Society is a typical 70's melodrama involving the age old rich girl - poor boy scenario and all the problems that this causes in "society". The movie was released way back in the 70's when alcohol was permitted in clubs and Nadeem and Shabnam were in the midst of their all conquering sequence of hit films.

Society certainly wasn't one of the biggest of their successes, but succeed it did, and largely due to the chemistry that existed between the lead pair. Shabnam plays the spoilt, westernized, club going, disco dancing daughter of massive industrialist who is looking to get her married off to a noble friend somewhere. After Shabnam's enormous wealth is dastardly Aslam Parvez who is her club going companion - a total smoothie, whose nefarious plan is to get poor Shabnam danced off her feet before spiking her drink with VAT 69, and then when she is "tipsy" he is going to make her an "aik raat ki dulhan" so that she has no option but to marry him……and then he will be heir to the billions that her father is going to leave behind in inheritance. Just to hasten his plan, Aslam sends some goons to rough up old Seth Baqar (the super industrialist), but a puny but obviously very powerful Nadeem arrives on the spot to thrash the living daylights out of the goons and put paid to Aslam's evil plot.

Seth Baqar employs Nadeem as a driver for his errant daughter Shabnam, and asks him to keep an eye on her in case she may "accidentally" put her "izzat" at stake. This happens one night when Aslam has Shabnam cornered and is about to ravage her. Nadeem arrives just in the nick of time and yet again displays his prowess by thrashing poor Aslam to a pulp. Shabnam is stunned by her experience into realization and transforms overnight into Miss Goody Two Shoes. She also bursts into song with a sizzling Madame Noor Jehan number just to stress the point that she now fancies her driver like crazy.

Problems shortly arise as according to this movie, a lowly auto driver having an association with a rich person is a criminal offense. Aslam spreads the word in "society" that Shabnam is having an affair with her driver and soon word reaches the Seth who has a absolute fit. He forbids his daughter to see the driver let alone harbour any thoughts of marrying him, thus much heartache and wallowing in self pity to a Mehdi Hassan number with Nadeem stumbling from pillar to post. It gets worse, the local club dancing babe Husna has a huge crush on Nadeem and feels that he is the man for her, especially as a lowly driver could hardly be in the position where he would morally object to a club dancer. Then the bombshell, as we find out that the club dancer is in fact the daughter of the Seth who had an affair with a club dancer in his youth but now pretends to hide behind the façade of utter Islamic virtue.

All sorts of complications ensue and are resolved in typical formula style. The film is not particularly memorable yet is a great period piece. The flared shalwar kameezes are pure kitsch pop art and some of Shabnam's hairdo's are bordering on the illegal. Meanwhile Aslam wears a great pencil thin slimeball mustache, stunning sideburns and his typical silk suits with matching hankie! The man oozes style. Nadeem is in playful, impish form which rather suits him. Shabnam doesn't have much of a role and in fact loses out to Husna who has gets three songs to her two! Husna is pretty but cardboard like in her role as the club dancer who should have been respected daughter of a Seth.

The movie moves along rapidly enough and thanks to Lehri's drunken antics, and Aslam's shenanigans things are fairly entertaining. It's a lightweight entertainer but is fascinating mostly for its view of what the order and morality of a good "society" should be. Interesting to say the very least.