 A celebrated melodrama. A bank employee who steals money to buy medicine for his dying wife is caught, jailed and dies of shame. His eldest son Prakash (Vinayak) publishes a poem in the very newspaper that publicized his father s crime. The judge (Hardikar) who convicted Prakash s father gives him a poetry prize and the judge s daughter Chhaya (Chitnis) happens to fall in love with him. But when she learnsof Prakash s family history, Chhaya allows her father and her suitor, Dr. Atul (Pendharkar), to accuse Prakash of molesting her and sends him to prison. Prakash s destitute sister Kala (Ratnaprabha) becomes a prostitute to pay for the younger brother Suman s (Marathe) medical bills levied by the ambitious Dr. Atul. Kala bears a child and has to kill it.