Set in a village, Lavangi Mirchi Kolhapurchi is a family drama about a married man Sarjerao Patil who falls in love with a dancer whom he meets at a 'Tamasha'. As the rumors spread about his proposed marriage to Sundara the dancer, his father-in-law approaches him to find out the truth about the matter. Soon it turns out, that Sundara is none other than the daughter of his second wife. Brought down by shame and disgrace, he requests Sarjerao to marry Sundara. What follows is a miserable fight between the two wives. A man deprived of peace and happiness, Sarjerao opts to spend the remaining of his life in an Ashram. Slowly the two ladies realize the folly and agree to be on good terms with each other. They request his friends to find him and bring him back to them. On hearing this Sarjerao decides to return home. However the two take up a fight again and Sarjerao threatens to go back to Julie another female who fell in love with him at the Ashram. Accepting his conditions, the two wives promise not to create any more chaos. At this moment a Swamy enters and Julie returns to the Ashram. The play ends with Lord Krishna's sermon on the selfishness of man and his unwillingness to sacrifice. The moral of the story however is that a person should be happy and satisfied with one wife who can make a house heaven or else he will have to live a life in hell.