Lilliput

When their dreams of making it big fall apart, Rakesh and Vimmi decide to get even with the world by turning into con artists. As they go from caper to caper, the duo becomes a national sensation and comes to be known as Bunty and Babli. However, little do they know that a sharp-witted cop is after them, determined to put an end to their conning spree.

Sunder Srivastava (Shahrukh Khan) is a young graduate whose main ambition in life is to fulfill his father's dream of starting a school on his half-acre property in his village, though he has no funds to execute his plans. Sunder's childhood friend Prem, a seasoned conman in Mumbai, convinces the gullible Sunder to mortgage. When Sunder comes to Mumbai, Prem has fled with his money. To make matters worse, he has neither food nor shelter in this new town. Sunder is forced to take shelter in a Christian cemetery. Sunder starts cursing his stars & venting his anger. Somebody responds to him, but Sunder doesn't know who talked. He asks the caller to confirm his identity. The caller cannot be seen, but is as surprised as Sunder himself. The caller asks Sunder whether the latter can really hear him. Sunder realizes that he has been talking with a ghost & panics. The ghost suddenly becomes visible to Sunder & introduces himself as Amar Kumar alias Marco (Naseeruddin Shah). Marco tells Sunder that only he can help Sunder & vice versa. Marco tells his story. Marco was an underworld gangster who fell in love with one Savitri Kaul (Malvika Tiwari), daughter of one Mr. Kaul(Shammi Kapoor). Savitri declined to marry him if he did not leave his ways. To show that he was serious, Marco had planned had resolved to give up crime. This did not bode good with his protege Kunta(Tinu Anand), who wanted to become as big as Marco himself. On his wedding night, Marco was kidnapped & killed by Kunta, after which he was buried there. Marco tells Sunil that many crimes taking place in the city under his name are actually done by Kunta & his minions. Marco tells Sunder that due to his sins, he cannot attain redemption. Marco was foretold that only his savior would be able to see & hear him, so Sunder has to help him. Sunder declines, but Marco surprises him by reminding him of his dream, about which Sunder had not told a thing to Marco. Marco tells him that he wants to see Savitri & Mr. Kaul. He also tells that he cannot touch or harm anybody until time comes. Marco manages to get Sunder a post as games teacher in a school run by Mr. Kaul. Marco is angered to know some time after his murder, Kunta spread the news that Marco had fled the country. Kunta's henchmen tried to rape Savitri, but she committed suicide. Marco is surprised to know that he has a daughter from Savitri called Mala(Urmila Matondkar). What really ticks off Marco is that the school lacks appropriate funding & Kunta is trying to usurp its land. Marco gets more than enough fuel to feed his vengeance. Mala & Sunder start falling in love. Marco helps this story & keeps Kunta's goons away for some time. Later, Marco shows a secret room to Sunder where he had kept all his loot. The room was not known to Kunta or anybody else, so Marco proposes that an anonymous donation be made, which will be more than enough to save the school & help Sunder. However, due to their oversight, Kunta finds out that room. Marco loses all his money. In a desperate bid, Marco steals some money & bets to double the money. Sunder is held responsible for the theft, although no proof is present. Marco tells the truth to Sunder, on which latter has a fallout with him. Sunder decides to fight, regardless of the pressure. A cricket match between Sunder's team & team headed by Kunta's son is to take place. This is a life & death match. Marco is skeptical, since he knows that Sunder's team doesn't have a fighting chance. Marco tries to amend things, but Sunder firmly tells that he will win this thing fair & square. However, on seeing the team being trounced very badly, Sunder relents & forces Marco to help them. With help of Marco's spirit, Sunder tilts the sides. Sunder has had a brief meeting with Kunta earlier. Kunta is suspicious that Sunder knows his secret. In a desperate attempt, he abducts Sunder along with Mala & buries them alive in the very place he had buried Marco. Marco succeeds in saving the duo after which he starts overpowering Kunta's goons. Finally, Marco tries to kill Kunta. Kunta is surprised, shocked & unable to understand what is happening. The police arrive on the crime scene & are surprised to see a shocked Kunta hanging midair without any support. Sunder confronts Kunta, who confesses the truth. On Sunder's cajoling, Marco leaves Kunta alive. Sunder tells the whole story to Mr. Kaul & Mala. In the end, Sunder succeeds in his mission & gets married to Mala. Marco comes in the form of a spirit & blesses the duo, before ascending to heaven. Marco advises that he got a second chance, but whoever is alive must get their act in order, since they may not get one. In a final bid for victory, Kunta captures Sunder, Mala, and Marco's father-in-law, attempting to bury them alive in Marco's grave. Marco rescues them and gives all the criminals led by Kunta a beating. He is about to kill Kunta when Sunder pleads with him not to do so, whereupon Marco forgives his enemy and lets him go. Sunder subsequently marries Mala while Marco ascends to heaven. As he goes, Marco warns the youths that although he came back to life for a second chance to do the right thing, they will not have the same chance; they therefore must make the best of what chances they have.

