Roopa lives a wealthy lifestyle with her husband, Prakash Chandra, who works for her dad, Manoharlal Verma, and a daughter named Sharda alias Pinky. Roopa and Prakash do not get along and Roopa suspects that Prakash is having an affair. Her suspicious nature gets a boost when a woman named Sharda Dayal Sharma moves into a house next door. Roopa starts vile rumors about Sharda having an affair with Prakash. As a result of these rumors, no one is willing to marry Sharda, she is mocked by everyone in the community, and even loses her bank job. Sharda decides to teach Roopa a lesson by moving her belongings in to her house, claiming that she is indeed Prakash's mistress. The surprising thing is Prakash agrees to this arrangement and permits her to live with them. Unable to assert herself, Roopa leaves the house, and goes to live with her parents. Things are going well with Sharda, until one day when Pinky goes missing.
Shamsher Singh Rajput lives a poor lifestyle in British India along with his widowed mom, a sister, Asha, and makes a living through crime. He is in love with a gypsy dancer, Reshma, and wants to marry her, but has to content with her suitor, Jagga. He is arrested by the corrupt British Police, jailed, and beaten mercilessly. When the British leave India, he gets out of prison, finds out that his mother will have nothing to do with him, seeks the assistance of Vijay, locates Jagga and kills him. He returns and finds out that Asha is living a wayward life, locates her in a bar with several men, and brings her home. When Vijay shows an interest in Asha, Shamsher warns him, and their friendship ends. Vijay and Asha, in love with each other, seek the permission of Asha's mom to let them get married, are refused until such time Vijay gets a good job.
Con-man Satyaprakash hires naive Bholashankar ostensibly to protect vulnerable Juhu Beach shop-keepers from extortionist Balan and his goons, but soon uses the the former to extort monies from them, thus incurring the wrath of the later. In order to make peace with Balan, he apologizes but Bholashankar gets badly injured and is hospitalized. After recuperating, he will be in for more trauma and shock after he finds that his sister, Lajjo, has been sold by Satyaprakash to Balan for One Lakh Rupees.