Meena, a wealthy, educated girl, has been promised in marriage to Sunder, a sheltered young man who has received an extremely traditional religious education. Displeased, Meena sets out to find a more suitable candidate, but is taken in by Manohar, a gold-digging conman. Finding Sunder to be clueless about the world, Manohar is soon manipulating him as well as Meena in his schemes to gain possession of Meena's fortune.
Amar and Rekha fall in love, but their happiness is endangered when Rekha discovers that she was already married as a child.
Two fathers, one poor and the other rich, hope that a wealthy postmaster will wed one of their daughters.
