The film is especially well known for some very melodious and popular songs that include: "Andhe Jahaan Ke" by Talat Mahmood, "Hain Sab Se Madhur Woh Geet Jinhein Hum Dard Ke Sur Mein Gaate Hain" by Talat Mahmood, "Kisi Ne Apna Bana Ke" by Lata Mangeshkar, "Mitti se Khelte Ho" by Lata Mangeshkar and the duet "Yaad Kiya Dil Ne Kahaan Ho Tum" by Hemant Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar.

Radha (Usha Kiran) is a young poor girl living in a one-room shanty with her handicapped and bed-ridden father Sadhu Ram (Krishnakant).

Dubey), the right-hand man of their shanty's owner Manohar (Shivraj), who is a rich and unscrupulous businessman, as they owe almost one hundred fifty rupees in rent for over a year to him.

She readily accepts and her happiness knows no bounds, but in a cruel twist of fate, she comes home to find Bhiku Chacha and his men aided with orders from Manohar, about to throw them and their few belongings from the shanty for not being able to repay the entire rent in time.

She goes to Manohar to beg for some more time and mercy but he is overcome with lust at the sight of the helpless young girl, traps her in his room and forcibly rapes her, and then lets her know that he forgives all the amount they owe him in return.

She stops going to work, starts distancing herself from her suitor and roams around alone till the point when she becomes sick and faints and a neighbourhood woman checks her to reveal to her father that she is quite a few months pregnant.

He seems genuinely happy to be alive, have four working limbs and is a man easily pleased with two square meals a day, or sometimes even not, and always has a song or two on his lips.

Nirmal is a modern, educated and charming man and Radha accepts his proposal, but has apprehensions about how his mother will take to her, considering she has such a scandalous event in her past.

Radha writes a letter to Nirmal for him to return quickly, and in his harrowed sense of mind, he rashly drives and crashes his car over a bridge into the sea.

Finally, the weeping, poor, helpless Radha has had enough, takes down a rifle from the mansion and shoots Manohar dead at point-blank.