[2][3] Honest and diligent Forest Officer Kishan Srivastav (Shroff) and his wife Jaya (Pradha) come to the rural area of Ramgarh, and upset the criminal activities of Thakur Dayalu (Kher), a corrupt police inspector, Kiran Kumar (Kumar) and their cronies.

These activities include the capture and killing of wildlife so that Dayalu can decorate his palatial home.

As Kishan attempts to disrupt their criminal enterprise, he finds that Dayalu Singh has by-passed him and complained to his superiors, thereby getting him dismissed from employment and being framed and imprisoned for a murder.

Dayalu has not only gotten away with murder, but has also killed Gopal (Deol) in the presence of his to-be bride, Jugni (Sridevi), making her lose her sanity.

With Jaya all by herself, Dayalu turns his lustful eyes towards her, but just at the right moment, Ramu, a baby elephant comes to her rescue and fights with the Thakur.

Her son and Ramu the elephant take care of her, doing a street play to earn money for her medicines.

Kiran finds the family and prepares to shoot Kishan; however, Ramu snatches the gun from him using his trunk.

Thakur has an epiphany that he is going to die, and in order to protect himself, he goes back to abduct Jaya, and kills a villager in the process.