Synopsis

A newspaper editor, Shrivastav, is killed when he was about to expose the underworld links of a very rich and influential person. C.I.D. Inspector Shekhar is assigned to this case, an investigation of which leads him to suspect Dharamdas and his men. But Dharamdas spins a web of lies and deceit, and Shekhar himself becomes a suspect, and is arrested by the police, and loses his job, leaving Dharamdas and his men to carry on undeterred.

Trivia

• Dev Anand and Guru Dutt were friends when they struggled to get a break in films, and had promised each other that Dev would give Guru Dutt a film to direct (which he did with Baazi) and Guru Dutt would cast Dev as a hero and direct him. As Guru Dutt did not direct C.I.D. he could fulfil only half his promise.
• Guru Dutt had spotted Waheeda Rehman in a Telugu movie and cast her in Pyaasa, but gave her a key supporting role in C.I.D. to prepare her for Pyaasa.
• Guru Dutt had reportedly gifted Raj Khosla a swanky foreign car after the success of C.I.D.
• The choreography of this film was done by Zohra Sehgal – now famous for her ‘granny’ roles Cheeni Kum.
• The costumes were credited to a Bhanumati, who is better known as Bhanu Athaiya.
• Assisting Raj Khosla on C.I.D. were Pramod Charavorty and Bhappi Sonie who went on to become successful directors in their own right.
• One of the lyricists was Jaan Nissar Akhtar, father of Javed Akhtar
• The scriptwriter was Inder Raj Anand, father of actor-filmmaker Tinnu Anand.