Ajay Chauhan lives with his parents and younger sister. He is in love with Pooja, and hopes to marry her someday. His father wants him to get a job and settle down, and then get married. Ajay applies for a job in Bombay, and soon receives a letter asking him to appear for an interview. He attends the interview, and is hired. Delighted to see all his dreams coming true, he goes to offer his thanks to God, and it is there a woman named Pratika Jetley sees him and notifies the police that he is indeed the one who had brutally raped three young women in a college campus. Ajay vehemently denies this, but is personally identified and criminally held responsible, convicted and sentenced to prison. Several years later he is released from prison, and finds out that his father and Pooja had committed suicide, his sister had became mentally ill while his mother was untraceable. He sets out to put his life together and meets with a ruthless police inspector, whose daughter was one of the rape victims. It is then Ajay finds out about the conspiracy behind this plot to frame him. A news reporter Ritu (Kajol) helps him track down the real culprits and bring them to justice.

• Ajay Devgan as Ajay Chauhan
• Kajol as Ritu
• Amrish Puri as Police Inspector
• G. Asrani as Gopal
• Mohan Joshi as Raj Bahadur
• Sharat Saxena as Dhika
• Anjali Jathar as Pooja
• Usha Nadkarni as Parvati Chauhan
• Achyut Potdar as Chauhan
• Suresh Chatwal as Interviewer
• Sulabha Arya as Principal Pratika Jetley