Thene Manasulu is a Telugu drama starring Krishna, Jaya Prada and Suhasini. Krishna works on a ship and helps Sathyam to get a job. Sathyam's daugher, Radha loves Krishna. Krishna seeks help from Jaggaiah to start his own business. Jaggaiah turns out to be Krishna's father's best friend and gets his daughter Rukmini to marry him. But Rukmini's stepmother tries every trick in the book to separate the two