A lady's loud shreik is heard from the first floor of a bungalow. Ashok (Dev Anand) hurriedly descends the staircase, apparently running away from the source of shreik, runs into a street where he meets with an accident with Kamini's (Shyama) car. Kamini rushes him to a hospital. Kamini visits Ashok daily at the hospital without fail unless he recovers. Upon knowing Ashok is jobless and homeless, Kamini offers him a manager's job at her father Muthumal's (Gope) company and arranges for him to meet Mothumal over dinner. At Kamini's house, Ashok meets and falls in love with the maidservant Asha (Nimmi) who also happens to be his childhood mate. In due course, Asha reciprocates his feelings. In reality, Ashok is the only son of a wealthy widower, Major Durjan (K. N. Singh), who gets him locked in a room with the instruction “to cremate him if he died of suffocation” after a chance discovery of another character, Rani Ma (Durga Khote), a
look-alike of his deceased wife. Rani Ma is angry at Ashok, as her only daughter was abandoned by him on the night of their marriage, leading to her going mad. Durjan defies Rani Ma and decides to get Ashok married to Asha. The couple unite. == Cast ==