Patnavasam is a Telugu drama starring Krishna and Vijaya Nirmala. Gopi (Krishna) is an illeterate villager, lives with his mother. Gopi's father sent to jail on a false case of murdering his best friend. Gopi becomes the saviour of his father's best friend's daughter (Vijaya Nirmala ). Gopi comes to know that his father is in jail. How he takes the revange on culprits? How he re unites wth his strayed sister?