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- When Lajjo is at her deathbed, she summons her stepson, Rahu, so that he can look after her son, Beli. Rahu does attend her residence, just before her death, assists with the funeral and offers to take Beli with him and look after him. Rahu hires a hit-man named Jaggu and instructs him to kill Beli. Jaggu is unable to kill Beli, angering Rahu to no end. Rahu then pushes Jaggu and Beli from a cliff and hopes that they have met their respective ends. Rahu then sets about to claim Lajjo's property, by hiring a man to pose as Beli. Months later, Rahu approaches a wealthy woman for her only daughter's (Parvati) hand in marriage. While Paro's mother approves of Rahu, Paro is in love with someone else. While her mother finds out that she is in love with a mere employee, she dismisses him, and make arrangements for her marriage with Rahu. Watch the suspense and the climax unfold as Rahu prepares to get married to Paro, with the assurance that no one can ever get in his way.
- When Parbat meets Pahari, the two of them fall in love and everything seems to be going well for both of them. However, things get complicated when a previous obsessive lover enters the narrative.
- Two movie actors are confronted by startling and hilarious obstacles.
- An Indianized version of the Sherwood Forest legend. King is away, the jaagirdar is a wimp and his henchman loots the poor. Our hero steals from the tyrant and helps the poor and repressed. On a romantic sideline, he courts the jagirdar's beautiful daughter, who is also being wooed by the evil henchman.
- Chandni (Rehana) and her dad (Iftekhar) belong to a well-off family. Iftekhar feels that Chandni has come of age and must get married, and he selects a groom for her and asks her to marry him. She refuses and runs away from home. She meets up with Fooman and Dhaboo and gets into a series of adventures with them, including eluding the police. One of their adventures lands them aboard a ship captained by Prem (Prem Nath), who is transporting Princess Shehzadi (Purnima) to her native land. The princess likes Prem and would like him to marry her, but Prem refuses, and as soon as they land, Prem is arrested by the King, imprisoned, and tortured. Fooman, Dhaboo, and Chandni plan to help Prem to escape, which jeopardizes their own lives.
- Shanta (Sadhana) is wealthy Rajbahadur Murthy Sagar's vivacious and uppity, orphan granddaughter. Her character is developed as pretty, haughty, aware of herself and contemptuous of servants. Shyam (Shammi Kapoor) and Shanta have a couple of tempestuous meetings. Shyam, who hails from Allahabad is educated and cares about the wellbeing of his widowed step-mother and wheel chair-bound step-sister Bina. Employed by the Rajbahadur as Manager of his household, Shyam has many opportunities to court Shanta, and he does so with a succession of songs and in style. Shanta however is a misandrist (a woman who hates men) as a result of her traumatic childhood. Rita (Laxmi Chhaya) who has been brought in by the Rajbahadur to help Shanta mend her unmannerly ways has given up and admits defeat. Taming the shrew is a challenge that only Shyam can take up. But how will he deal with a woman who believes in "fall from a hilltop, fall from above, fall from anywhere, but never fall in love"? She even writes up a placard "Men are beasts". Shanta's ego is further stoked by Devdass who serenades her in Scottish attire playing a bagpipe. A road trip in a rare right hand drive open top Buick to a hill station (Khandala) in the Western Ghats is a turning point in Shanta's behaviour. Retired Colonel Jung Bahadur provides a couple of comic interludes and is pivotal as the plot unfolds.
- When Mala is presumed to have died in a car accident after being suspected of murdering Lady Hiramani, Mala starts a new life and calls herself Nayantara. Things get complicated when Nayantara is accused of murdering her husband Shekhar.
- A wealthy man forces his wife and their new-born daughter, Soshila, out of the house because he had hoped his wife would deliver a son. Years later, Soshila and her boyfriend, work for her father and attempt to win her father's affections.
- Belonging to a family that has a grandfather addicted to alcohol, Mohan Khanna (Raj Kapoor) too is addicted to alcohol, compounded by the fact that he is enamoured with a woman, Miss Reeta (Nishi), who is using him to extort money and vengeance from his Judge father, Kundan Lal Khanna. The only person who is really interested in the welfare of Mohan, in a practical way, is an aged and recently hired servant of the family, who has just been released from prison for killing two people.
- Adil (Premnath) is a dashing, brave young man, full of hope and mindful of the rights of all people, especially the downtrodden. It is this last attribute that ends up putting him in the bad books of the Emperor (Ulhas). The Emperor orders his arrest. But before the soldiers can arrest Adil, he single-handedly rescues the Emperor's bethrothed from a lion. This earns him the gratitude of beautiful Queen-to-be, Juhi (Purnima). The Emperor, pleased with Adil, gives him an important assignment in his army, and promises that Adil's fellow-villagers will not face oppression, taxes or forced labour from his army. Ruhi (Bina Rai) loves Adil, but Adil is unaware of this. Juhi is impressed by Adil and this impression turns to love, and she tells Adil about this. Adil does not think it appropriate for a bethrothed to be his lover and wife, and spurns her. Angered Juhi starts to plot against Adil, by getting the emperor to collect taxes and forced labour from Adil's village. This angers Adil, who goes to confront the emperor and the queen-to-be. Angered, the Emperor dismisses Adil, and orders his arrest. Adil flees to the hills. Numerous attempts by the emperor's armies to apprehend Adil are in vain. Finally, Juhi tells the emperor that she will bring in Adil without spilling a drop of blood. Will Ruhi succeed where so many have failed?
- When Deepak starts singing for the village temple, he falls in love with Kala without knowing that she is a child widow. The film offers a daring and rare depiction of the romantic pursuit of a widow in the Indian cinema during the 1950s .
- A Roman military commander falls in love with Ranjana, a devout Christian. The Roman Empire's atrocities toward the Christians prompt the commander to become a rebel soldier to protect the Christian community from the Roman Emperor.
- When Bindu's brother is murdered by a night club owner, she decides to take things in her own hands to avenge his death. The film offers a rare window into how and whether she will succeed when she is dealing with an omnipotent villain.
- A love triangle emerges when two men, Prakash and Motilal, fall in love with the same woman, Nilu. Complications arise when, after looking at several photographs at Motilal's home, Prakash realizes that Motilal is his long-lost brother.
- Haria's life changes when a Pundit, his wife and smart sister-in-law, Soshila, become his neighbors in the village he lives in. Things get complicated when a romantic relationship develops between Soshila and Shyam.