Restored Asian Films

A kind-hearted businessman who employs many people in a rural region of India decides to take a long pilgrimage and places his son in charge of his affairs. The boy is determined to modernise his father’s business but, in doing so, relieves many people of their livelihoods.

Shankar lives in a remote village in rural India with his mother and sister, Manju, and drives a horse-carriage for a living. The main employer in the region is a kind-hearted businessman Maganlal. When Maganlal announces that he would like to undertake a religious pilgrimage, his son, Kundan, takes over and wants to cut back on labor and mechanize the business – thus leading to loss in jobs. He also introduces a bus thus taking away business from the horse-carriage drivers. This angers the community and they ask Kundan to reconsider, and he flats refuses – but agrees to withdraw the bus provided Shankar races it with his horse-carriage. Watch the action unfold as Shankar unites a divided village, and how he sets about to keep his faith in winning this race between man and machine.

—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)