The story revolves around Lata, who lives a wealthy lifestyle with her parents who wish for her to marry the wealthy Shekhar which she initially approves of. Shortly thereafter, she meets Vasant Kumar, and they fall in love and marry. Heartbroken and angry, Shekhar starts to investigate Vasant's background. He finds out that Vasant's real name is Ashok, an editor for a magazine. What happens in Ashok's or Vasant Kumar's life?
After his film Vazhkai was a runaway success at the box office where it completed 25 weeks of its theatrical run, A. V. Meiyappan planned to remake the film in Hindi with his company AVM Productions.[3] For the lead female role, actress Vyjayanthimala was roped in, Vyjayanthimala, who has done the same role previously in the Tamil and Telugu versions was about to make her Bollywood debut through this film.[4] She had also learned Hindi at the Hindi Prachar Sabha to dub her own voice for her character.[5] For second female lead, popular South Indian actress Pandari Bai was approached, though earlier she was considered to enact the same role in the Tamil version, only to be rejected by A. V. Meiyappan because of her Kannada-tinged Tamilaccent, who replaced her with actress M. S. Draupadi in that role.[6]Pandari Bai was credited as Padmini in this film, as her name is too old-fashioned for Bollywood.[6][7]
The film's soundtrack was composed by S. D. Burman, while the lyrics were penned by Rajendra Krishan.[8] R.Sudarsanam of south was the associate music director. Almost all the songs were chartbusters and the album proved to be successful for music director S. D. Burman, who previously tasted success through Shabnam.
The album features Kishore Kumar's early hit song "Qasoor Aapka", and he later became one of the leading male playback singers in Bollywood.[9][10]Bahar is also one of the rare soundtracks where Burman uses Shamshad Begum as his main singer. Her voice for the song "Saiyan Dil Mein Aana Re" became a hit.[11] "Saiyan Dil Mein Aana Re" was later remixed by Harry Anand for the album UMI 10 Vol 4.[12]
At the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed around ₹12,500,000 with a net of ₹7,000,000, while it became the sixth-highest-grossing film of 1951 with a verdict of "hit" at the box office.[2]
