Unemployed Vijay is the youngest in his family consisting of his widowed mom, and two brothers. His passion, poetry, is frowned upon by his brothers, who want him to find gainful employment instead. Vijay's poems are quite radical, so his efforts to get them published are in vain. He takes to drinking, gets in trouble with the law, is disowned by his brothers, ends up at a brothel and befriends a prostitute named Gulabo. Gulabo is sympathetic to Vijay's...