The postmaster of a village receives a check for 500,000 rupees, for the purpose of bequeathing it to the village’s most upstanding citizen.

Motilal
as Haradhan / Sir Jagdish Chandra Roy

Nazir Hussain
as Nivaran / Postmaster

Leela Chitnis
as Nivaran's Wife

Basanta Choudhury
as Prof. Rajat Sen

Asit Sen
as Harihar Bhanj / Bhanju babu

Jayant
as Rai Bahadur Tandav Tarafdar / Zamindar

Kanhaiyalal Chaturvedi
as Pandit Tarkalankar

Rashid Khan
as Doctor

Mumtaz Begum
as Zamindar's Wife

Paul Mahendra
as Jagdish Roy's Secretary