Rajan Mathur (Anil Kapoor) is a Professor in Urdu literature in Dr. Zakir Hussain's Faculty. He resides in Chandni Chowk together with his activist spouse, Roma Mathur (Shefali Shah). Professor Mathur comes throughout a younger boy known as Numair Qazi (Anurag Sinha) who introduces himself as a sufferer of communal riots in Gujarat.