When Ajay Desai's (Ajay Devgan) mother is burnt alive by a mob, during the 1993 Bombay riots, he is forced to confront his explosive past. Ajay?s mother (Pooja Bhatt) had been a woman living under the shadow of humiliation. The mistress of a famous film director, who died before he could legally marry her and legitimize his two children, she had hidden the fact that she was a Muslim.
Her dying wish is to be buried according to the tenets of her own religion. But Ajay?s younger brother is the right-hand man of a Hindu fundamentalist leader. Fulfilling his mother?s wish during the communal riots, becomes the most dangerous mission that Ajay must undertake.