KARTAVYA is story about Karan (Sanjay Kapoor) and his mother Sharda Verma (Moushmi Chaterjee). Karan meets Kajal (Juhi Chawla) daughter of Ramakant Sahay (Saeed jaffery) in college, they both fall in love. Both of their parents decide them to be formally engaged. On the engagement day Mayor Bishambar Chowdhary, on being introduced to Sharda Verma, insults her by saying that Karan is not her legitimate son, with this Sharda suffers a massive heart attack. Before she dies she confides her secretes to Karan & then Karan plans to unveil the mystery of his existence. In his Battle he confronts with Ugranarayan Singh (Amrish Puri), his sons Balbir (Mohnish Behl) and Bhanu (Ashwin Kaushal). He is beaten up by Balbir and Bhanu. He meets Ghulam Rasool (Om Puri), who reveals the past of Gayatri (Aruna Irani) and Ugranarayan Singh which enrages Karan & he begins eliminating the wrong doers one by one and finally eliminates Ugranarayan thereby fulfiling his "Kartavya".

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