Filmed mostly in black and white, with some colour scenes, the movie tells the story of a poet who falls in love with three women.

At this point, Nanda loses her temper and yells at Dev, threatening to call the police.

Instead, her shouting attracts the attention of the boarding house's owners, Mr Pinto (Harindranath Chattopadhyay) and his wife (Ruby Myers).

But Dev forgives her readily, with a remark quite apparently aimed at her, though he's in his room and she's in hers, watching each other only through a gap.

She makes it quite clear that she doesn't want his help, but Dev insists, and leaves her with no option but to agree.

By the time he reaches her house – having draped his coat over her wet and shivering shoulders – this mysterious lady is rather more kindly disposed towards Dev, though she doesn't show it.

However, when he's gone and she's changing her wet clothes, she looks fondly down at his coat and sees his notebook of poems sticking out of the pocket.

Next day, I. S. Johar has a piece of very good news to share with Dev, his book of poems has been accepted by a publisher and the first proof copies have arrived.

Then, a couple of days later, a lady resurfaces in Dev's life: the unknown woman to whom he had lent his coat.

Her life is a whirl of men trying to flatter her, making promises of laying their hearts at her feet, and so on.

They have a minor mishap along the way, the car goes into a ditch, and Dev and Kalpana spend an interesting day getting to know the locals.

On returning from Gulmarg, at the hotel in Srinager, Dev finds Kalpana with sadness in her eyes, which he correctly guesses to be loneliness.

Kalpana admits it to him, that, she has seen the superficiality of the life that surrounds her, and she longs for someone to truly understand her, as a person, not just a beautiful face.

He then wakes up out of the hypnosis, and a confused and uncertain Dev becomes sure and finally makes up his mind and chooses Nanda as his life-partner.

Although Amarjeet was credited as the director, Dev Anand revealed that he ghost-directed the film, thus marking his first attempt at direction,[2] before making his official directorial debut with Prem Pujari (1970).