Plot

Navendu toils hard to support his joint family and keep it together. However, their familial bond gets threatened when his younger brother marries a woman who insists on living separately.

Navendu was a young motherless boy when his father married again. The step-mother saw the fear and doubt in the eyes of the boy and she promised him that he will be like a real son to her. Many years later his father on his death-bed took another promise from young Navendu, a promise to look after his step-brothers and sisters and step-mother, as if they were all of one blood. Navendu kept up his promise till they all grew up and he was like a father to them. Soon the day, came when the young brothers and sisters stood at the same window of life from where they have to select the Road of Sacrifice And the Road of Selfishness. The story of Do Raaste is the Drama of those brothers and sisters who take the different roads. It is the drama of their love and hatred. It is the Drama of a rich girl's love for a poor boy. It is the drama of today's middle class trying to find the right road along which to travel the mortal journey of life. It is the drama of life itself.—gavin ([email protected])

This is the story of the Gupta family. Embodied with traditional respect for elders and dignity for self, consists of Mrs. Gupta (Veena), her elder son Navendru Gupta (Balraj Sahni), Navendru's wife Madhvi (Kamini Kaushal); second son Birju Gupta (Prem Chopra); the third son, Satyan Gupta (Rajesh Khanna); one daughter Geeta (Kumud Bole), and Navendru's son, Raju (Junior Mehmood). The family gets a proposal for marriage from Alloppee Prasad (Asit Sen) and his wife Bhagwanti (Leela Mishra) for Birju, which the family accepts. The bride-to-be Neelu (Bindu) has been abroad and is non-traditional with a broad and outgoing outlook, and makes this known at the very first meeting with the Gupta family. Mrs. Gupta does not appreciate this, but Navendru convinces her, and the marriage takes place. Neelu has a younger sister, the beautiful and stunning Reena (Mumtaz), who goes to the same college as Satyan, and both meet amidst misunderstandings, both comic and embrassing, and eventually both fall in love with each other. Navendru has taken a loan of a large sum of money from a money-lender, and when the time comes to pay, Navendru does not have the money, and Birju's wife refuses to share and pay the money to Navendru. Misunderstandings and quarrels take place in the household, and ultimately Neelu and Birju move out to their own place. The Gupta family lose their home to their creditors, whilst Birju and Neelu continue to live a life of luxury. Meanwhile, Satyan has given up hope on a happily married life with his sweetheart Reena. How will the family resolve these problems is best seen in the movie.—rAjOo ([email protected])