Beti Bete

A widower with three young children finds himself in debt. Blinded, in an industrial accident, he loses his job and is admitted to hospital. Upon returning home, he overhears the heartless landlord criticising him for not dying instead of “merely” blinding himself because, if he were dead, the children could be looked after in an orphanage. He decides not to enter the house and disappears. Left alone, the children are evicted. They lose contact with one another after one is left on a train and another is kidnapped. Years pass. The children grow up in different homes under different circumstances. But fate has decreed that the family shall not be forever parted.

In an accident at his mill, near-destitute and heavily in debt, widower Raghu loses his eyesight. He decides to leave his three children, Lakshmi, Ramu and Munna, so that they can be accommodated in an orphanage and lives the life of a beggar. Years later all four are destined to meet again but unable to recognize each other and end up with conflicts.

Cast

• Sunil Dutt… Ramu / Krishna
• Saroja Devi B…. Saroj (as B. Saroja Devi)
• Jamuna… Lakshmi
• Mehmood… Munna / Mahesh
• Shubha Khote… Sarla ‘Saru’
• Jayant… Raghu
• Agha… Parmanand
• Rajendra Nath… Shankar (as Rajinder Nath)
• Niranjan Sharma… Madhu’s dad
• Randhir… Lalaji
• Jankidas… Munshi (as Janki Das)
• Baby Farida… Young Lakshmi
• Master Shahid… Young Ramu
• Master Anwar… Young Madhu
• Dulari… Paro
• Sudesh Kumar… Dr. Madhu (as Soodesh Kumar)
• Keshav Rana… Doctor who treats Raghu
• Narmada Shankar
• M.S. Sharma
• Abdul Rana
• Kathana
• R.M. Patel
• Mohan
• Khursheed Khan(as Kurshed Khan)
• Master Deep Kumar… Ramu
• Heera Sawant