Moti is a merchant who sells jaggery in the market, with the help of an older woman, Mahjubhi, who makes exemplary jaggery. He is in love with a village girl, but cannot afford to pay the dowry/marriage expenses to her father. So he decides to marry Mahjubhi, while secretly harbouring the dream of saving enough money for dowry and marrying the village girl. After marrying Majubhi, Moti extracts a lot of work from her to this end. He eventually does collect the amount and divorces her, accusing her of infidelity. Shortly after that he marries the village girl, and goes back to his business of selling jaggery, but faces the consequence of losing Mahjubhi's jaggery.
Amitabh Bachchan
as Moti
Padma Khanna
as Phoolbanu
Leela Mishra
as Badi Bhi
Nutan
as Mahjubhi
C.S. Dubey
as Banerjee
V. Gopal
as
Ravindra Jain
as
Trilok Kapoor
as
Murad
as Sheikh
Dev Kishan
as
