The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore, John Abraham and Sanjay Dutt .Viruddh is not a musical, instead the soundtrack is primarily used as background scoring.

Amar is the son of Vidyadhar (Amitabh Bachchan) and Sumitra Patwardhan (Sharmila Tagore), a middle-class couple in India.

One day Amar returns home with Jenny Mayer (Anusha Dandekar), his girlfriend, and announces his intention to marry her.

One day, Amar goes out celebrating with his friends, while his parents and Jenny organise a surprise birthday party for him.

The torture doesn't end there, as police try to implicate Jenny as his accomplice and threaten to rape her.

Ali Asgar (Sanjay Dutt), a reformed goon and mechanic, also an acquaintance of the Patwardhans, decides to help them.

Soon, Ali succeeds in procuring a gun for Vidyadhar, after all efforts to prove Amar's innocence go in vain.