Director: Ramchandra Thakur; Writer: Ramchandra Thakur, Zia Sarhadi; Producer: Mehboob; Cinematographer: Keki Mistry; Cast: Surendranath, Rose, Veena Kumari, Sankatha, Ansari, Kayamali, Pesi Patel, Keshav, Wasker
Summary: Produced by Mehboob and scripted by Sarhadi, this melodrama about poverty is one of the Sagar and National Studio films later acknowledged by Abbas as a precursor to his own political cinema. The unemployed graduate Sharad (Surendranath) finds work accompanying a blind beggar. He meets the heiress Sudha (Rose) on the street and later finds that the place where the destitutes find shelter belongs to Sudha’s industrialist father Biharilal (Sankatha). He uses his friendship with Sudha to get her father to forego the rent and to start a factory that may employ them all. The factory does well, to the chagrin of Sudha’s fiance (and the film’s villain) Satish (Ansari). Satish, who simultaneously pursues the beautiful Lata (Veena Kumari), has the factory closed and accuses Sharad of having an affair with Lata. The threat of renewed destitution is avoided only when Sudha and Lata meet and the truth comes out.
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