Navvutoo Batakaliraa is about a hardworking guy Ganesh (Chakravarti), who is a kind of hawker, a commission agent for a travel bus between Annavaram and Rajahmundry. He keeps goading passengers to board the bus operated by Giri Babu, named Sabarigiri Travels. The director tries to tell us that it is because of the singsong hawking talent of Ganesh that even though Giri Babu has just one bus, his collection matches that of all the buses owned by his rival Kaka Krishna Murthy. Understandably there is a cold war between Murthy and Giri Babu that runs on farcical lines without in any way tickling the funny bone of the audiences.
As this stupid drama unfolds, Jayamma (Deepti) falls in love with Ganesh, and desperately tries every trick to get him. Again this is done for comic effect, and again, doesn't gel. Jayamma fails not because Ganesh hates her, but because he is in love with his owner's daughter Dr Sandhya (Malavika).
It looks like Ganesh will make it big by marrying Sandhya, but a couple of songs later the truth is out - that Ganesh is directly or indirectly responsible for ruining the life of Sarala (Uma). Who's this now? She's someone symptomatic of the malaise of this movie - too many characters. Sandhya comes to know of Uma, and there is the inevitable misunderstanding.