Anamika

Devendra Dutt (Sanjeev Kumar) is a famous writer and a misogynist (as he portrays woman as untrustworthy in his novels). Deven stays with his paternal uncle Shiv Prasad (A. K. Hangal) and niece Dolly (Baby Pinki). Hanuman Singh (Asrani) is his secretary. One night, while returning from a meeting, he sees a young woman thrown out of a moving car. His uncle Shiv insists they take her home and get her medical attention. He hesitatingly agrees and takes her to their home. The next morning, the young woman (Jaya Bhaduri) regains consciousness but is suffering from amnesia. She can't remember anything except that she is married to Devendra. She can't remember anything from her past - not even her name except that she is Mrs. Dutt. Everyone tries to convince her otherwise, but she insists she is in her own home. Deven thinks the woman is trying to dupe them for some money. Seeing her fragile state, Shiv, the police inspector and Doctor Irshad Hussain (Iftekar) decide to let her stay until someone comes for her. Deven is against this decision. They call her Anamika (meaning a woman with no name). Soon, Anamika takes control of the house and regulates Shiv's diet. Dolly becomes her best friend and confidante. Shiv is happy to have a daughter-in-law in the house. Deven hates it and keeps Anamika at a distance. He kicks her out whenever she tries to enter his room. Irshad advises Deven to take it easy as Deven's harshness could drive Anamika mad.. They post an advertisement for her in the newspaper but receive no response. Meanwhile, Devendra slowly grows close to her and secretly wishes that she would stay forever. One day Deven's publisher Naresh (Rajesh Behl) comes to the house & he recognizes Anamika, but doesn't say anything. That night 2 goons try to abduct Anamika, but Deven intervenes on time and saves her. On his uncle's suggestion, Devendra takes her to Shimla on holiday to further help her fragile recovery. There, he sees Anamika's photo in a studio and on further inquiry comes to know that she is the wife of a businessman Ganga Prasad Malhotra (Narendra Nath). Though heartbroken by the realization that she is married (he tracks the hotel whose address was in the studio's register and the receptionist remembers them as a couple. He gets Ganga's address from the receptionist), he goes to meet the Ganga is Bombay. Here, he is shocked to learn that Anamika isn't the businessman's wife, but his employee/escort Kanchan who accompanied him on his holiday to Shimla the previous year. Ganga asks Deven to ask dancer Rubai about Kanchan's past.. Rubai confirms that Kanchan was a prostitute who used to work for her.. Being already dumped by a former fiance, Devendra believes that Anamika, like all women, is immoral and after his money and throws her out of his house. She is promptly abducted by Naresh. Naresh calls her Archana and says that his own father gave all his wealth to her. He wants to her to sign it back to him. Archana signs the papers but starts a scuffle which results in a big fire in the warehouse where she was kept and Naresh is badly burnt. He later meets her at a ceremony where she is introduced to him as Mrs. Kashyap. Confused, Devendra pleads with her to tell him the truth. She finally narrates her past in flashback - an ardent fan of Devendra's novels, she was infatuated with him while in college. However, incessantly pursued by her classmate Naresh (Rajesh Behl), and helpless by her poverty, which is worsened by her mother's ill-health, she finally agrees to the marriage. On her wedding night, she learns that she is married to Naresh's brother Kashyap, who deserts her the same night believing himself undeserving of Anamika. Naresh now takes advantage of his brother's absence and continues to harass her. Archana's husband commits suicide as he was impotent.. His dad gets a stroke and decides to give all the wealth to Archana before dying as Naresh was always unfit for that responsibility.. She escapes from the house and joins a modeling company as Kanchan to start a new life. There, her boss tries to take advantage of her and when she resists, he blames her for the incident. She quits her job and Rubai (Helen), who had recommended her to the modeling job, outwardly sympathizes with her and puts her up in what she claims is a working women's hostel. A few days later, Anamika gets arrested with the rest of the girls in a police raid, which is when she realizes she had been staying at a brothel. But she is later released, based on the testimony of the other inmates and her own statement against Rubai. Rubai tries to exact revenge on Anamika for this and sends her goons to kill her. While attempting to escape the goons, Anamika jumps out of a moving car on the night that Devendra finds her. Anamika tells Devendra that when she regained her consciousness and discovered that she was at her favorite author's house, she decided to stay, come what may. After listening to all this, Devendra empathizes and reconciles with her. Just then, a badly burnt Naresh attacks them both, and after a prolonged cat-and-mouse chase in a darkened house, Naresh gets electrocuted.