Abrar Alvi

Dhoop Chhaon (Shammi Kapoor) is the owner of a cafe in Manoranjan street & is narrating the story in a train to a recently married Parsi couple. Havaldar Ratan (Sanjeev Kumar) is a rookie at the local police station and is assigned duty on foot patrol on Manoranjan Street, a notorious red-light area, on the very first day of his job. His senior constable (Asit Sen) is also assigned to the street and is notorious for collecting bribes from all pimps and goons to let them get on with their illegal activities. The constable would keep his cap on the table and all the pimps and goons would deposit the bribe in it. Ratan strikes up a conversation with a good-looking young woman named Nisha (Zeenat Aman) and tells her that there is a possible violation of Suppression of Immoral Trafficking Act taking place on this street. Ratan witnesses several women soliciting men, and decides to call in the paddy wagon, and get them arrested. Tingoo (Paintal) is the pimp of the area. Dhoop tries to explain the local economy to Ratan and tries to explain that he should not mess it up as many homes and families are sustained by the activities of the street. Dhoop wants Ratan that messing with the system would likely backfire on Ratan, but Ratan is adamant. While Dhoop and Ratan argue, Ratan's cap was on the table and as usual, the pimps and the goons deposit the bribe money in it. Balram (Dev Kumar) is the local don who is livid with Ratan interfering with his business and vows revenge. Alas, one of the men frequenting the prostitutes is none other than Ratan's superior officer (Madan Puri), who immediately summons Ratan. When Ratan removes his cap after saluting the officer, the bribe money falls out and the officer has him removed from service on corruption charges. Nisha takes pity on a homeless and unemployed Ratan and asks him to live with her. Balram manhandles Nisha for letting Ratan stay with her, but Ratan protects Nisha by beating up Balram. Since Ratan defeated Balram, he is accepted by the other pimps and goons, who were fed with Balram and his bullying ways. Balram was Nisha's pimp and now that job goes automatically to Ratan. Nisha's mother was a singer in Banaras who loved a man and came to Bombay. The man used to make fake currency notes and fled from the police. Nisha's mother was arrested instead, and Nisha was born in prison. Ratan does not want Nisha to sell her body and says that he wants to marry Nisha. Nisha does not like Ratan's views who considers prostitution as menial work and marriage as woman's savior. She says that she is happy where she is, and wants Ratan to accept her life, which he refuses to do. Nisha tells Ratan about a rich Nawab who used to visit her on Sunday's and paid her Rs 500 for the entire week, which meant she had 6 days off. So, Ratan decides to work at night, and during the day he takes on the guise of a rich Nawab Buland Dakhtar and spends time with her as a customer. As Nawab, Ratan only plays cards with Nisha for the entire time he spends with her and claims to be impotent. Tingoo informs Ratan that he has been selected as the head of the Bombay Dalla Union (union of pimps). Things go along smoothly, but the new job requires Ratan to stay away all night. The job is to be a live dummy for training attack dogs. The job is dangerous, but pays Rs 20/hour, which is a princely sum. Nisha thinks that Ratan is cheating on her. Nisha suspects her fellow prostitute Lolita (Faryal) is trying to seduce Ratan and proceeds to thrash her. But then again Nisha sees Ratan return home early morning and is sure that Ratan is sleeping with Lolita. She throws Ratan out of the house. Nisha tells the Nawab that she wants to run away with him to his palace to serve him for the rest of his & her life. Ratan decides that it is now time to get rid of the "Nawab", and he does so. Balram sees that Ratan and Nawab are the same person. Ratan finds that the police have been informed, by Nisha's ex-pimp & Ratan's enemy Balram, that Ratan has killed the Nawab, and they are out to arrest him. Dhoop advice Ratan to accept the murder charge to win over Nisha' love and to prove to her that his love is pure & he does so. Nisha sees how much Ratan loves her. Ratan then escapes police custody by running away. He then dresses up as the Nawab to prove to the police that there was no murder. The Commissioner of police (Murad) gets to know Ratan's case & how he was wrongfully fired for doing his job. Ratan is re-instated. Ratan & Nisha get married.

