Ramesh Talwar

The village of Dhauladhar is situated in the mountains set among some of most scenic beauties that nature has to offer. Inder (Tinnu Anand) is a TV serial director who arrives in Dhauladhar to film his latest episode. He hires a guide (Sudhir Pandey) who helps him scout for potential shooting locations. He takes Inder to a large banyan tree which has 2 graves under its vast canopy. An old Medicant (Sanjay Dutt) lives under the banyan tree, who says that the graves belong to Sahibaan and Gopi and proceeds to narrate their story. Sahibaan (Madhuri Dixit) lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in rural India along with her mom (Anjana Mumtaz), dad Balakram (Satyendra Kapoor), and a mentally challenged cousin Kheru (Javed Khan). Balakram makes a living selling dolls. Sahibaan is in love with a homeless laborer, Gopi (Rishi Kapoor), who lives near temples and eats whatever the villagers give him. Gopi plays a melodious tune on his flute, which attracts Sahibaan to him. Gopi works as a shepherd to earn some money for his sustenance. Sahibaan is childish in her behavior and doesn't realize that she is a grown woman now. Sahibaan is 18 years old but insists that her father carries her on his shoulders and plays marbles with the children of the village. Gopi admonishes her and one day she falls into a river. Gopi looks at her water drenched body and sends her home. Gopi is very afraid of the water and says that he doesn't know how to swim. That day she grows up, throws her marbles away and starts helping her mother around the house. Sahibaan learns to cook food and sew clothes as well. She expresses her love to Gopi, who accepts. The area is ruled by ruthless killer, alcoholic and womanizer Kunwar Vijay Pal Singh (Sanjay Dutt). He is sympathetic towards the poor and has a rivalry with the landlord of the nearby province Tikka (Kiran Kumar). Tikka is considered ruthless towards his workers and Vijay stands up to him and his goons and fights for the rights of his village's workers. Vijay increases the daily wages for his workers from Rs 1.5/day to Rs 3/day. Due to this all of Tikka's workers come to work for Vijay and this enrages Tikka. Tikka forcibly takes the workers back to him lumber mills by whipping them and torturing their families. In retaliation, Vijay kills one of Tikka's supervisors. Mrs Tikka (Beena Banerjee) & Tikka's sister Rajkumari Razee (Sonu Walia) live with Tiika. Every night Vijay ravishes a new prostitute and sends her away the next morning. Tikka sends an assassin to Kill Vijay, but Vijay kills him instead. Tikka bribes Inspector (Mangal Dhillon) to open a murder investigation against Vijay. Inspector tries to get Vijay's fingerprints on his gun, in order to frame him, but Vijay is too clever and had already worn gloves. One day while chasing a rabbit, Sahibaan ends up in the palace ground of Vijay & is abducted by his guards and left at the mercy of Vijay, but Sahibaan manages to escape. Vijay, however, is unable to get her out of his mind and asks Diwan Durga Singh (Bharat Kapoor) to search high and low for her. The Diwan is able to find her during a Mela and takes several men, sweetmeats, jewelry and clothing to propose to a delighted and disbelieving Balakram and his wife. The same day Gopi was planning to ask for Sahibaan's hand in marriage from her dad. Meanwhile at the Mela, Razee was also present and was attracted to Gopi. Sahibaan's parents are angered when Sahibaan refuses to marry Vijay and asks them to get her to marry Gopi. When Gopi proposes to Balakram, Gopi is humiliated, beaten and asked to leave. Diwan returns to Vijay, who decides to kill Gopi. Vijay locates Gopi, beats him, and throws him in the river. Razee finds Gopi at a riverbank, barely alive and persuades Tikka to take him home. When Sahibaan says that Vijay had attempted to molest her, Balakram refuses to permit her to marry Vijay, despite of the fact that Vijay promises to stop drinking alcohol and having his way with women. Vijay forbids Durga Singh from abducting Sahibaan again, as he truly loves her. Both Balakram and Sahibaan set out to try and locate Gopi, as Sahibaan is convinced that he is alive. They find Gopi's clothes near a funeral pyre (these clothes were discarded by Razee as they were drenched in blood) and assumes that Gopi is now dead. Meanwhile Gopi gains consciousness under Razee's care. Tikka finds that Vijay is in love with Sahibaan. Gopi overhears this and runs after Sahibaan. Razee stops him and tells him that she loves him, but Gopi has already promised himself to Sahibaan. She convinces Gopi to come back and promises to take him to Sahibaan once the rains subside. Tikka agrees to help Razee as he wants to deny Vijay at all costs. Meanwhile Sahibaan gives up and agrees to marry Vijay. Tikka confronts Vijay but is instead beaten up by Vijay. But this gives time for Gopi to reach Sahibaan. Razee helps Gopi and Sahibaan escape, but Vijay pursues them. Durga stops Gopi and Sahibaan by putting rocks in their horse carriage path. Razee dies when the carriage overturns. Durga tries to convince Sahibaan, but she jumps into the river to escape. Vijay arrives and shoots Durga. Gopi jumps after Sahibaan. Vijay jumps to save both but can only flush out their dead bodies.

