""Madhuri(Rekha) is a poor but well educated girl born and brought up in a small village. She and her younger brother Srikant live with their widowed mother. The family is overjoyed when Madhuri`s marriage is fixed with the son of a very rich man in the city. Mr. Chaudhry(Utpal Dutt) the rich Seth had himself married a village girl and had a very happy married life. He therefore wanted his son Amit(Rakesh Roshan) to also marry the village girl Madhuri. Amit however born and bred in the city did not want to marry a village girl but was too weak to defy his father. But right after the wedding he got a chance. Finding an excuse that even this dominating father could not refute he refused to accept Madhuri as his wedded wife.""