Sundar and Sheetal loves each other and hopes to get married soon. His mother approves of this match, Sundar makes his living by playing cricket and has become a very popular cricketer and this has brought about many enemies in his life among them are Gautam who conspires with Sheetal to bring about the destruction of Sundar, to which Sheetal agrees and they send goons after him and after trashing the goons he lands himself in jail and here is where he will find out that Sheetal is not what she claims to be. Frustrated at this, on Sheetal and Gautam wedding, Sundar picks up a pistol and mysteriously shot Sheetal in public and is charged for this crime. A charged that might as well carries the death sentence. It's a musical, based on the life and story of Janab Ataullah Khan, the poet, the singer. In the movie, Sundar Sehgal (Krishan Kumar) was an all rounder, who wanted to become a great cricketer like his father.