A man named Satpal is released from prison after completing a life sentence. He decides to find his family as he knows that they believe he is dead. After searching everywhere, Satpal reaches the dance house of courtesan Meena Bai. Satpal has a conversation with Meena in secret and then dies on her bed. Meena then collects all her savings and jewels and packs them in a suitcase and sets fire to her dance house. Shankar Verma (Mithun Chakraborty) lives a poor lifestyle with his mother, Shanti (Tanuja), after his father, Satpal Verma (Vinod Mehra) died many years ago. Before his death he was involved with a courtesan by the name of Meena Bai (Rekha). Shankar stands up for the rights of the poor people in the slum colony against the rich, who try to corner their resources. Shankar studies in college where he comes into constant conflict with rich brat Balram, who is extremely insensitive towards the poor. Now, Shankar finds himself the object of affection of two beautiful women, Sunita (Moon Moon Sen), a wealthy girl of Thakur Bhanupratap Singh (Amrit Pal), and Madhu (Mandakini), a poor girl and lives with her parents, Hariya (Sharat Saxena) and Tara (Ila Arun). Sunita and Shankar are always bickering at campus. Both women think that Shankar is in love with them. Shankar is subsequently hired by a wealthy woman named Amita (Rekha) who wants him to spy on Thakur Bhanupratap, his son Jackie (Tej Sapru) & his partner Kedar (Roopesh Kumar) & Kedar's son Balram (Gulshan Grover). Shankar is hesitant to take on such an assignment, but his abject poverty and the responsibility of his sister's wedding forces him to reconsider Amita's offer. Additionally, Shanti has asthma and requires proper medical attention. When Shanti comes to know that Shankar is going to Taragarh she gets very afraid. She reveals how Bhanu was demanding interest money from the farmers at every harvest. When Satpal resisted, he was supported by Bhanu's younger brother Shashi. Shashi donates his land holdings back to the farmers. Bhanu gets Kedar to draft up an agreement with Satpal, which is fair to the villagers. But then Shashi comes to Satpal's home and finds that the agreement signed by the villagers was not what Satpal had indicated, and he had sold the interests of the villagers to Bhanu. Shashi goes to confront Satpal and Shanti only learns that Satpal killed Shashi and that the villagers killed Satpal. Kedar asks Shanti to run away with her son. Shankar manages to become a driver in Thakur Bhanupratap household and goes about this task of spying and keeps reporting his findings to Amita regularly. Turns out Sunita is Bhanu's daughter and Madhu's father Hariya is Bhanu's henchman. Sunita goes out of her way to torture Shankar. Sunita likes Shankar's guts that he would not back down in front of anyone and would fight for his rights and his dignity. Shankar saves Sunita's life and Bhanu wanted to pay him, but Shankar only wanted a note of thanks. This enrages Bhanu that Shankar wants to be treated as an equal, but Shankar stands his ground. While Madhu likes Shankar as he is poor like her and kind and compassionate. Shankar also likes Madhu and falls in love with her. Sunita comes by and professes her love to Shankar, but Shankar thinks she is talking about Madhu and agrees with her. Sunita believes that Shankar also loves her. Sunita is ecstatic and tells Madhu that she loves Shankar and Madhu is shocked. Madhu knows she has to antagonize Shankar and she performs a seductive dance in front of Kedar and Bhanu. As a result, Shankar is disillusioned and walks away. Sunita finds out that Madhu sacrificed her own love for Shankar, so Sunita could have a life with him. Through Shankar, Amita finds out that Kedar lives in Bangalore. Amita goes in front of Kedar and looking at her he has a heart attack. When Bhanu comes to meet him in hospital, Kedar tells him that Amita is alive. Bhanu smirks as he had asked Hariya to shoot Amita and he confirms that he did so. Meanwhile Amita poses as a rich heiress to Jackie and Balram in their casino. She lures Balram to come with her and pretends to buy Rs 20 Lakhs of drugs which she pretends to sell to Shankar for 40 Lakhs, disguised as a foreign buyer, Michael. Michael says that he has Rs 80 Lakhs more and asks for 2 more consignment of the drugs, but Amita is not interested. Balram and Jackie are now hooked at the prospect of a Rs 40 Lakhs profit in the deal. They buy 2 more consignments for Rs 40 Lakhs, taking the money from Kedar's safe, but the consignment turns out to be cow dung. Amita then calls Kedar and laughs at him that she took her share of Rs 40 Lakhs from him eventually. Bhanu is perplexed about how this woman could claim to be Amita. One day while talking to villagers, Shankar finds out that his father had a bad reputation and had not only betrayed the villagers, but had also killed Thakur Bhanupratap's younger brother, Shashipratap (Jeetendra). He also learns that Satpal had relations with another woman. His inquiries take him to Central Jail, but on arrival, he is told by the jail superintendent that his father had finished serving his life sentence & was released & after his release had died just 6 months ago at the Brothel of Meena Bai. This was a surprise to Shankar as he & his mother Shanti had been under the impression that his father Satpal Verma had died much earlier many years ago. Shankar then sets out to find out the whereabouts of Meena Bai, but her brothel had caught fire & was destroyed and now no one knows her whereabouts. Meanwhile Amita visits Kedar while he is alone and kills him. Little does Shankar know that Meena Bai is still alive in the shape and form of none other than Amita and is using Shankar as a tool to extract vengeance against Thakur Bhanupratap. This was confirmed to Shankar by his mother Shanti and Shankar confronts Amita. Amita says that Satpal used to consider her as his sister. She says that she and Shashi used to love each other as kids. But then Shashi went abroad for his studies and Bhanu killed her father for not paying land taxes. Amita became a dancer named Meena. One day, Shashi returned and became an alcoholic when he didn't find Amita. He goes to Meena's dance house and realizes that Meena is Amita. Amita gets pregnant in time with Shashi's child. Bhanu tricks Satpal and makes a separate agreement for him versus the rest of the villagers. The villagers consider this as Satpal's fraud and complain to Shashi. Shashi was killed by Bhanu's henchmen, but the villagers believe Satpal killed him. Meanwhile, Bhanu asks Hariya to kill Amita, while Tara says that Amita's child was stillborn. Hariya doesn't kill Amita and returns her to the dance house. One day, Satpal returned to the dance house and revealed that he did not kill Shashi. This was a conspiracy by Bhanu and Kedar. Tara reveals to Hariya that Madhu is actually Shashi's daughter. Bhanu finds the truth and shoots Hariya and Tara. Shankar intervenes and tries to save Hariya and Tara, as he takes them away in a van with Bhanu as his hostage. They are pursued by Jackie, Balram and their goons. Bhanu escapes from the van. Shankar brings them to the village, where Hariya reveals that Madhu is Shashi's daughter. Bhanu and his men attack the village. The villagers support Shankar and come out to fight. Shankar fights Bhanu and defeats him. Bhanu is forced to return the fraud documents of all villagers. Bhanu then gets a gun and shoots Amita, and is shot dead by Shankar. Shankar marries Madhu.
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