Rajesh Khanna received an All-India Critics Association (AICA) Best Actor Award for his performance in this film in 1983.

Radha, is the only daughter of Seth Jugal Kishore a billionaire, and is in love with Avtaar, a poor boy.

After various hardships, the couple ultimately succeed; after three decades, Avtaar is owner of a small house and fortune.

Chandar marries the only daughter of Seth Laxmi Narayan a millionaire and becomes a Gharjamai against Avtaar's wishes.

Avtaar faces an uphill task, since he has no money to buy equipment, is aged and his right hand was crippled in an accident.

Meanwhile, Avtaar's best friend Rashid Ahmed who is very aged suffers at the hands of his cruel daughter-in-law, Zubaida who has made a slave out of him and doesn't even feed him properly and mistreats him very horribly.

Avtaar sees this and opens a center for people who are suffering from their cruel relatives and names it "Apna Ghar" (Our Home).

Avtaar starts manufacturing the engine parts, and creates an industrial empire headed by himself, his wife and Sewak.

Avtaar out of vengeance, unethically and deliberately puts Laxmi Narayan out of business business by selling his automobile parts at much lower rates than those of Laxmi Narayan and furthermore completely ruins him by offering double wages to all his factory workers and steals them all as well.

He gave 2 lakhs to both of his sons only due to their mistreatments and betrayals that hardened and toughened him up and led him to becoming a successful businessman.