Eddelu Manjunatha

Manja and Naani engage in a long, candid dialogue inside a captive lodge room. They exchange radically different worldviews—Manja's lazy pragmatism against Naani's ambitious optimism—and the conversation sets the film's satirical tone. Their banter reveals how their lives may intersect and challenge each other.

The film sketches Manja as a lazy, unmotivated middle-aged man who treats life as an easygoing existence rather than a future to shape. He views livelihoods as something to be sought through indirect routes, not through conventional work. This stance is underscored by satirical humor that highlights his moral drift.

Naani is visually impaired yet stubbornly optimistic about becoming a filmmaker. He refuses to let his disability define him and remains determined to prove that vision and storytelling matter more than sight.

After their lodge conversation, the duo's freedom is celebrated with alcohol, but they soon become confined at Manja's home. The local inspector helps Gowri manage Manja's unruly habits, turning the private space into a pressure chamber for their conflicts.

Naani outlines the plot of his film, featuring Rajkumar's pledged eyes and how sight can be shared through another's perspective. Manja reacts with warmth and imagination, praising the potential impact of such a movie for fans.

In a symbolic moment, Manja retrieves his mother's 50-rupee note and gives it to Naani as encouragement and luck for his dream. The gesture strengthens their unlikely friendship and injects hope into Naani's stalled project.

Gowri leaves a note for Manja declaring that she is pregnant but unable to tell him directly due to his drunken state. The concealed pregnancy creates tension and foreshadows a life-changing revelation.

Gowri returns home suffering, revealing the strain of living with Manja's unstable habits. The moment deepens their domestic conflict and points toward a grave outcome for their unborn child.

Gowri aborts the unborn child due to the heavy burden of their chaotic life together. Around the same time, Naani leaves the house, leaving Manja to confront the consequences of his behavior and choices.

In a trance-like moment, Lakshmi, the unborn child, appears to Manja and speaks about the life that could have been. The vision shifts his understanding away from reckless celebration toward the value and fragility of life.

Lakshmi reframes the tragedy, telling Manja that Gowri did not kill the child and that, in truth, Manja bears responsibility for the loss. The revelation marks a painful turning point in his moral awakening.

The unborn child's words urge Manja to stop wasting life and to rethink his relationships. He begins to grapple with the gravity of life and what it means to be a father, signaling a shift away from addiction and carelessness.

Manja realizes that the true guru is the unborn child who was lost. This realization teaches him the value of life and the need to reform; he resolves to seek meaning and responsibility rather than easy, risky pleasures.