[2] During World War-II, Rangoon is bombed and many dwellers and their families flee to nearby jungles.
Balraj Sahni later becomes a rich lawyer in India and his son Dr. Gautam (Rajendra Kumar) is a UK trained doctor who volunteers to go to Japan to help deal with the horror of the radiation aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Russell, a pacifist and anti-war thinker (who appears in a cameo role) sets the tone of this 1967 film.
Meloda (Saira Banu) who was educated in India, speaks Hindi; though she is Japanese, meets Dr. Gautam in a Buddha park in Japan.
Meloda's father Dr Akhira (Chetan Anand) is owner of the hospital where Dr. Gautam works.