It was directed by Biren Nag and produced by Hemant Kumar, who also composed the music and sang some of the songs.

[2] The film marks the directorial debut of Biren Nag, and stars Biswajeet, Waheeda Rehman, Madan Puri, Sajjan and Asit Sen.[3] The film is a loose adaptation of the Bengali hit thriller Jighansa (1951), which was based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles as well as loosely based on Hemendra Kumar Roy's novel Nishithini Bivishika.

"[1] The film became very popular for the song "Kahin Deep Jale", sung by Lata Mangeshkar and written by Shakeel Badayuni for which they won Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist respectively.

Twenty years after the Thakur's death, his grandson Kumar comes to the village and is warned by the locals that the spirit will kill him as well, but he does not believe them.

The next day as he wakes up, he finds out about Radha, a carefree girl, who is the niece of an old man, Ramlal.

Radha strongly urges Kumar to leave the village and go back to town, since a person wearing his coat was killed by the spirit.

Ramlal forbids his niece Radha to meet Kumar, since tongues in the village have begun to wag.