In the notorious Musheerabad prison three men await the executioner's rope when naive reporter, Chandrika (Juhi Chawla) enters their lives.
As she tries to unravel a mystery involving the three Death Row prisoners -- Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer accused of murdering his wife, Nagya, (Nageesh Kukunoor) an angry young man who proclaims his innocence and Ishaan (Naseeruddin Shah), a petty thief and natural charmer who believes he can con his way out of prison, she uncovers more evidence everything is not as it seems inside this world within a world.