Parvarish (transl. Upbringing) is a 1958 Indian Hindi-language film starring Raj Kapoor, Mala Sinha and Mehmood.[1] It was later adapted into the Tamil play Petral Thaan Pillaiya, which in turn was adapted into the Tamil film Paar Magaley Paar (1963).[2]
After a hospital accident, a wealthy man is compelled to adopt a prostitute's son. After the incident, Thakur Jaswant takes both the infants with him. They wait for the guardian of the other child. As they are not able to make out which child is whose.
After some days, a man named Banke Bihari comes to meet Jaswant. He tells him, that the other child, who is the son of a prostitute, is his nephew and the prostitute was his sister. The lady left this world after giving birth to her son in that fire accident. So, he wants to take the other child with him. But he is also unable to identify which child is his nephew. Jaswant then brings up both the children as his own. This things insults him in the society as he has adopted a prostitute's son. His all friends and partners refuse to marry their daughters to any of the Jaswant's son. But his friends promises to marry his daughter to Jaswant's son.
As the time passes 3 of the children grow up. Things take a turn when both the boys want to marry a same girl