Vishal Khanna (Rishi Kapoor), a student in a prestigious college, believes he lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his brother, Karan Khanna (Shashi Kapoor), a businessman. Vishal meets and falls in love with Neeta (Neetu Singh), the only daughter of wealthy widower, Gulabchand. Gulabchand meets with Karan and both finalize Vishal and Neeta's marriage. Then things spiral out of control when Gulabchand is killed while Karan is run over by a lorry and ends up losing both his legs. Vishal undertakes to look after the now crippled Karan, but has more surprises to face when Police Inspector Yadav informs him that Karan was never a businessman, but a trapeze artiste in Amar Circus and is also a suspect of a daring robbery and the murder of Gulabchand.[3]