As a boy Shankar, his sister Munni and his mother Mrs. Bajrangi (Anjana Mumtaz) were rescued by an elephant and taken to the nearest village. Shankar's mother survives but Munni dies. Shankar is adopted by Chanchal's father (Vinod Mehra), who is a friend of Bajrangi (Dara Singh). Shankar's home was set of fire by Nahar Singh (Amrish Puri). The baby elephant saved them by breaking a wall, allowing the family to escape. Shankar (Mithun Chakraborty) grows up and earns his living by doing road shows in Delhi along with Chanchal (Varsha Usgaonkar) and Appu (the elephant). Shankar happens to see a poster for Gemini circus featuring Natasha (Irina Kushnareva) and begins to dream of working with her. Hari Singh (Amrit Pal) is Indian coordinator for the Russian circus. Hari is using the circus as a front for smuggling operations along with Bob (Gulshan Grover) and Nahar Singh. Hari is being monitored by a mysterious person named Fakira (Naseeruddin Shah). As the circus goes to Delhi, Fakira joins the group as a coolie. Fakira attacks Hari in the train and wants to know Nahar's location. Fakira throws Hari off the train and he dies, and this is witnesses by Natasha. During the chaos, a bear named Misha escapes from the train and goes into the jungle. He is pursued by circus performers Serge and Natasha. Natasha is bitten by a cobra and is found by Shankar. Shankar sucks the poison out of Natasha and brings her home. Natasha can understand and speak Hindi. Meanwhile, Serge stumbles upon Bob's smuggling warehouse in the jungle. Serge tells Bob that he is looking for Natasha. Bob's men know that a foreign girl entered a nearby village the previous day. Bob agrees to help Serge, and this would be a perfect cover for him to transport his goods to Delhi. Bob brings Serge to the village, where Chanchal is only too happy to help Serge as then she would be rid of Natasha. But seeing Bob, triggers a memory in Appu of Bob and Nahar Singh killing Appu's family. He attacks Bob, and only Shankar manages to bring Appu under control. Natasha leaves with Misha. Meanwhile Shankar's mother needs an operating costing Rs 1 Lakhs for her persistence sharp headaches. Bob delivers Serge, Natasha and Misha to their circus in Delhi, and believes that he has hoodwinked the police. But then, he is pursued by Fakira, who turns out to be Police Inspector Adarsh Kumar. Bob manages to escape, but Adarsh confiscates his entire consignment. Turns out Adarsh had witnessed Bob, Hari Singh, & Nahar Singh kill an elephant and had called Bajrangi for help. When Bajrangi intervened, Nahar Singh shot Bajrangi. Nahar Singh hated Bajrangi as Bajrangi had defeated him in a public wrestling tournament earlier. Nahar Singh was the brother of Raja Sahib (Achyut Potdar), who was Bajrangi's benefactor. Nahar killed Raja Sahib also for siding with Bajrangi in the poaching matter. Adarsh was presumed dead in the melee. Hari Singh took the locket from Bajrangi's neck. Then Nahar Singh set fire to Bajrangi's home to eliminate his family, after blaming Bajrangi for elephant poaching and the death of Raja Sahib. Now, Bob is in a panic and doesn't tell Nahar Singh that he lost the drugs to the police. Adarsh approaches Bob and offers to release the drugs against a bribe of Rs 2 Crores. The drugs are to be transported to Europe in an elephant's cage. Adarsh's only motive is to get to Nahar Singh. Shankar comes to Natasha's circus in Delhi to meet