Omkar Bhakri

The film draws reference from various historical events that have shaped Punjab be it the Anti-Sikh riots of 1984 or partition of India and touches upon the present scenario.

When the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb bans music in India because he believes it turns people away from God, musicians go underground.

The film is set in 1947. The exodus has begun after Partition. A Sikh ex-military man in his thirties finds a 16-year-old Muslim girl alone in a nearby village and brings her home. But the villagers tell him he should either marry her or leave her in a camp where people bound for Pakistan are located. But he decides that since he's far older, he'd better leave her at the camp. As he is about to send her off with a man bound for the camp and who is prepared to marry her there, she asks Buta Singh if he is so poor that he cannot even feed her two Rotis per day to keep her alive. Whereupon Buta Singh decides to marry her. They have a baby girl. And Buta is pretty happy that despite being overage, matrimonially speaking, he's leading a pleasant life. Others of his class usually had to actually buy women from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar whom they married. A jealous uncle who realizes the family property will now go to the Muslim girl, forcibly dumps Buta's wife into a truck bound for Pakistan. Buta realizes what has happened, sells all his land and goes along with his child to Pakistan illegally. He's quickly arrested and brought before a judge who's quite willing to free him if his wife owns up. But, under pressure from her family, the girl backs off. A disillusioned and distraught Buta jumps with his daughter before an oncoming train. He dies, but his daughter is saved. Pakistani youth, overcome by this, hail him thus: Shaheed-e-Mohabat (a martyr in the cause of love), erect a memorial and a trust in his name. —Jalwehra

After being critically wounded and losing his left arm, Captain Jaswant Kumar is discharged from the Indian army and goes to live with Journalist A.V. Razdan in Shanti Nagar, Bombay. Ironically, Shanti Nagar is far from peaceful as it is ruled by extortionists like Peter Gonsalves and Jaichand Khurana who work for underworld don, Taneja. Jaswant and a local taxi-driver, Raju Varma, decide to put up a fight and attempt to drive the goons away - with considerable success much to the chagrin of Taneja, who hires a killer named Raaka to do away with them. Instead they end up befriending Raaka and join forces against Taneja himself. But Jaswant and Raju will soon find out that Raaka never befriends anyone and always disposes off his enemies when they end up getting arrested for smuggling and are sentenced to two years in prison - leaving Taneja and his men to carry on with their nefarious activities. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) After his left arm gets amputated due to a critical injury; Captain Jaswant Kumar tender his resignation with the Indian army and goes to live with an activist, A.V. Razdan in Shanti Nagar. Shanti Nagar is terrorized and hold to random by tyrants like Peter Gonsalves and Jaichand Khurana who owes allegiance to a notorious criminal, Taneja. Unable to witness this Jaswant partnered by his taxi-driver friend, Raju Varma attempts to bring them to justice albeit with considerable progress. This then trigger Taneja to hire professional killer, Rakka to get rid of Jaswant and Raju but they end up befriending Rakka. Ironically a surprise awaits Jaswant and Raju when they will find out the real reason why Rakka befriends them when they are jailed on charges of smuggling leaving the wrong-doers to continue with their nefarious activities. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)