[1][2] Arman was the first film that Kidar Sharma directed for Ranjit Studios and also his first in Bombay since his shift from Calcutta.
[3] The story was a romantic melodrama involving a young rich man who loses his eyesight and is unable to recognise the girl he loves, who helps restore his sight.
Kanwar Sahib (Motilal) speeds up on his way to meet the famous artist Vyas (Nagendra Majumdar) staying in the village.
Kanwar is interested in scientific work trying to produce a ray that would be able to register pain and pleasure in the brain.
Meera meets a sadhu who tells her he will make her a herbal cure for Kanwar's eyes but she has to submit to him.
Baburao Patel in his October 1942 review of the film in Filmindia stated "while failing to provide mass entertainment, still helps to provoke plenty of thought all throughout its pretty long footage".
Sharma had changed the images of the actresses he worked with bringing them into the mainstream cinema, as with Ramola in Dil Hi Toh Hai/Aulad (1939) and Mehtab in Chitralekha (1941).