The film follows the story of Shankar, who is regarded as a criminal by the society after being in jail for ten years since childhood.

[1] Shankar (Mithun Chakraborty) was jailed at the age of thirteen, when he killed his uncle, who tried to sell his mother Yashoda (Nutan) to a rich and powerful man called Khan (Amrish Puri).

Thus, he joins a group of criminals, whose leader is a generous man called Malik (Sharat Saxena).

He loses his friends in endless fights with the police, and finally, when Sonia finds out that she is pregnant, she leaves him and comes to live with Yashoda.

The soundtrack album featured very well known singers Alka Yagnik and Sadhana Sargam who made here one of their first playback singing steps.