Mohan Kumar (Dilip Kumar) is a honest and conscientious man working as the General Manager of a shipping company owned by his friend, Dinesh (Pradeep Kumar). Dinesh is a widower and his daughter, Roma (Amrita Singh) is attached to Mohan Kumar, his wife Sumitra (Saira Banu) and young son Ravi (Rishi Kapoor). Assistant Mgr Jugal Kishore (Pran), Accountant Bhandari (Prem Chopra) and storekeeper Balwant (Amrish Puri) who work under Mohan Kumar, are into smuggling. When Mohan Kumar comes to know of their activities, the three men murder Dinesh and deviously frame Mohan Kumar for it. Mohan Kumar is helpless. Unable to prove his innocence in court (he was holding the gun when the police arrived at Dinesh's house.), he is sentenced to a 14-year jail term. After that Sumitra tries to attack the trio in the street but is thrown off by then and come under a commercial vehicle and dies. Mohan vows revenge against the trio after he returns from jail. After serving the jail term Mohan Kumar takes help from Puri (Ashok Kumar) whose life he had saved in prison, to take revenge on the three villains. Mohan searches for his son Ravi in orphanages and finds that he ran away several yrs ago. Puri has connections with the under-world. While Mohan Kumar is also unable to trace his son Ravi. Roma lives with her wayward uncle Jagdish (Satyen Kappu), a mean alcoholic. Unknown to Mohan Kumar, his lost son Ravi (Rishi Kapoor) is a sophisticated conman and steals money by betraying people's trust. Jugal, Bhandari and Balwant still run the smuggling business. Ravi is asked to deliver a few liquor bottles to a party at Bhandari's house. Bhandari is taking a bath, so the servant thinks Ravi is a guest and invites him in. Ravi sits at the table and plays cards, which JK sees and is impressed with his tricks. JK employs Ravi for Rs 10000 per night. Puri helps Mohan to track down JK as well as Roma. Mohan rescues Roma from Jagdish. Mohan starts by figuring out the Modus Operandi of JK's smuggling operations. He finds out the location where JK's smuggled gold is being offloaded in Bombay, by kidnapping JK's agent Teja (Kulbhushan Kharbanda). Mohan then confronts the trio and tells them that is going after their lives. JK asks Balwant to kill Mohan at the earliest. Balwant finds that Mohan is taking Roma out for dinner on her birthday. As luck would have it, Ravi was scouting the same hotel and sees Roma alone with a purse full of money. Mohan is running late and Ravi strikes a conversation with Roma. Mohan meets Ravi when he arrives & feels an unexplained affection for Ravi. when Balwant shoots at Mohan, Ravi sees it in time and pushes him away, thus saving Mohan's life. Balwant sees Ravi and reports the matter to JK. JK believes Ravi when he says that he doesn't know Mohan and agrees to be JK's spy in Mohan's house. Ravi pretends to be in love with Roma in order to get close to Mohan. Roma loves Ravi and recommends him to Mohan for a job in Mohan's office. Ravi figures out that Mohan knows the location of JK's warehouses and intends to attack. Ravi tries to warn JK but gets delayed in traffic and then his lift gets stuck. Mohan sets the warehouses on fire. Bhandari had moved all of his life's savings into those warehouses, based on threat from Mohan, that he would target his wealth. Bhandari is penniless now. Bhandari is distraught and jumps into the blazing fire to save his money and dies. Unknown to anyone, Mohan had already removed Bhandari's money bags from the warehouse and delivered them to Puri. Jugal Kishore and Balwant assign Ravi to kill Mohan Kumar For Rs 10 Lakhs. Ravi decides to kill Mohan at Puri's party that very night. Unable to do so (he hesitates while taking the shot), Ravi falls off the roof, and is ironically saved by Mohan Kumar. Kabir (Mac Mohan), one of Puri's henchmen, finds Ravi's gun. Suspicious, he spies on Ravi and finds out his connection to JK and Balwant. Mohan Kumar is enraged and throws Ravi out even though he begs that he loves Roma and respects Mohan. Balwant tries to kill Mohan Kumar but fails. Mohan Kumar chases him and hit by a truck, Balwant dies. Ravi runs into Jagdish, who tells Ravi how Mohan was convicted for Dinesh's murder. Ravi confronts Mohan in front of Roma, and Roma is devastated to know that Mohan hid this fact from her. She decides to leave with Ravi. Meanwhile JK's goon reaches Ravi's house, and they find that Ravi is in fact Mohan's son. JK decides to abduct Ravi. While abducting Ravi, JK finds that Roma is Dinesh's daughter and abducts her too. Now JK informs Mohan that his son and Roma are in his custody and demands Rs 50 Lakhs as ransom. When Mohan reaches the designated location, Ravi realizes that Mohan is his father (JK reveals the same). Ravi and Mohan team up to get the upper hand on JK, but Teja arrives to swing the equation again in JK's favor. At the end Puri arrives to disarm JK and Teja. After a huge fight, Mohan ends up shooting JK.

Sharda and her sister Poornima alias Nima live with their widowed father. Since both have come of age, he first arranges Sharda's marriage with a businessman named Balraj Kohli. Subsequently, Poornima also marries a wealthy young man. But fate has other plans for Nima, for her husband tragically passes away in an accident, leaving her widowed. When Sharda sees her sister in a widow's garb, she loses her mental balance and is institutionalized in Pune Mental Hospital. After approximately 14 years, an inmate strikes Sharda on her head, she loses consciousness for several days. When she regains her senses, she remembers everything that happened 14 years ago, but is unable to recollect her life in the mental hospital. Her treating psychiatrist is ready to discharge her to the care of her husband and her family. Sharda comes home, everything is about the same, except that her son, Sagar, has grown up and is about to be engaged to Sarita Sethi, and Nima still wears a widow's garb. A few months later Sharda sees Nima clad in a colorful saree, wearing a bindiya with sindoor in her forehead, and starts suspecting that everything is not it seems to be. She then finds out that Balraj had re-married and also has a son from his second marriage named Babbu. As details come flooding into her she experiences wild paranoia, is unable to trust anyone, as no one is what they claim to be, and she feels alone, lost, helpless, and distrustful. The rest of the family hover around - waiting to see what the new outcome is to be with Sharda and her struggle to fit into a family that has not been her's for 14 years.