• Dev Anand - Amar
• Hema Malini - Shalini
• Raakhee - Sapna
• Pran - Thakur sahib
• Bindu - Rani
• Madan Puri - Madanlal Dogra (he is killed in an encounter with a group of gundas in the hotel and hence, dev anand impersonates him)
• Manmohan Krishna - Jailor (as Manmohan Krishan)
• Padma Khanna - Manju
• A. K. Hangal - Lala Gulzarilal
• Sulochana Latkar - Mrs. Gulzarilal (as Sulochana)
• Sudhir - Kundan
• Hercules - SherSinh
• Master Satyajeet - Ravi (as Master Satyajit)
• I. S. Johar - Raunaq Singh
• Vikas Anand - Manohar
• Roopesh Kumar - Sapna's brother
• Iftekhar
• Jagdish Raj - (as Jagdishraj)
• Mahendra Sandhu

Jailor Manmohan Krishan is responsible for looking after convicts undergoing sentences of rigorous imprisonment. He has a young, beautiful and captive daughter named Shalini. Shalini is a poet, one day while reciting her poetry, she meets with a young man, who introduces himself as Amar, who also happens to be a poet himself. The two of them spend beautiful moments together and finds themselves attracted to each other. Shalini wants to find out why Amar is in jail. She is told in no uncertain terms that Amar is in jail for murder - for killing the brother of his former lover, Sapna. She also found out that this is not true and would strive to the best of her merit to get Amar release from jail because she is in love with him and would like to marry him.

• Director - Yash Chopra
• Story - Gulshan Nanda
• Screenplay - Akhtar Mirza, C. J. Pavri
• Dialogue - Akhtar-Ul-Iman
• Producer - Gulshan Rai
• Editor - Pran Mehra
• Cinematographer - Fali Mistry
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