
In the late nineteenth century in a small village in northern India a thirteen-year-old Brahmin widow meets a Muslim sarangi player and elopes with him. Many years later their daughter Jaddanbai moves to Bombay and becomes a star of the early talkies. Chateau Marine her home...

During the making of Mother India, Nargis is trapped in a circle of flames and Sunil risks his life to save her. They recuperate together, and fall in love. Nargis has been in a long but futile relationship with the mercurial Raj Kapoor, and in Sunil she finally finds an anchor...