The film has music by Salil Choudhury, featuring Lata Mangeshkar's hit "O Sajana Barkha Bahaar Aai".

[1] The central character is the Post Master Nivaran who is given a mysterious cheque for ₹500,000 to be given to anyone who will use it to benefit the people of the village.

There is a postman Haradhan who is actually Sir Jagdish Chandra who pretends to be lame and has secretly come to the village to know the right person to hand over the cheque, so he visits most of the possible candidates for verification of their honesty.

Then there is the postmaster's wife, who is sick and would rather use the money to cure her illness, and his beautiful daughter Seema, who has a crush on the village schoolmaster Rajat.

The movie is a satirical look at democracy through various twists and turns in the plot, interwoven with a simple love story.