Nai Roshni

The film is a social drama with its plot around university professor Dr Kumar Ashok Kumar who lives with his wife Padma Bhanumati his drunkard son Jyoti Raaj Kumar outgoing daughter Chitra Tanuja and his friends daughter Rekha Mala Sinha Dr Kumar and his wife have a different outlook towards life with him preferring books and philosophy while his wife Padma prefers social gatherings and society clubs Padma never considered Jyoti her son who works as a mill designer a profession she considers too poor to acknowledge Chitra is encouraged by her mother to mingle freely in high society much to the disappointment of her worried father