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Jagirdar Bishamber Nath a wealthy man disowns his son, police inspector Amar Nath for marrying against his wishes. In the course of his duties Amar sends a notorious criminal Pinto to jail. In due course, Pinto escapes from prison and begins a vendetta which results in several deaths, children being separated from parents and the loyalty of a family driver which saves Jyoti. As the children grow up there is a peek behind the scenes of movieland in Bombay, abductions, being loved, unrequited love, broken childhood engagement, success in stardom, suicide and failure. Does Amar's daughter Jyoti find her true love? Is wealthy Bishamber Nath destined to a lonely old age?—MG Gopalan

Inspector Amar Nath (VInod Mehra) apprehends and arrests notorious gangster who goes by different alias (Deshbandhu Jagannath, Pinto, Abdul Karim), and gets him sentenced to prison for several years. Amar, who comes from a wealthy family, defies his father, Jagirdar Bishamber Nath (Om Prakash), and marries a poor but pretty woman, Sheela Sharma, and is asked to leave the family home. Amar and Sheela settle elsewhere and soon are the proud parents of a daughter, Jyoti. They meet with the parents of young Deepak Kumar (Dharmendra) and arrange a child-marriage of their daughter Jyoti with Deepak.

Then Pinto (Kader Khan) escapes from prison, hunts down Amar and Sheela and kills them, but a loyal employee and chauffeur, Abdul (Pran), saves their daughter's life, and takes her to Jagirdar, who accepts her with tears in his eyes. Pinto kills Abdul's family trying to find Jyoti, & Abdul abducts Pinto's daughter but accidentally hands her to a stranger (after he loses his memory).

Years later, Deepak and Jyoti have both grown up. While Jyoti (Anita Raaj) still lives with her wealthy grandpa, Deepak's dad has passed away, leaving his widow destitute. When Deepak's mother goes to confirm Deepak's marriage to Jyoti, Jyoti shuns and humiliates her, even though Bishambar agrees to their marriage. This enrages Deepak and he vows to make Jyoti apologize to his mother, as well as confirm their marriage.

Deepak heads to Mumbai & gets odd jobs in the film city. Sandhya (Reena Roy) is the stolen daughter of Pinto is now a robber in Mumbai, taking wealthy film city types for a ride & then robbing them. She gets arrested & is rescued by Prabhat Kumar (Raj Babbar), one of her victims, who bails her out & gets her an acting job in film city. Now Sandhya is a star & Prabhat loves her. Sandhya gives Deepak his break & starts to love her.

Meanwhile Bishamber is angry with Jyoti for refusing the marriage with Deepak, based on their parents promise to each other, years ago. To placate Bishamber, Jyoti tells him that she is already married, & now is looking for a husband for hire. She goes to film city & meets Deepak, who identifies Jyoti & agrees to ho with her to make her start loving him.

Jyoti loves Raman, who is Pinto's son. Jyoti starts to get jealous of Sandhya's love for Deepak. Pinto finds Abdul, who has lost his memory in an accident, & wants to know the whereabouts of his daughter. Deepak sort of uses Sandhya to lure Jyoti. Jyoti falls for it & is in love with Deepak. When Raman finds out, he tells Bishambar the truth That Jyoti is not married to Deepak, and it was a sham marriage to keep Bishambar satisfied. Via Abdul, Pinto reaches Sandhya's mother who tells Pinto about the girl Abdul gave her all those yrs ago. Pinto realizes that Sandhya is his daughter. Before Pinto can reach her, Sandhya has committed suicide in the memory of Deepak.

Bishambar agrees to marry Jyoti to Raman. But in marriage Abdul's memory comes back & he identifies Pinto as the killer of Jyoti's parents, in front of Deepak & Prabhat. A big melee ensues & Prabhat dies along with Raman & Pinto.