Chhaya

A celebrated melodrama. A bank employee who steals money to buy medicine for his dying wife is caught, jailed and dies of shame. His eldest son Prakash (Vinayak) publishes a poem in the very newspaper that publicized his fathers crime. The judge (Hardikar) who convicted Prakashs father gives him a poetry prize and the judges daughter Chhaya (Chitnis) happens to fall in love with him. But when she learnsof Prakashs family history, Chhaya allows her father and her suitor, Dr.

Atul (Pendharkar), to accuse Prakash of molesting her and sends him to prison. Prakashs destitute sister Kala (Ratnaprabha) becomes a prostitute to pay for the younger brother Sumans (Marathe) medical bills levied by the ambitious Dr. Atul. Kala bears a child and has to kill it.