The film is based on the Hindi novel Athara Sooraj Ke Paudhe, by Ramesh Bakshi, about a railways employee who meets a girl on the train.

The film's music was performed by classical musicians Hariprasad Chaurasia and Bhubaneswar Mishra,[1] while the production design was by Bansi Chandragupta.

[6] Sanjay gives up his dreams to become an artist, in order to support his family he takes up his father's profession of railways employee.

He spends his days as a railways ticket checker, till he meets a Life Insurance Corporation employee, Shalini (Raakhee), on the suburban train.

After a few more meetings, they fall in love, and Sanjay starts seeing life differently, but when his father finds about their relationship, he fixes his marriage with some other girl.