He becomes a father ,but his wife is soon absorbed into the cycle of poverty.
Ramu, by contrast, has a calmer temper and is married soon after. Birju, embittered by the exactions of Sukhilala since he was a child, takes out his frustrations by pestering the village girls, especially Sukhilala's daughter. The film then skips forward several years to when Radha's two surviving children, Birju (Sunil Dutt) and Ramu (Rajendra Kumar), are young men. A storm sweeps through the village that destroys the harvest and kills Radha's youngest child, and the villagers start to migrate but decide to stay and rebuild because of Radha's urging. Sukhilala offers to help alleviate her poverty in return for Radha marrying him, but she refuses to sell herself. Radha continues to work in the fields with her children and gives birth again. Soon after this, Radha's mother-in-law dies. Deciding that he is no use to his family, he leaves and does not return. He is shamed by his helplessness and is humiliated by others in the village. While trying to use more of their land to alleviate their poverty, Shamu's arms are crushed by a boulder. The conditions of the loan are disputed, but the village elders decide in favor of the moneylender, after which Shamu and Radha are forced to pay three-quarters of their crop as interest on the loan of 500 rupees. This event starts the spiral of poverty and hardship that Radha endures. The wedding between Radha and Shamu (Raaj Kumar) was paid for by Radha's mother-in-law, who got a loan from the moneylender Sukhilala. Radha (Nargis), as the mother of the village, is asked to open the canal and remembers back to her past when she was newly married, mirroring the new independence of India. The film begins with the finishing of a water canal for the village set in the present.
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