- A runaway bride promises her dying widowed friend that she will assume her identity and look after her infant child.
- Mahadvi runs away from her wedding venue as her uncle is marrying her to a person she doesn't know to be with Kailash whom she finds in arms of Shabnam. Mahadvi repents and decides to go back to her uncle who has committed suicide after humiliation. She then decides to leave the town on her way meets and old friend a widowed Poonam in the train an her son Munna. The train they are travelling derails and Poonam dies she tells Mahadvi to drop Munna to her in laws place. But Mahadvi decides to take Poonam's identity and spend rest of her life while traveling from a forest she is saved by Kamal and she realizes that he is the same guy whom she was to marry. Kamal drops her to her in laws place but is a frequent visitor to their house due his old relationship with the family. Kamal starts to fall in love with Mahadvi but faith brings Kailash to their house whose ready to expose her identity.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
- Madhu was engaged to somebody. She ran away to be with her boyfriend, only to discover that he was only after her money and was really fooling around with someone else. She went home to discover her uncle, her only family, had committed suicide. She ran away. While trying to run, she came across her widowed childhood friend, who is on her way to meet her in-laws for the first time. They decided to take the train together to Naini Tal. Along the way, the train derails and Madhu's friend is killed. Before dying, she makes Madhu promise to "take her place" at her in-laws. Thus Madhu becomes a new person. But, her old ex-boyfriend knows and she is actually connected to the people of Naini Tal in more ways than she knows...—Hemal Sampat
- Madhavi is an orphan living with her Gangapur-based maternal uncle, who arranges her marriage with someone she does not know. She runs away to her lover, Kailash, only to find him in the arms of Shabnam; returns back and finds her uncle dead. Ashamed, she decides to leave by train. At the Station she meets with a widowed friend, Poonam, and her child, who asks Madhavi to accompany her to Nainital-based in-laws' house, where she will be introduced as her sister. The three travel together by train, but it meets with an accident, and Poonam is grievously injured. Before dying she asks Madhavi to take her place and look after her child. She wearily assumes the identity of Poonam, and reaches her destination where she is warmly welcomed. She finds out that her uncle had arranged her marriage with Kamal Sinha, who is bitter at the manner his to-be wife treated him. Kamal is attracted to Madhavi, and makes it known to his shocked family, who do not approve of this alliance with a widow. Before Madhavi could take stock of these turn of events - Shabnam and Kailash re-enter her life - shattering and changing it forever.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
- Madhavi "Madhu" (Asha Parekh) is an orphan living with her maternal uncle, who arranges her marriage with someone she does not know. Blinded in love with Kailash (Prem Chopra), she runs away on the day of the marriage. She discovers Kailash in the arms of Shabnam (Bindu). Heartbroken and dejected, she returns to her uncle, who had committed suicide from the humiliation. Realising that she has no one in life, Madhavi decides to leave town and head somewhere. She meets her childhood friend Poonam, who tells her about her husband's untimely demise in an accident and that she is on her way, along with her baby boy Munna, to stay with her in-laws whom she has never met before. Poonam manages to compel Madhu to accompany her as her plight is pitiful.
En route, Poonam and Madhu catch up until the train derails and end up in a government hospital. Poonam has lost her limbs. She knows that her end is near, so has Madhu promise that she will assume Poonam's identity, bring Munna up and continue life in Poonam's in-law's house. Madhu has no choice but to give in to a dying mother's wish. In the downpour on the way, the cabbie attempts to rob her until Kamal (Rajesh Khanna), a forest ranger, rescues her and gives her shelter until the skies are clear the next day. She soon learns that Kamal is the very man with whom her marriage was arranged.
Madhu leaves Kamal's home in shame and reaches Poonam's in-laws. Her father-in-law, Dinanath (Nazir Hussain) and mother-in-law (Sulochana) accept her and let her stay there. Kamal keeps visiting the house as he was the son of Dinanath's best friend. Soon, he realizes that he is in love with Poonam.
Madhu's ill fate has brought Kailash to Dinanath's house. He is after their money and is very close to revealing Madhu's identity. To be successful, he impresses all the members of the house, but Poonam takes a resentment to him. Dinanath soon realizes Poonam's true identity and asks for the truth. When he realizes what the matter really is, he accepts Madhavi and makes her the guardian of the Dinanath property which will be inherited by Munna. That night, Dinanath is poisoned by Kailash. Mrs. Dinanath accuses Poonam for what has happened and she is imprisoned.
Now Shabnam enters the life of the Dinanaths claiming that she is the real Poonam. Mrs. Dinanath, in rage, sends her away and is ready for no story. Kamal takes a dislike towards Madhu, learning the truth. However, he eventually realizes the truth and gets Shabnam and Kailash arrested for their evil intentions and Madhavi is freed. When Kamal searches for Madhu, he realizes that she has left without any notice and left a letter for Kamal, stating that she is going out of his life and so, he should not try to find her out. Kamal starts searching for her and finds her trying to jump from a cliff and stops her by singing a song. They hug.
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