Shamsher Singh is a discharged military officer who wants to settle down as a farmer. His marriage is arranged with the educated Neela who ditches him at the last minute and goes to the city where she learns that she stands to inherit a fortune if she gets married within 8 days. After rejecting several suitors, she finally falls in love with Shamsher Singh, whom she meets in the city unaware that he is the person to whom she was earlier betrothed.