Ramdas is a trusting individual, and trusts everybody around him. When times turn bad for him, he entrusts the life of his son, Bansi, to his trusted employee, Ronaklal, and departs. He regularly sends money to Ronaklal to provide for the upkeep of his son, but Ronaklal uses this money to educate his son, Deepak, keeps Bansi uneducated, and makes him do a lot of manual work. Years pass by, Ronaklal is now crippled, and is dependent on Bansi, as Deepak has left him, got married to a wealthy girl, and lives with his in-laws. Ronaklal is unable to show his face to Ramdas, and avoids him, and Bansi has grown up without knowing who his real father is. Will Ronaklal be able to tell Ramdas the truth when he returns, or will be just let Deepak be the sole heir to all the estate and the property?—rAjOo ([email protected])
Rounaklal (Kanhaiyalal) is the servant of a rich man Ramdas (Shivraj) who suffers from tuberculosis and believes himself to be on the point of death; he gives Rounaklal a large sum of money to look after his little son, Bansi and wants him to be educated to become a doctor. Rounaklal moves to a village with his wife, son and Bansi where he brings up Bansi as a menial laborer. With the money left by Ramdas, Rounaklal buys a house and agriculture land in the village.Laxmiprasad Daulatram (Om Prakash) is the landlord of the village. Laxmi is happy with the way Rounaklal has tilled his land and gives him a salary to take care of his 150-acre land in the village in exchange for Rs 100/month and a share of the income from crops.Laxmi (Sulochana Chatterjee) is Rounaklal's wife and doesn't like the way Rounaklal mistreats Bansi. She has a soft spot for Bansi.
As luck would have it, Ramdas gets well and goes back to his house, where he expected to find Rounaklal and his son Bansi. But the house is locked.Bansi (Guru Dutt) is simple and good at heart, while Rounaklal's son Deepak (Sudesh Kumar), though sent to the city for education, pursues a rich man's daughter Sushma (Neena). Platform M. P. P. S. (Mehmood) is Deepak's friend in the city and works as a coolie at the station. he teaches Deepak how to find shortcuts to success in life. Platform loves Double Roti (Shubha Khote) who runs an Irani hotel.Platform helps Deepak to pose as a wealthy prince to romance Sushma, who is the daughter of Laxmiprasad. Sushma's mom is Mrs. Dhanno Daulatram (Lalita Pawar).
Bansi falls in love with a village belle, Gomti (Asha Parekh). But Rounaklal has already promised Gomti's father Shivcharan (Nana Palsikar) to marry Deepak to her. The deal is that if either party reneges, then the property of the reneging party will be given to the other as recompense. Laxmi knows that Bansi and Gomti love each other.Deepak comes back from city to ask for money to get married to Sushma. But Shivcharan comes to Rounak to ask for Deepak's hand for Gomti. When Laxmi finds out she tells Rounak that Bansi loves Gomti. Rounak yells at Bansi and tells him that he is adopted and says Bansi deliberately sabotaged Deepak's and his future, since Rounak has mortgaged everything on this marriage. Bansi is heartbroken and decides to step aside.When Gomti finds out she confronts Shivcharan. When Rounak finds that Gomti confronted Shiv, he kicks Bansi out of his house for instigating Gomti.
While Deepak is in the village, Laxmiprasad comes to visit his lands and finds Deepak staying in the govt cottage. Rounak is astounded to find that Laxmiprasad thinks of Deepak as the son of a royal and is ready to marry Sushma to him. Rounak pretends that he doesn't know Deepak and goes along with Deepak's ruse.Rounak goes to Shiv and tells him that Deepak is ready to marry Gomti and wants the engagement the very next day.Now to handle Shiv, Rounak goes to Gomti and says that Bansi left heartbroken to the city once he found that Shiv wanted to marry her to Deepak. Gomti promptly leaves the village in search of Bansi (Rounak gives her money and promises to marry them if she returns with Bansi). Now the next day, Gomti isn't there and Rounak presses his claim on Shiv's entire land and wealth as per the agreement. Rounak sells all house and lands to fund Deepak's wedding to Sushma.In the city, Gomti meets Double Roti who protects her from goons and street romeos.
Meanwhile Ramdas is Laxmiprasads good friend and is back in the city, after searching hopelessly for his lost son. He opens a charity kitchen to feed the poor. Gomti starts working at Double Roti's Irani hotel as a waiter (dressed as a guy). One day Shiv Charan walks through the doors. Gomti convinces Double Roti to give him a room at the hotel.Shiv Charan attend Laxmiprasad daughter's wedding and finds that the groom is Deepak. He tells the truth to Laxmiprasad, but by then it's too late and the wedding is done. Laxmiprasad beats Rounak mercilessly and kicks him out of the house. Deepak refuses to stand up for his own father.
One day Bansi saves Ramdas's wallet from a thief and returns it to Ramdas. Ramdas gives him a job at his kitchen as a manager. Bansi gets a room at Double Roti's hotel. Gomti is delirious with happiness, but she still maintains her disguise as a waiter.Ramdas meets Laxmi again and sees the wedding pictures and recognizes Lamxi's in-laws as Rounak. Ramdas says that he gave his son to Rounak. Laxmi thinks Deepak is Ramdas's son since he doesn't know that Bansi even exists. Deepak doesn't mind as he is only after money. Ramdas takes Deepak and Sushma home.
Meanwhile Bansi finds Rounak and his wife in the city and takes them to his room in the hotel. This is when Double Roti reveals Gomti to Bansi and his parents. Rounak finds Shivcharan in the same hotel and apologizes to him. Shiv is also re-united with Gomti.Bansi finds Deepak in Ramdas's house and asks Rounak. Rounak tells Bansi that he had no kids. Bansi was adopted from a poor family, and Deepak was from a rich family who paid Rs 25K to educate Deepak. Therefore, he educated Deepak and not Bansi. Rounak goes to meet Ramdas and Deepak. But Rounak tells Bansi not to reveal the truth to wife Laxmi.In a public celebration Rounak reveals the truth to everyone, saying that Bansi is Ramdas's son and not Deepak. Bansi is still humble and doesn't allow Ramdas to kick Deepak out. He shares his new wealth with his brother. Bansi and Gomti get married.
