| Director | Kishore Sahu |
|---|---|
| Genre | drama film |
| Country | India |
Harishchandra "Harish" Khanna (Ashok Kumar) lives in a happy household consisting of his wife Maya (Nirupa Roy) and their large family of seven daughters and one son in Meerut. Also staying with them is his widowed sister (Lalita Pawar), and her son Jaggu (Mehmood). Harish spends five days of the week away from his family for work in Delhi. Harish and Maya soon have a ninth child much to Maya's consternation, as her eldest daughter, Kamla (Bharati Malvankar) who is married to Gopal is also expecting a child. The fact that Kamla is pregnant is a cause of anxiety, as according to Gopal's parents, the couple have not been together since the wedding and her pregnancy is considered as a sign of her disreputable character. Gopal is not around to give an explanation and his parents decide to send Kamla back home. Harish finds out that two of his daughters, Kiran (Rajshree) and Kamini (Indrani Mukherjee), are in love with Mohan (Manoj Kumar), the son of the College principal, and Ravindra (Soodesh Kumar) respectively, and that Jaggu is in love with Rekha (Shobha Khote). Harish decides to get the three pairs married.
Their matrimonial meeting is fixed for a Friday, the same day Harish always returns from Delhi. Harish has not arrived. Suddenly, a young lad by the name of Sundar appears. He is looking for Harish. He explains that Harish is his father and he desperately needs to see his father to ask for money for his school fees. Not long after, Harish appears and the situation turns chaotic. One thing leads to another to the extent of affecting the marriage of Kamla and Gopal.
When Kamla is accompanied by her in-laws back to her parents', Harish loses his cool and he is forced to break his promise to one person he respects the most; his father-in-law, Sundar's maternal grandfather. His second wife is none other than Maya's younger sister, Radha (Devika), who Maya thought was dead. When Maya's father (Gajanan Jagirdar) had approached Harish to marry his daughter, Harish had assumed it was Radha, as the two were in love with each other. When Radha finds out that Maya too loves Harish, she forces him to marry Maya. Harish and Maya then leave their hometown Meerut, where Harish was helping his father-in-law in his car mechanic business, to go for a job to Rangoon at the invitation of Harish's brother-in-law, his sister's husband. One day, his brother-in-law brings home tickets to see a stage performance. Maya, Jaggu and his mother went for it. The time period is WW II, and during a bomb raid, it is assumed that all three of them are killed. Harish gets back to India after he fails to find them. Radha's father who is already heartbroken due to Maya's death, asks Harish to marry Radha, but complications arise when news by telegram reaches them that Maya is alive in Rangoon. Her father then suffers a heart attack, but makes Harish promise that he'll not let Radha know that Maya is alive, nor tell Maya that he's married to Radha, as he feels that each may sacrifice their life for the other. After Harish ends up telling the truth, Gopal too admits to having spent nights with his wife, Kamla, without his parents' knowledge. All ends well with the last scene; the families, in laws, brides and grooms are in the wedding processions.