When an imminent drought threatens to ruin their crop, Rambhi (Shabana Azmi) and her husband Veeram (Milind Gunaji) move from their village to the city. Through threat, violence and blackmail, Veeram makes a career as a kind of mafia don in the corrupt political system, but it turns out he is no more than a puppet of an influential lawyer who has him killed when Veeram decides not to kill any more.
The lawyer thinks he can turn Rambhi into yet another puppet of his plans, but she strikes back, taking revenge for her husband's murder and fighting the corrupt political system until she becomes a veritable mafia Godmother herself.