Amit Malhotra recites one of his Urdu poems at a college/university where he meets fellow student Pooja, and they fall in love. But Pooja's parents arrange for her to marry an architect, Vijay Khanna. A heartbroken Amit returns home and joins his father's business–a construction company–and later marries Anjali, who secretly has a daughter named Pinky from a premarital relationship. Amit and Anjali have a daughter, Sweetie. In the meantime, Pinky is adopted by childless couple Dr. and Mrs. R.P. Kapoor.