A man can learn from his mistakes but will the burden of those mistakes allow him to love and marry? Shekhar is a casanova, who finally meets his match in Sharada. She comes into his life as the tution teacher to his siblings. When all tricks to make her love him fail, he forces her to marry him by emotionally blackmailing her. Forced into such a marriage, Sharada spurns Shekhar's affections even more. Meanwhile, an ex-girlfriend of Shekhar, Hema comes back into their lives to complicate matters further. When Hema dies under suspicious circumstances and Shekhar is charged with the murder, it seems that things couldn't ger worse for Sharada and Shekhar.

Does the catastrophe completely destroy their marriage or make them come closer to each other? Do they discover feelings of love that they have kept hidden from each other?

Hamraahi is one of the earlier family based clean entertainers from the Prasad Productions' very successful catalogue. It was a worthy follow-up to their earlier hits Chhoti Behan and Sharada. Alongwith the hallmark powerful performances by Rajendra Kumar, Jamuna, Mehmood and Shashikala, it had another successful musical score by Shankar Jaikishen. The hit songs included "Mujko Apne Gale Laga Lo", "Yeh Aansoo Mere" and "Man Re Tu Hi Bata Kya Gaaoon".