The film opens in 1925, during the British rule in India at the height of Indian independence movement 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 Hamid & gets pregnant. When the Nawab attempts to arrange h...