Raj Kapoor	...	(Director)
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas	...	(Writer)
Nargis	...	Vidya
Nadira	...	Maya
Raj Kapoor	...	Ranbir Raj / Raj Kumar of Pipli
Nemo	...	Seth Sonachand Dharmanand
Lalita Pawar	...	Ganga Mai
M. Kumar	...
Hari Shivdasani	...	Philachand
Nana Palsikar	...	Gambler with goatee
Bhudo Advani	...	Gambler
Pesi Patel	...	(as Pessi Patel)
Ramesh Sinha	...
Rashid Khan	...	Radiwala
Sheela Vaz	...	(as Sheila Vaaz)
S.P. Berry	...
Kathana	...
Satyanarayan	...
Shailendra	...
Raju	...	(as Rajoo)
Mansaram	...
Iftekhar	...	Police Inspector (as Iftikhar)
Tun Tun	...	Maya's neighbor (as Uma Devi)
Anwaribai	...	(as Anwari)
Indira	...
Mirajkar	...	Inspector
Bhagwandas	...
Bishamber	...	(as Late Bishamber)
Jaikishan Dayabhai Pankal	...	Composer
Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi	...	Composer
Radhu Karmakar	...	Cinematographer
G.G. Mayekar	...	Editor

Summary: Wearing torn Japanese shoes, English trousers, a red Russian cap, and a Hindustani heart, orphaned Ranbir Raj comes to Bombay to make his fortune. He pawns his gold medal, gambles with the money, loses everything, & the balance is pick-pocketed. He ends up on the beach, meets with Vidya Shastri, a teacher who runs a private school, and both fall in love. Ranbir gets a job in a laundry. When he goes to deliver some clothes to Maya, she notices that he has a way with cards, gets him to accompany her to a casino of sorts, where he wins Rs.20000/-, which unfortunately is pocketed by Maya. Then a rich industrialist, Sonanand Dharmachand, approaches Ranbir, hires him to work for him, and soon Ranbir is on his way to a wealthy life. Vidya gets a first hand look at this wealthy life, and decides to break up with him. Sonachand teaches Ranbir that in order to make money one must never discriminate between the rich and poor...