A new modern version of GOVIND NILHANI's AAKROSH 1980,starring Om puri, Naseeruddin shah, Amrish puri, Smita patil, Mohan Agashe.
It's based on the story of torture and injustice done to a poor peasant of a low caste by the upper society and well to do ones.
The peasant's wife is gang raped by the antiheros and the peasant itself is blamed and sent to jail for the murder blame of his wife by himself.
This case is a open and shut case handled by the public prosecutor amrishpuri and defence Naseeruddin shah(Bhaskar), where the latter has worked a junior to the former and treat the former as his mentor.
The whole film shows the past and present of the incident to make the audience get in to the intense of the event and it's consequences faced by all the characters of the movie.
There are many other characters such as a social reformist, hench man of anto heros, a doctordoctor, a landownder, a politician and a minister too.