The film is about a young woman, Sunita and her father Mohandas, who finds out that his trusted employee, Rajan, has been embezzling money from him.

He confronts him but Rajan attacks him, flinging him out of the window of the multi-storye building, but the police think the death was accidental.

Sunita does not know that she has put herself in danger again - this time at the hands of knife-thrower, Nisha, who loves Mohan, and will kill anyone who gets in her way.

[7] Overseas, Caravan released in China in 1979 and became a blockbuster there, surpassing Raj Kapoor's Awaara (1951).

Caravan became the highest-grossing foreign film ever in China up until then, with 88 million box office admissions in its initial run.

It reportedly sold a total of nearly 300 million tickets including re-runs, the highest for any foreign film ever released in China.

It took decades before Tahir Hussain's son Aamir Khan later had a similar impact in China,[13][14] with films such as Lagaan (2001),[15] 3 Idiots (2009), PK (2014), and Dangal (2016).

[13][14][16] During his visit to China, Aamir Khan said his father's film Caravan is still fondly remembered there.