[3] The story is about black-marketeering in grains and medicines, a subject of perennial interest to everybody and of poignant importance to the poor and needy.

The characters and drama are laid among the very poor, the homeless ones, the pavement dwellers, whence the picture derives its title.

Powerfully attracted to a pretty young girl of the neighborhood and wanting desperately to woo and win her, he decides to become a black-marketeer.

With his racket in medicines, Noshu's conscience stirs in him as he sees the people he loved agonize and die for lack of the drugs he is hoarding for peak prices.

All songs are penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri except " kaisa jadu dala re" which is by Ali Sardar Jafri.