Orphaned at a really younger age, Badruddin was taken in by the kind-hearted Ustad Samad Khan, a as soon as standard singer in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Throughout one in all his exhibits, Samad discovered his viewers distracted, and taking this as an insult to his artwork, gave up singing altogether. Badru is interested in Samad's fairly daughter, Reshma, who additionally likes him. Badru has one other admirer within the lovely Naseem, however doesn't reciprocate her love. When Akhtar, a free lance photographer from Delhi, arrives there, Reshma and he immediately fall in love with one another, forsaking a heartbroken Badru. When Akhtar proposes marriage, Samad angrily rejects him, as he desires Reshma to marry Nawab Hyder Ali's son, Basharat.