Amrish Puri plays Thakral, a top-level but cruel lawyer who proves the innocent Deepak Verma (played by Girish Karnad) guilty. As Thakral wished, Deepak Verma is sentenced to death on a false charge of murder. The repercussions are disastrous. Deepak's wife Aarti goes into a trauma and is consigned to a mental asylum. But to avenge the injustice done to his parents, Arun (played by Anil Kapoor)works hard to become an advocate.

Thakral's son, Vicky (played by Javed Jaffrey), is no less as he deliberately traps Arun's sister Komal by making her fall in love with him. He is a murderer who kills his former girlfriend in order to elope with Komal. But the alert Arun has him sentenced to death for the murder he committed. Towards the end, Aarti gets back to normalcy and the family that had been scatterted, reunites. But, Thakral become a mental wreck and spends the rest of his life in an asylum.

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