her. Appu enters a live circus performance and starts performing along with Shankar. Their act is a huge hit and as a result he is offered a job in the circus. Natasha is also happy, as she and Shankar love each other. Mrs. Bajrangi refuses to let Shankar leave for Russia without marrying Chanchal. Shankar says that he has never seen Chanchal as his wife. Chanchal runs into the jungle with Appu. She reckons that in a few days Natasha's circus will leave town and things will go back to normal. Shankar anyways cannot go without Appu. But in the jungle Bob finds and abducts Appu for his smuggling plan. Chanchal tries to save Appu, but s gravely injured and dies after she is found by Shankar. Shankar follows Appu's trail to Delhi, where he reunites with Natasha. Meanwhile, Bob prepares a cage for Appu and packs it with the drugs worth Rs 250 Crores for transportation to Europe. Shankar and Natasha track Appu to the warehouse, where the cage is being prepared. Adarsh saves Shankar from being shot, but soon the police arrive, and Adarsh has to run away, along with Bob. Appu, Appu's cage, Shankar and his mother are all taken to Russia by Natasha and her circus. Adarsh and Bob are forced to follow them there. Now Natasha sees a locket in Shankar's neck that she saw on Hari. Mrs Bajrangi says that the locket belonged to Shankar's father and hence he might be alive. But Natasha tells them that the man was killed by a coolie named Fakira. Shankar vows vengeance. Serge is jealous of the love between Shankar and Natasha. Serge assaults Appu and Shankar protects him by attacking Serge. Natasha also tells Serge that she doesn't love him and will never marry him. Serge then plays a trick during a school trip. He asks the students to burst balloons which sound like gunshots to Appu, and he panics and goes berserk. Appu is arrested by the police. Shankar is ordered to take Appu back to India in 2 days. Shankar asks for one more chance and trains Appu and demonstrates that he is not impacted by the sound of bursting balloons anymore. That night Adarsh infiltrates the circus to get his drugs. As he escapes (because Appu created a ruckus and attracted attention), he runs into Natasha and Shankar. Natasha identifies Adarsh as the Coolie who killed Shankar's father. Adarsh manages to escape. Serge gets curious about Appu's cage and finds drugs hidden in its base. Adarsh is also captured when he returns to circus as a clown to retrieve the drugs. Serge says that Shankar smuggled the drugs into Russia using Appu, and that Adarsh is his partner. Mrs Bajrangi decides to visit Shankar in prison and Adarsh sees her. Turns out Adarsh is Shankar's brother, and his real name is Fakira. Adarsh meets Mrs. Bajrangi inside prison and tells her that her elder son is alive. Fakira clarifies that the man his killed was not Bajrangi, but Hari Singh. Fakira says that he smuggled drugs only to get to Nahar Singh. The next day Nahar Singh bails Fakira and Shankar out of prison and tells them that Mrs Bajrangi is in his custody. Nahar says that police got only 5 Kilos of the drugs and Fakira believes that Serge has the rest. Nahar sends Shankar to get the drugs. As Shankar confronts Serge with Natasha, Bob arrives and shoots Serge and takes control of the drugs. As the drugs reach Nahar, Fakira takes advantage of a lapse and attacks. Appu arrives and tramples Bob and Nahar as well. Finally, Natasha and Shankar get married.