The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the…

The film opens with an arrogant subedar (Naseeruddin Shah) (local tax collector in colonial India) and his soldiers rampaging through a village. The subedar has an eye for women and…

Following his wife goes away attempting to cross a hill, Manjhiout of utter anger, puts to a quest to carve a road through the dangerous mountain.