Bollywood romantic crime thriller, Baarish, directed by Shankar Mukherjee was released in the year 1957. The movie starred Dev Anand and Nutan Behl in lead roles while Anwar Hussain, Nana Palsikar, Madan Puri, Helen, Mehmood, Kumud Tripathi and Kumkum also played important characters in the film. The melodious music of the movie was directed by the veteran music director C. Ramchandra while the songs were rendered by Rajinder Krishan, Mohammed rafi, Lata mangeshkar etc.

Ramu ( Dev Anand ) is a criminal and is quite happy with the way his life is going. Ramu is famous among his crime partners and is very friendly with one of them named Gopal ( Nana Palsiker ). Gopal ask Ramu to visit his village and look after to his mother, ( Lalita Pawar ) and younger sister, Chanda ( Nutan Behl ). Ramu agrees to do so and visits Gopal’s village. But after spending some time with Gopal’s mother and sister, Ramu becomes a good person. He decides to bring them to the city to be together with Gopal.

Ramu also get attracted towards the loving nature of Chanda and soon falls in love with her. Chanda too falls in love with him. But when Ramu tells her about his real profession, she decides to keep a distance from him. Ramu then assures her that he will leave the path of crime. Ramu is now determined to start a new life but his crime partners are not ready to let him do so. Will he ever be able to live a normal life alongwith Chanda?

The songs of the movie are:

1. Yeh arzoo thi ki hum
2. Surat ho to aisi
3. Yeh munh aur
4. Hum to jaani pyaar
5. Mr. John babakhan