Kal Hamara Hai (film)

Bharat, a young man, works as a puppet for greedy and wealthy Seth Hiralal. Hiralal once asks him to kill an old man who knows the truth of Hiralal's black marketing and show this as an accident, to which Bharat refuses. However, Hiralal himself knocks the old man down with his car and blames Bharat for this. Bharat is imprisoned but soon runs away from the jail with a thought of revenge. When he is about to murder Hiralal for destroying his life, Bharat meets a girl who is also hidden behind a pillar in order to steal something from Hiralal's house. She introduces herself as Madhu, and tells him that the purpose for stealing is she does not have money to buy medicines for her father, who met with a fatal accident just few days ago.

Bharat decides to help Madhu and buys her medicine for her father. To his shock, her father is no one other than the old man whom Hiralal had asked to kill. Madhu's father is somehow not able to recognise Bharat.

Madhu has a sister named Bela, who looks just like her and is sent to study in Delhi. One day, she sends a letter to Madhu telling her that she left the college as she was not able to pay the fees, and moreover, she is not interested in studies anymore. She has began working as a dancer in a club to earn money. Hiralal notices Bela while she is dancing and tries to buy her. However, Bela is beauty-with-brains; she backs off Hiralal's plan to him, which infuriates him.

On the other hand, in spite of no relation, Bharat begins helping Madhu financially and they fall in love. Madhu asks him to bring Bela back home and he promises her the same.

Bharat goes to Delhi at once and tries Bela make things understand and succeeds. Bela, too like her sister, is impressed by his personality and falls for him. When Bela gets to learn that Madhu also loves him, she leaves her sister's house; on her way is murdered by an infuriated Hiralal.

Bharat is framed by Hiralal for murdering Bela. During the courtroom drama when Bharat is tried, it is revealed that he is the son of no one other than Hiralal; his jealous relative had kidnapped him when he was an infant.

As Bharat is imprisoned, Hiralal reveals to the court that Bela was killed by him. He also tells the court that throughout his life he earned money by wrong ways, she framed Bharat several times; he is regretting now.

In the end, Bharat reunites with his family, marries Madhu and Hiralal is jailed.

• Madhubala as Madhu / Bela (double role)
• Bharat Bhushan as Bharat
• Jayant as Seth Hiralal
• Leela Chitnis as Hiralal's wife
• Murad as Lawyer
• Bhram Bhardwaj as Bharat's friend
• Hari Shivdasani as Inspector Umesh Mehra
• Nazir Kashmiri as Doctor

The soundtrack of Kal Hamara Hai was composed by Chitragupta and the lyrics were penned by Shailendra and Majrooh Sultanpuri.

Kal Hamara Hai opened very well at the box-office, but it was not able to retain its high collections for many days and was unsuccessful.[2] The film received mixed-to-negative reviews from many critics, and the performances of actors were hardly praised, except that of Madhubala in a double role.[3]

• The scene where Bela (Madhubala) gives an autograph to a man was reused in 1962 film Half Ticket.
• Actor Manoj Kumar was a frequent visitor of K. Amarnath on the sets of Kal Hamara Hai. Later Kumar had admitted that the hero of Upkar (1967) was inspired from the hero of Kal Hamara Hai.

• Kal Hamara Hai at IMDb