Dharmputra

The film opens in 1925, during the British rule in India and at the height of the Indian independence movement. It is the tale of two Delhi families, that of Nawab Badruddin and Gulshan Rai. The two families are so close that they virtually share the same house. The Nawab's daughter, Husn Bano, has an affair with a young man named Javed and gets pregnant. When the Nawab attempts to arrange her marriage with Javed, he finds that Javed has disappeared. Husn then gets married to another young man, Javed.