FIRST PART OF MUNGAARU MALE The central protagonist Preetam (Ganesh), is a rich, aimless spoilt brat.
On a visit to M G Road amidst a heavy wind, he spots a pretty girl, Nandini (Sanjana Gandhi). Whilst staring at her, he inadvertently falls into a drainage pit(a manhole). Nandini rescues him from the pit who is soaked in dirt and in the process looses her
heart-shaped watch she had just purchased.
Even before Preetam could get acquainted with Nandini, she leaves the place in her car with her friend. Desperate to meet her, he visit the shop to find her address where she had purchased the
watch, but in vain returns. He calls up the local FM Radio Mirchi and requests the RJ to notify his lady-love to reach the pit. Before Nandini reaches the spot he is taken away by his
father.
In the meantime Preetam''s mother requests him to accompany her to Madikeri to attend a function. Along the way, he discuss about his loveinterest with his mother. The tire of Preetam''s car is punctured. While fixing the tire, a lorry spatters water on Preetam''s face. He again spots Nandini, travelling in a car, who throws him a handkerchief and indicating him to wipe his dirty face. Preetham follows the flying hand kerchief, which lands with Jaanu.
Jaanu
, whose been following Nandini, beats Preetham thinking that he''s loving Nandini. Preetham, unaware that Jaanu has vowed to not allow any one to Nandini gives a good beating to Jaanu and gang, all the while his mother is waiting for him in the mungaru male.
In Madikeri, Preetam meets Nandini(Nandu) unexpectedly tells his identification and expresses his love towards her and offers to tie the watch as an indication for their marriage. Nandini, who is already engaged rejects his request. Still, Preetam vows to marry Nandini if she meets him again.
In the meantime, Preetam discovers that his host in Madikeri, Col. Subbayya (Anant Nag) is Nandini''s father, who is deaf and Nandini''s marriage is a just a week away. Dejected, Preetham throws Nandini''s heart-shaped watch and is on his way home to Bangalore. But Nandini calls him over the phone and taunts him to return. Delighted, Preetham goes in search of her watch and brings it back. While searching it, he spots a rabbit, which he calls as Devadas and brings it along with him.
Preetham returns in a hope to impress Nandu''s family and convince them in giving nandu''s hand to him in marriage and gets attached to Col. Subbaiah. He becomes more friendly with her father & mother with his peppy dialogues. He even throws pranks on Subbiah when he is not wearing the hearing aid. This irritates Nandu a lot.Nandini''s friends from Mumbai are arriving for marriage and Preetham takes Nandini to the railway station. The train is delayed by five hours and Subbayya had mentioned to Nandini to visit the near-by hill-temple.There''s a unique tradition on the temple, that the wives/daughters should be carried by fathers/husbands respectively.