Unorthodox, honest, simple-minded, and unemployed Gopi is blamed for a theft he did not commit, and gets thrown out of his home by his elder step-brother.

Gopi (Dilip Kumar) stays in the village with his elder brother, Girdhari (Om Prakash) and their younger sister Nandini (Farida Jalal). Girdhari goes to the landlord Lala (Pran) to take money, which he had saved for Nandini's wedding but gets thrown out of the house. Gopi forcibly gets the money but is accused by the landlord of stealing. Sent out of the house by Girdhari, Gopi leaves for the city and vows to come back only after making enough money for Nandini's wedding.—gavin@[email protected]

Girdharilal lives in a village in India, together with his wife, Parvati, and younger step-brother, Gopiram alias Gopi, who is unemployed, unorthodox, simple-minded, and a trouble-maker. Girdharilal runs this household by making clay images of Hindu Gods and Godesses, and selling them to the village's zamindar for a small fee. Gopi finds out that the zamindar has been re-selling these images for ten times the price he pays Girdharilal, so he decides to confront the zamindar, and as a result, he does get paid a higher amount, but is entrapped in a web of lies and deceit, and is thrown out of the house by Girdharilal. With no life-skills to his credit, will Gopi be able to survive on his own?—rAjOo ([email protected])