Howrah Bridge is a 1958 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film directed by Shakti Samanta.

But Madan suddenly disappears with the family heirloom, a dragon embedded with precious stones and reaches Calcutta to sell it off.

Edna falls for him and reveals that her uncle, John Chang and their friend Pyarelal (K. N. Singh) are into illegal business.

Having got a clue from Edna, Prem chases the culprits until finally he is framed by Pyarelal in the murder of John Chang.

Kumar, who had previously worked with Madhubala in Mahal (1949) and Ek Saal (1957), went to her house and told her the film's story.

[3] Except the climax, all other scenes of the film in which Howrah Bridge is shown were actually shot somewhere else, according to Madhubala's biographer Mohan Deep.

Uma Vasudeva of Thought found the film to be "western" due to its music and sets and Madhubala "beautiful most of the times".

"[7] Shoma A. Chatterjee lauded Samanta's direction and called Howrah Bridge "one of the best crime thrillers on the Hindi screen".