Suraj (Abhishek Bachchan), a simple village man who, comes to Mumbai from Benaras to earn a degree in college. He gets smitten by a light-eyed beauty Pooja (Rani Mukerji). After some dilly-dallying the duo express their love for each other.

Suraj has big dreams. He wants to emulate his mentor Naved Ali (Jackie Shroff) a shrewd media baron. Then, one day, in a heroic deed in which Suraj saves the life of a fatally wounded man, Suraj impresses Naved Ali. A flattered Naved sends his raunchy colleague Lara (Sushmita Sen) to rope in Suraj to start a new channel.

Slowly the callow youth becomes a clever businessman and Lara begins to take Pooja’s place. Pooja tries to convince Suraj of the futility of it all but only in vain. Suraj is determined to carve a place for himself in the higher echelons of the society. Soon he has everything he ever wanted and dreamed of – a swanky bungalow, sleek cars etc. But he has lost his innocence.

And one day Suraj realizes the dastardly motives of Naved Ali (who wants to become the PM of the country) and how he has been used as a pawn in his power game.

• Abhishek Bachchan ... Suraj Shrivastav
• Rani Mukerji ... Pooja
• Sushmita Sen ... Lara Oberoi
• Jackie Shroff ... Naved Ali
• Gulshan Grover ... Sardar Sweety Singh
• Jennifer Kotwal...Abhishek Bachchan's sister
• Anang Desai ... Chandan Shrivastav (Suraj's dad)
• Smita Jaykar ... Mrs.Gayetri Shrivastav (Suraj's mom)
• Himani Shivpuri ... Gayetri's sister-in-law
• Sharat Saxena ... Balkishan Deshpande
• Suchitra Pillai-Malik ... Reporter (as Suchitra Pillai)

The Delhi Police arrested two persons including film producer Tanya Behl on charges of assaulting two city photographers during the shooting of this movie.