Chanchal is a story of a fun loving girl who lives with her grandparents. Her grandmother is the dominating sort who always thinks she is right. Chanchal allows her to select the boy she should get married to despite the grandmother rejecting a boy who Chanchal liked.
Chanchal gets married to a boy (Suraj) of her grandmother’s choice but does not like him and she has marital problems straight away as Suraj starts misbehaving and getting drunk in the first day of marriage.
The marriage soon becomes on the verge of a breakdown and Suraj also starts demanding a share in the wealth of Chanchal’s grandparents. The rest of the film is about how Chanchal deals with the problems and her grandmother realises her mistake.