New Day, New Night) is a 1974 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by A. Bhimsingh.
It enhanced his status and reputation as an actor in Hindi cinema.
The nine roles played by Kumar correspond to the navarasa (nine rasas).
[2] Sushma believes that she is too young to get married, but her father, Lalla Banarsilal insists, and she runs away.
Her adventures take her to a lonely wealthy widower with a cute daughter named Guddi; a drunken lout in a brothel; Dr. Kruparam, a psychiatrist, who admits her in his mental hospital; a dreaded bandit who has killed his tormentor, cut him into pieces and fed them to birds, and who still on a killing spree; Pandit Gorakhnath who lives a double life - as a priest and as a smuggler; a leper Dhanraj, who once was a very wealthy man, but is now shunned by everyone; a transvestite stage actor; and a hunter who saves Sushma's life by shooting dead a man-eating lion.