Rajeeva, he makes Malavika persuade her family to consent their only house to his name in leu of marrying handicapped Vidhya, story revolves how Vidhya balances her family and husband's illegal forgery dealings.