- The story of a documentary movie-maker who films the reformation story of three hardened criminals within the prison walls - and in the process, finds redemption in her own life.
- Reporter, Chandrika wants to film a documentary on the life of prisoners and thus seeks permission from Jailer, Mohan Kumar to conduct a study on three prisoners that are soon to be hang - a qualify lawyer, Jagdish Prasad alias Jaggu, guilty of knifing his unfaithful wife multiple times to death, Ishaan Mirza, a con-man, guilty of shooting a pregnant bank teller to death while Naagya causes the death of his wife by pushing her in the midst of a running vehicle.—gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)
- Three men are on death row. Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer and a poet, is serving a sentence for murdering his wife because she was cheating on him with another man. Nagya (Nagesh Kukunoor), a man angry with the whole world, is arrested for murdering his wife too, but he claims that it was an accident where she falls off the sidewalk while they were in the middle of a heated argument. Ishaan (Naseeruddin Shah), a happy-go-lucky man, is also arrested for murder that he commits while in the act of robbery. Ishaan was walking away after robbing a bank, when the pregnant cashier presses the panic button. Ishaan turns back, trips and accidentally fires the gun which hits the woman in her belly, killing both her and her unborn child.
The prison's custodian is Mohan (Gulshan Grover), who attempts several methods to reform the prison's inmates. Ishaan is a new transfer to his jail, and he has already had 6 transfers and 3 jail escapes previously. Nagya is regularly visited by his mom (Ayesha Jalil). and Jaggu by his sister (Aditya Lakhia), who wants him to appeal his death sentence.
A documentary filmmaker, Chandrika (Juhi Chawla) comes to the jail to set a film about these three men, men who have committed a murder and how they or behave until the day they are hanged and what impact a prison system has on them personally. Mohan tells Chandrika that Nagya's murder was a mistake, Ishaan an accident, and Jaggu was planned and Pre-meditated (Jaggu is a lawyer by profession). The 3 men repeat the same. Jaggu thinks he is guilty, Nagya thinks he is innocent, and Ishaan is in between. Jaggu is looking forward to his death, Ishaan is confident that he will find a way out and Nagya believes "Truth will prevail".
In the process, she finds redemption to her troubled marriage. He hubby (Shri Vallabh Vyas) is a MCP and gives no value to her wife. Justice Murthy approaches Chandrika in prison and says that he is Nagya's father-in-law. He wants Chandrika to get Nagya to confess to his crime on tape. He wants Nagya to hang for killing Murthy's daughter, but Nagya is fighting an appeal on grounds that police used 3rd degree on him to extract his confession. In exchange Murthy will spare Chandrika the humiliation of a long-drawn court battle and grant her a quick divorce.
Gautam is a prisoner and has AIDS. He sexually assaults another prisoner Malli, who is good friends with Ishaan. Ishaan wants to kill Gautam but is stopped by Nagya. Ishaan is worried to know that Gautam has sexually assaulted other prisoners before and infected them. Mohan expresses his helplessness as Gautam's brother is a local politician and a state doctor has certified that Gautam does not have AIDS. Ishaan tells Chandrika how his mother killed his father one night, when he tried to hit her after getting drunk (which used to be usual in his house). She served 3 years in prison before committing suicide. Ishaan has all plans to escape if his appeals in court do not succeed. At home, Chandrika's husband tries to have sex with her after getting drunk and blames her saying she is not attractive enough for him. Jaggu tells Chandrika that his date of hanging is set. He is looking forward to die. He asks Mohan permission to cook a grand meal for the entire prison on republic day. Nagya is hurt to hear that Jaggu will be hanged. Jaggu is angry with Nagya for harboring hope that he will be released someday, and that people will believe in his innocence.
Ishaan hits Gautam in his nuts when he is released from solitary. at Home, Chandrika's husband Suri, gets wind of the documentary she is making and insults her by saying that she is sleeping with the prisoners. Chandrika douses Suri with kerosene at night when he is sleeping, and threatens to light him up one night, if he does not grant her a divorce quickly.
Next day Chandrika asks Ishaan 3rd time if he feels remorse. Ishaan says he knows he made a mistake but wants to be a free man. Chandrika says she has fallen in love with him and wants to help him escape (she gets him a small O2 cylinder). Meanwhile Mohan's deputy finds through his informer that Ishaan has a plan to escape. A search of Ishaan's belonging reveals that he has a map of the prison. He questions the guard on the cell and finds that Ishaan has bribed him to skip his name during roll call on republic day. The deputy allows the plan to go ahead and waits for Ishaan on the exit point from the prison at the nearby lake. However, Ishaan escapes in the food prepared by Jaggu (using the O2 cylinder for breathing), when it is loaded onto the truck to be taken for consumers outside the prison.
He meets Chandrika at her house, at a predetermined date and time. He knows Chandrika that she doesn't love him and asks for the real story. Turns out Chandrika was the sister of the woman Ishaan shot that day at the bank. Chandrika takes Ishaan back to the prison at gunpoint, just in time to stop Jaggu's hanging. Ishaan tells Mohan that he escaped the bank after killing Chandrika's sister. On a road crossing, he pushed Nagya's wife and caused her death. He then went to Jaggu's house as he was man whom his wife was cheating with. Ishaan killed Jaggu's wife by throwing her down the stairs when she refused to run away with him. Jaggu came home and stabbed an already dead woman and blamed himself for her death. Jaggu and Nagya are released. Chandrika gives the money stolen by Ishaan to Mohan so he can continue his prisoner reforms system. Chandrika forgives Ishaan by saying that saving 2 lives was just payment in exchange of her sister and her kids death.
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