Vidhaata

Shamsher Singh (Dilip Kumar), his son Pratap Singh (Suresh Oberoi), and daughter-in-law lead a happy life in an Indian village. Shamsher works as an engine driver with his friend Gurbaksh Singh (Shammi Kapoor). Pratap is appointed as the new inspector-in-charge of the village but is killed brutally by Jagawar Chaudhary (Amrish Puri), a notorious local smuggler, after Pratap refuses to help Jagawar in his illegal activities. Seeing his son dead, Shamsher Singh is enraged and he kills some of Jagawars goons whom he had seen throwing his sons dead body in the forest. When he is about to inquire from one of Jagawars men about the person behind his sons murder, he is stopped by the police and is asked to surrender; Shamsher somehow manages to escape.

His daughter-in-law dies while giving birth to Kunal Singh (Sanjay Dutt).Shamsher takes his grandson Kunal and leaves his village to hide from the police. In the hope of making quick money, to secure his grandsons future, Shamsher starts working for Sir Mizya (Shreeram Lagoo), a powerful underworld don, and takes on a new identity as Sir Shobraj. Over the course of time, he becomes a wealthy and powerful smuggler and the chairman of the Mizya Group.Meanwhile, Kunal grows up under the strict supervision of Shamshers loyal employee Abu Baba (Sanjeev Kumar).

He falls in love with Durga (Padmini Kolhapure), a beautiful slum girl and the daughter of one of Shamshers old employee Ganpat. However, things take an ugly turn when Shamsher Singh disagrees to let Kunal marry Durga because of her being from a poor background; he instead warns Durgas mother (Sudha Shivpuri) to leave the city with her daughter or else face serious consequences.Although Durga is unwilling to leave at first, she later agrees to sacrifice her love and leaves with her mother in a ship to Goa where Shamshers men try to rape her. Abu Baba comes to their rescue and saves them but is killed by Shamshers men with the help of Jagawar, who has become a powerful smuggler of Goa. Kunal is devastated after seeing Abu Babas dead body and promises to take revenge.

His investigations into Abu Babas death eventually lead to the true identity of his grandfather and about his fathers killers.