A lower-caste male falls in love with an upper-caste princess.
In order to disprove the prophecy of his Raj-Jyotsi, the Maharaja sends his soldiers to kill every newborn child in the region. One lower-caste woman hides her male baby in a basket and sets it afloat. The child is then found and adopted by the childless wife of upper-caste Thakur Ranjit Singh, and named Amar. 18 years later he grows up to be a muscle-man, comes to the rescue of Rajkumari Padma, is welcomed by the Maharaja and hired as a developer, and both fall in love - much to the chagrin of Mantri who wants to wed her. He finds out about Amar's low-caste birth, complains to the Maharaja, who not only has Amar but also his biological mother as well as foster parents jailed. Amar is then pitted against several wrestlers but emerges victorious. Mantri then uses deceit by drugging him, has him chained, and used as a captive slave abroad a ship. When Mantri proposes marriage with Padma, the Maharaja refuses, and the former has him imprisoned, takes over the kingdom, and is all set to forcibly wed Padma.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
In order to prevent a prophecy by his Raj-Jyotsi, the Maharaja sends his soldiers to kill every newborn child in the region. A lower-caste woman ('Ratnamala' (qv)) hides her male baby in a basket of vegetables and manages to bring him out of the village; heartbroken, she places her family necklace around his neck and sends the basket afloat down the river. Ranjit Singh ('Pravin Paul' (qv)), the childless wife of upper-caste Thakur Ranjit Singh ('Uma Dutt' (qv)) was just praying the gods to give her a child when the basket flows towards her. She promptly gets the baby, and telling her story to a disbelieving neighbour and then her husband, she raises the boy as her own son.
Eighteen years later, the baby boy is a grown up muscle-man, Amar ('Dara Singh' (qv)) yet of a sensitive heart. He comes to blows with a handful of soldiers to prevent them killing a newborn white sheep, and next he proves to be also an excellent horseman when he follows the chariot of Rajkumari Padma ('Mumtaz' (qv)), and then pulls her out of a moving sands pit. The Maharaja is delighted that he saved his daughter, and hires Amar as a construction manager to his palace. Rajkumari Padma has fallen in love with Amar, much to the chagrin of Mantri ('Randhir' (qv) who wants to wed her - mostly because of his ambition for power.
During an incident at the construction site, Amar's muscles come to good effect when he single-handedly took a heavy wood column off an old woman's legs. The woman sees the necklace he wears around his neck, and thus recognizes him as her son - but keeps quiet for his sake. But during a discussion at the palace, the foster mother is exposed by her neighbour as not being Amar's biological mother. Mantri is delighted to find that Amar is a low-caste, and complains to the Maharaja, demanding his arrest. Amar escapes the palace - after another struggle versus a number of soldiers - and goes searching for his real mother. But when he finds her, the soldiers arrest both, as Amar would not jeopardize her safety by engaging the soldiers in combat near her. They are sent to dungeon, along with the foster parents.
Amar is paired with another strongman ('Randhawa' (qv)) to fight as a tag-team against a pair of the best wrestlers ('Wadib Ayoub' (qv) and 'Al-Rod Goa' (qv)) in honor of Captain Franko's arrival - a slave trader by profession. After a long and strenuous fight, Amar defeats one of his opponents, which does not go well with the Maharaja and Mantri, but leaves Rajkumari delighted. But there is an unexpected event: one of the wrestlers ('Al-Rod Goa' (qv)) considers that his honor is at stake, since no other man had defeated him in a wrestling match before, and defies Amar to a sword duel. The two men, still in their wrestling shorts, take up swords and shields and fight an even duel, until Amar's sword - "prepared" by Mantri's men - breaks under a direct strike from his opponent. Amar defends desperately with his shield, but then he loses that, too. It's with a wrestling move that he throws his on-rushing attacker against a post with protruding spears, and the man impales his chest on one of those deadly things.
Later, Mantri then uses deceit and drugs Amar, in order to dispatch him with a number of others as a chained slave aboard Captain Franko's ship. The captives will make good use of Amar's herculean strength and their own ruses, in order to defeat a burly slave master ('King Kong' (qv)) and then take hold of the ship - after fighting Franko's crew hand-to-hand and with all sorts of blade weapons. Veena ('Minu Mumtaz' (qv)), a dancer in Franko's company, is about to lose her honor to the former slaves when Amar shows his good heart again, and protects her.
[Color segment: Veena sings and dances for Amar on the ship, and everybody enjoys it.]
Everybody fights for survival during a bad storm, and then the ship is adrift for a long time. When people are having delusions because of their thirst, they see a shore, and search desperately for water. They find some, but mostly they find natural dangers such as a giant spider, a giant lizzard, and a small snake. Meanwhile at the palace, Mantri proposes marriage to Padma, but she rejects him, and the Maharaja refuses anyway. Mantri does not want to wait any longer, and leads a palace coup, sends the Maharadja to the dungeon and takes over the kingdom. Now he will forcibly wed Padma.
Amar and his crew of former slaves sail into another shore, and wants to befriend the inhabitants with a generous offer of jewels for food and water. The master of the place is Alberto ('Saudaghar Singh' (qv)) the bandits' leader, who shoves away the jewel box and prepares to take Veena instead. Amar objects to this, and Alberto defies him to a fight. Both men start taking off their clothes, but when Alberto sees Amar's powerful chest, he has second thoughts. Keeping his shirt on, he defies Amar to a sword duel instead. They fight yet another long duel that has both men going out of the tavern and through the rocks and the sea-shore. Amar wins the duel, but instead of plunging his sword through Alberto's guts, he plunges it in the sand. Alberto accepts the new friendship, and his bandits join the slaves for the good cause. Because Veena had received a message from their homeland, via a white pigeon, and they prepare to take on the usurper.
A handful of bandits enter the palace disguised as a circus troop, and they surprise Mantri, forcing him to take them to the dungeon at dagger's point, from where they free all of Amar's parents.
[Color film from here to The End.] Veena and a bandit girl ('Kathana' (qv)) sing and dance at the bandits' cove. Alberto is wounded at the shore by the soldiers, when fighting an uneven battle, but manages to escape on a small boat and reach his companions at the cove. Amar gets to the palace, trying to free Padma, but again he is arrested.
During the wedding ceremonies, the usurper offers a show of arrow-men with the topless Amar as target on the arena. The first arrow plunges into the chest of Veena - who managed to run into the arena, sacrificing herself for Amar. Her sacrifice gave Amar the extra seconds he needed to break his chains, and then all hell broke loose. Not only Amar's friends but the people at large revolt against Mantri's soldiers and there are fights everywhere. Padma is about to be tortured by a burly executioner ('King Kong' in a dual role) in the dungeon, and the Maharadja is wounded to save Padma's life. After long sword duels, Amar prevails over Mantri and his faithful, and in a hand-to-hand fight, he also prevails over the executioner. Then, the Maharadja is ready to accept Amar to depart with his loving Patma.