Rajkumar Shamsher Singh (Shammi Kapoor) is the only son of the local Maharaja (Ulhas) of Ramnagar, and has been brought up as a brat, and now he is an irresponsible, alcoholic, and womanizing adult, who wants everyone to bow down before him and his princely rank. Shamsher has no interest in getting married either. One priest refuses to do so (when Shamsher visits his cottage, the Priest wants to wait his turn as he is seeing other patients), and Shamsher pummels him mercilessly (after abducting him and bringing him to his palace), though in vain. Frustrated, he asks the priest what he should do with his mundane life, and the priest tells him that he should repent, sacrifice all his palatial pleasures, and live the life of a simple and ordinary man, and hence learn the true meaning of life, for at least six months. Shamsher agrees to do so, and arranges an accident with his car, which plummets down a mountain, explodes and is blown to smithereens. But the jeep takes down a boat in the river Everyone in the palace believes that Shamsher is dead. The boat belonged to Princess Amrita (Vyjayanthimala), who was at the river front with her entourage and boat was carrying their clothes while they bathed. Amrita has to borrow clothes from locals to hide their shame. Shamsher had befriended Vilayatiram (Rajendra Nath), who had a car. The duo come across Amrita and her entourage, who wanted a lift.. Shamsher is then abducted by Dacoit (Rajan Kapoor). One of the men Sajjan Singh (Sudhir), wanted to leave the criminal life to go back to his mother and rescues Shamsher. But Sajjan is pursued by Dacoits and shot down. Shamsher is about to be shot, when Vilayati brings the police, who shoot the gangsters down. Shamsher decides to keep Sajjan's promise to his mom (who is blind) The village falls under Jamnapur kingdom led by The King of Jamnapur (Sapru). Shamsher goes to a nearby village, and a blind woman Shanti (Leela Chitnis) there mistakes him for her long-lost son and starts calling him Sajjan Singh. Sajjan has been gone for 10+ yrs and so, no-one in the village remembers him. Shanti's neighbor Kamla (Leela Mishra) has been living next door for 6 yrs and had never seen Sajjan. Shamsher gets a job at the stables of the King of Jamnapur. There he finds that Amrita is a princess. Shamsher gets close to the King by playing good polo. The King is impressed and appoints him his ADC, in place of Ratan (Shyam Kumar) assistant of King of Jamnapur.. Sophia (Helen) is Amrita's good friend. Amrita is livid that an ordinary man like Shamsher has no respect for her, but despite her anger, the King favors Shamsher.. Slowly Amrita is impacted by Shamsher's simple heart and good nature. The King is summoned by New Delhi and informed that his Kingdom will end on 20th of that month. The King orders Ratan to move the cash to Switzerland and empty the treasury. Meanwhile Amrita is invited by her friend Ratna to her wedding and the King decides to attend as well. Shamsher realizes that Ratna is marrying his dad, who decided to remarry to keep the family name alive (as he thinks Shamsher is dead). At the wedding, Shamsher has to dress like a women to hide from the minions of his dad. He ends up in Amrita's room who tries to shoot him before professing her love for him. As people come running after the shot, Shamsher has to escape from Amrita's window, where her father watches him.. The King asks Ratan to get Shamsher beaten up for his audacity. Shamsher is badly injured and Shanti sells her meager jewels to arrange for the doctor and the medical care, to save Shamsher's life. As Shamsher recovers, he is fired by the King. Shamsher doesn't know that the attack on him was conducted by Ratan and the King. Then Shamsher learns that Amrita has gone to Ramnagar as her friend Ratna is now a widow. Which means Shamsher lost his father. Two corrupt palace officials Zorawar Singh (Rashid Khan) & Michael (Randhir) spot Sajjan, and notice his similarity to Shamsher (at the wedding), and conspire with him to pose as Shamsher for a hefty sum of money, to which Sajjan agrees. They want Shamsher to split the treasury with them & Vilayti (who brought them to Shamsher) When he accompanies the officials back to the palace, he is shocked to find that Ratna (Parveen Choudhary), and her greedy brother (Ajit) are in charge of the management of the palace and its estate. Shamsher is welcomed back into the palace by the entire staff, but predictably Ratna and her brother are shocked to see him. But Amrita identifies Shamsher as her stable boy and ADC from Jamnapur, Sajjan. Shamsher decides to reveal his true identity, but the officials threaten to expose him to his new-found blind mother, and Shamsher knows that he is trapped in the body of Sajjan Singh, forced to pose as none other than himself. Shamsher continues to treat Amrita with disdain and she is forced to accept that Sajjan was a sweet and humble man, not mean as Shamsher. On his birthday, the Dacoits attacks and abduct Shamsher, Amrita and Ratna's brother. Ratna's brother promises to give 15 Lakhs ransom for the safe release of Shamsher and Amrita. Ratna's brother sends a letter to Ratna for the money, but she only sends back Rs 5 Lakhs as she didn't have that kind of cash lying around. Ratna's brother asks the Dacoit to release him and promises to send back Rs 10 Lakhs by next morning. Turns out this entire drama was scripted by Ratna's brother, who was working with the Dacoits. The Dacoits will kill Shamsher and Amrita will be witness to the act and no suspicion will fall on Ratna or her brother. The plan goes astray when Shamsher escapes. The Dacoit try to sexually assault Amrita, but Shamsher returns to have a hand to hand combat, in which Shamsher kills the Dacoit. As luck would have it Shanti decides to come to Ramnagar in search for her son Sajjan. She ends up in front of Ratna's brother, who understands the full picture. Meanwhile Amrita's father, King of Jamnapur agrees to marry Amrita to Shamsher, the prince of Ramnagar. To expose Shamsher, Ratna's brother has Shanti sweeping the floors of the palace at Shamsher's engagement party. As Ratna's brother insults Shanti, Shamsher rises to her defense. Shanti can recognize Shamsher's voice as her Sajjan, thereby exposing Shamsher's lie. As palace guards attack Shamsher, his dog comes to his defense and Ratna's brother realizes that Sajjan and Shamsher are one and the same person. Shamsher leaves the palace with Shanti. The priest comes to the palace and reveals that before hiding, the prince had given all the estate to charity, widows and orphans. Amrita meets the priest in secret and demands to know whether Shamsher is alive or not. She says that Shamsher would not have made the will while his dad was alive, he would have made it after his death, which means the priest would have met him a few days ago. Priest confirms that Sajjan and Shamsher are one and the same. Meanwhile Ratna's bro captures Shamsher again and tortures him to write a new will to negate the old one. Amrita goes to rescue him, but Ratna's bro uses Amrita to force Shamsher to write the new will. Shamsher fights back and defeats Ratna's bro. Amrita marries Shamsher and they live their life as a common farmer.

A college grad in need of money must disguise himself as an old man to tutor two young women who are under the watchful eye of their strict aunt. Sita devi is a very strict aunt for a number of young ladies, and does not allow them to fraternize with males. Along comes Pritam disguised as an elderly Professor Khanna to break every possible rule of the aunt. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)