The postmaster of a village receives a check for 500,000 rupees, for the purpose of bequeathing it to the village’s most upstanding citizen.
Motilal
as Haradhan / Sir Jagdish Chandra Roy
Nazir Hussain
as Nivaran / Postmaster
Leela Chitnis
as Nivaran's Wife
Vasant Chowdhury
as Prof. Rajat Sen
Asit Sen
as Harihar Bhanj / Bhanju babu
Jayant
as Rai Bahadur Tandav Tarafdar / Zamindar
Kanhaiyalal Chaturvedi
as Pandit Tarkalankar
Rashid Khan
as Doctor
Mumtaz Begum
as Zamindar's Wife
Paul Mahendra
as Jagdish Roy's Secretary
Moni Chatterjee
as Vaidji
Keshto Mukherjee
as Doctor's help