Encouraged by his mother, Ram's early entry into petty thievery makes him a criminal as he grows older. While evading the law, he meets Sheila, a CBI officer's sister, and gets married to her.
Acting
Dev Anand's charming-to-broken transformation
Direction
Raj Rishi's noir-influenced framing
Director
Raj Rishi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1950s Hindi cinema loved the 'noble thief' archetype, reflecting post-Partition anxieties about identity and morality.
The CBI officer brother was a rare bureaucratic hero for the era, showing state institutions as redeeming force rather than corrupt.
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