Ashok Kumar and Meena Kumari starrer romantic comedy flick, Bandish, was released in the year 1955. The movie was directed by Satyen Bose. The other starcast of the movie includes Daisy Irani, Nanda Babu, Bipin Gupta, Nasir Hussain, Mehmood, Narmada Shankar and Bhanu Banerjee in important characters. The hit evergreen music of the movie was composed by the veteran music director Hemanata Mukherjee while the songs were crooned by Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle etc.

Tomato ( Daisy Irani ) is living a wealthy lifestyle alongwith her gaurdian named Mahender ( Nasir Hussain ). Mahender’s health is not good from quite some time and he realises that he is going to die very soon. Mahender decides to make arrangement for Tomato before he dies. He decides to leave Tomato in the park. He instruct her to call the guy standing there named Kamal Roy ( Ashok Kumar ) as her father. Kamal get shocked when Tomato comes near him and calls him as her father. Kamal life gets upturned with this certain incident.

Kamal is in love with a beautiful women named Usha ( Meena Kumari ) and planning to get married to her. But after she learns that Kamal is a father of one child, she leaves him. Kamal tries to convince her that the child does not belongs to him but fails. Kamal begs Tomato to leave him alone so that his life get settled again. However, Tomato refuse to accept it. Now Kamal is left with no other option than to accept her as his child.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Hayya re hayya
2. Le lo jee
3. Dil mera beqaraar
4. Jhoomti jawaani