Babla is a kid who lives in a village with his mother. His mother sends him to his sister's place so that he can go to a good school. Initially, Babla likes both school as well as his sister's home very much and becomes a good friend with Pappu, his classmate. They roam around in streets, watch street magic shows and wish they could do such tricks, look inquisitively at how sweets are made, make fun of teacher, etc. They enjoy all these things thoroughly. But Babla gets reminded of the harsh reality of life when his sister and brother-in-law start scolding him for his disinterest in studies and complaints from the school regarding his so-called irresponsible behavior. He gets to realize that nobody understands kids, their innocence, their view of life and he will have to grow up to enjoy life fully. One day Babla decides that he will be better off living with his mother in the village. He runs off and gets on a train. Since he does not have a ticket, the ticket-master catches him and makes him get off at the next station. In the night he feels cold and looks around for shelter. He finds an old woman sleeping in a blanket and lies down beside her sharing the blanket. In the morning, finding the old woman still sleeping, he picks up a coin from her container and goes off to drink water. While drinking water he sees that lot of people have gathered around the old lady. He goes there and finds out that the lady he had been sleeping with was dead. He gets scared to his core and realizes that life is, in fact, not that simple for those who are poor. He puts back the coin he had taken and runs off to his mother's place. There he finds his mother, sister and brother-in-law worrying about him. They are overjoyed to see Babla back and Babla promises to everyone that he will study sincerely and never create trouble for anyone.
Cast
Raju Shrestha as Babla
Uttam Kumar as Nikhil Gupta
Vidya Sinha as Komal Gupta
Indrani Mukherjee as Kusum
Tito Khatri as Pappu
Shreeram Lagoo as Baijuram
Dina Pathak as Babla's Mother
Keshto Mukherjee as Pandit Shankar Lal
Om Shivpuri as Principal
T.P Jain as English Teacher
Ram Mohan as Ustad
Soundtrack
"Dhanno Ki Aankhon Men Hai Raat Kaa Suramaa" - R. D. Burman
"Hari Din To Bitaa Shaam Hui Raat Paar Karaa De" - Rajkumari
"Mastarjee Kee Aa Gayee Chitthee" -Shivangi Kolhapure
