Paying Guest is a 1957 Bollywood Romance drama film directed by Subodh Mukherjee.

[2] The soundtrack, composed by Sachin Dev Burman, received a degree of popularity and made a lasting impression.

Paying Guest was the second hit film of the team of Mukherjee, Hussain, Dev Anand and S. D. Burman, who had combined two years earlier to make the successful Munimji.

[3] An incompetent lawyer Ramesh (Dev Anand) keeps on getting evicted as a tenant due his to failure to pay rent.

He then dons the guise of an old man to gain entry in a house as a tenant and falls for the landlord's daughter Shanti (Nutan), whose best friend Chanchal (Shubha Khote) marries a famous barrister Dayal (Gajanan Jagirdar) for money and who is of her father's age.

Ramesh is unable to pay the house rent and Shanti gives him the money her father had given her for monthly expenditure.