Aarti, our heroine, also belongs to the same tradition. After becoming a qualified doctor, instead of marrying Prakash, a brain specialist surgeon, who was after fame and fortune, she married Deepak, a social worker who lived with his big and poor family comprising his father, his mentally deranged sister, and his elder brother with his shrewish wife and their three unruly kids. With her untiring zeal and her diligent care, she made every member of the household happy but for her sister-in-law who was bitter against life, and Prakash, whom she had refused to marry, and who was livid with anger, plotting to take revenge on her. Between the two, they were successful in planting the seed of suspicion in Deepak's mind and forcing him to drive Aarti out of the house she had helped to restore to sanity and happiness.

Aarti's cup of misery was filled to the brim when her husband met with an accident and there was no one except Prakash, a brain specialist, who could save Deepak's life. But Prakash refused to operate until Aarti went to beseech him, agreed to pay his price and reposed all her trust in him as a doctor. Prakash performed the operation. It proved successful. Aarti went to him to pay his price. She asked him, "How much is your fee?" Prakash retorted, "Don't ask `how much', but ask `What is my fee'." Aarti asked accordingly and in reply Prakash queried, "Can you leave Deepak and join me?", as if he demanded Aarti from Aarti!