Naive, simple-minded, and illiterate Bhaskar Sarnaik (Amitabh Dayal) involves Bombay from his far-off village, to search for his lacking brother, Raghuvir. He is available in contact with Sub-Inspector Gokhale (Om Puri), who feels sorry for him, and never solely presents to search out his brother, but additionally employment at an Irani Restaurant. Bhaskar does discover his brother - within the morgue - however decides to not inform his mom as this will break her coronary heart. He decides to remain on in Bombay and undergoes coaching to grow to be a police officer. A short while later he's additionally a Sub-Inspector working carefully with Gokhale. He's wounded in an encounter, and his mom involves take care of, and will get him to marry Aditi (Nandita Das) from the identical village, which Bhaskar does so.