The story is about two friends – Vicky, from the rich business class of Bombay and Somu, from a middle class Delhi family.
Vicky is rich, noble at heart but bears a distinct class distinction in mind while dealing with the employee class, be it their servants or the employee of his father’s factory and is quite ruthless in dealing with them. This lands him up in trouble when he insults the Union leader of the factory over an issue of a worker’s rightful compensation. The union calls a strike and Vicky is coerced by his father, shrewd businessman, to ask for forgiveness in front of the workers. Vicky can’t bear this humiliation and leaves for Delhi.
Somu, on the other hand, is also a kind-hearted rational and intelligent soul but when it comes to his friend’s problem, he forgets everything else. So on hearing about his friends humiliation, he plots a revenge and asks Vicky to find him a post as the factory’s worker. He executes his plan smoothly and gradually he acquires the mill workers’ trust and becomes the new Union leader.
As Vicky feels that the score is settled but a new problem arises in the form of Somu himself. During his rise to the Union leader’s post Somu has come in close contact to the labourers and their families and he is now sympathetic to their causes and demands. He could now feel their wretchedness as a high inflation hits the country and is torn between his principle and his friendship. Vicky, also realizing this partly, can’t decide whether to support his friend or his father.
The story now takes a complex turn and will hold the spectators glued to their seats for a moving finish. The outstanding action of Amitabh as Vicky and Rajesh Khanna as Somu outshines the other actors to a great scale but the supporting cast of A.K. Hangal and Simi Grewal also deserves special mention.
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