Bollywood family drama flick, Hum Hindustani, directed by Ram Mukherjee was released in the year 1960. The movie starred Sunil Dutt and Asha Parekh in lead roles while Joy Mukherjee, Prem Chopra, Joginder Shelly, D. K. Sapru, Hari Shivdasani, Helen, Gajanan Jagirdar, Leela Chitnis and Sanjeev Kumar also played significant characters in the film. The hit melodious music of the movie was directed by the well known female music director Usha Khanna while the songs were beautifully sung by Mukesh, Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar etc.

Surendra Nath ( Sunil Dutt ) and Satyendra Nath ( Joy Mukherjee ) are two brothers. They are living a wealthy lifestyle alongwith their parenst and a sweet little sister. But destiny strikes and they looses all their wealth. they are forced to live a poor lifestyle. They also looses their reputation among the people. Satyendra then gets a job in a bank. His job is the only support of the family. Surendra has no job and actually does not want to do a job. He wants to do some business on his own but lack the financial support.

Situation becomes worse for the family when Satyendra is arrested by police in the charge of robbing a amount of rupees ten thousand from the bank in which he was working. Satyendra thinks that his brother has stolen the money from starting a business but never dares to confront him. Finally Satyendra confronts Surendra for this to which whole family gets into a big shock.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Raat nikhri hui