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Jagatpal raises his nephews, Ram and Balram, after killing their parents. He hatches an evil plan to push Ram into the world of smuggling and earn money, but the brothers unite to take him down.

This is about a boy brought up among bandits - can he have a change of heart? It is about rule of law, humanity, sacrifice and bravery. A band of orphans come together helped by a doctor and a policeman to take revenge.

Police Inspector Sultan Singh comes from a poor family and lives with his mom, Rukmani, and dad, Ram Singh. He is asked by his superiors to work in the region of his village under Police Inspector Rajiv Chouhan, which he accepts. When he arrives home, his finds his parents destitute, his father, Ram Singh, a bonded laborer under the cruel control of Thakur Shankar Singh and his equally cruel brothers Bhushan, & Zaalim. When he finds out that his father is being whipped, he decides to intervene, a fight ensues, he ends up killing one of the Thakur's employee, his father is killed, he is arrested by Inspector Chouhan, but manages to escape and become a bandit himself, out to avenge his father's death and his mother humiliation. He comes to the aid of a dancer named Ramkali, but finds out subsequently that she has an alias - that of Bandit Raksha, who is also on the path of revenge against Shankar Singh and his brothers. What Sultan does not know is that Raksha and Ramkali are two different people, and that Raksha has a boyfriend named Inspector Dilip Singh, who has been assigned to arrest him at any cost - dead or alive.

Rural outlaw Raja protects villagers from corruption until his attraction to dancer Janiya complicates her life. When rivals kidnap her, he must venture beyond his territory on a perilous rescue mission.

Mangal Singh played by Vinod Khanna is a dreaded dacoit of the Chambal valley who mercilessly loots people and kills them and has a reward of Rs. 5000 on his head which becomes Rs.50,000. His lady love is Champa, played by Reena Roy, who wants him to leave this life and get married to her. On the other side of the coin is Bhola, a village simpleton, extremely honest and religious, who is very poor and so is scolded by his mother played by Achala Sachdev. Taking offense he decides to end his life and in the process is caught by Mangal Singh's aides, who take him to Mangal Singh. When Mangal Singh comes to know that Bhola wanted to end his life due to poverty, he trades with him that as Mangal Singh's true identity is not known by the police, Bhola should become Mangal Singh, get caught deliberately and hang instead of him, whence the real Mangal Singh will collect the reward of Rs.50,000 from the government and give to Bhola's family. The course of events however reveal that Mangal Singh is in reality Bhola's true brother. Also Bhola's lady love, played by Rekha will not let him commit suicide and chides him for running after money. The police however have already recognized Bhola as dacoit Mangal Singh. Will Bhola's stance be vindicated and what will be the fate of the real dacoit Mangal Singh?

A notorious bandit continues to elude the authorities and strikes terror in the region.

The story of bandit queen Phoolan Devi, who was sent to prison in 1983 and released in 1994.

Village belle Durga lives a fairly peaceful existence, until her gypsy father gets in the bad books of Thakur Dharampal Singh, and is severely beaten. He joins a band of robbers and takes revenge against the Thakur, who in turn, kills his family. Durga helplessly watches her family die, and the police refusing to get involved against the powerful and influential Thakur, leaving her with only one choice - join forces with her father, and become a thug and robber herself - and make her one of Indian police's most wanted criminals.

Shera hijacks a bus in return of his 25 prisoners.Amar,Qasim Ali and Karan free the hijacked passengers but Shera escapes.Shera does not keep quite and this time kidnaps Qasim's son in return of those prisoners.

Arjun Yadav return from the city after completing his studies to get settled in his village with his family consisting of his mother Devi Chaudaran, his older brother Amrit and sister. Arjun finds out that Amrit and Thakur Bhanwar Singh does not get along quiet well and attempts to be a peace-maker between the two. One day situation takes a turn for the worse when Amrit is killed, Devi Chaudaran loses her senses, Arjun's sister is raped and he himself is beaten and tied to a tree. Arjun is then rescued by some sympathetic villagers and run off with his childhood friend Makan Malla in the deep ravines only to turn an outlaw whose only motive is to avenge the killings of his family members.

After Birju is framed in the rape and murder case of his lover, Ganga, by an evil Bhairon Singh, his sibling, Ramu, a soldier, returns from the war and decides to avenge his brother's honour.

Thakur Jaswant Singh rules over the region with a iron hand. He has no pity or empathy for the poor, all he is interested in is their money, their women, and alcohol. After the passing away of his dad, he assumes total control over the region, and increases the taxes. One day while walking across the hallway, he trips over the wet floor, and falls down. He gets up angrily and assaults the old woman, Ramvati, who was washing the floor. His abuse is interrupted by the arrival of Ramvati's son, Jeeva, who intervenes. Jaswant is ready to shoot him down, but Jaswant's mom prevents him from doing so. Word gets around that Jeeva is in the bad books of the Thakur, and soon a number of people start consipiring against Jeeva. The next day Jeeva is summoned before the village council and asked to explain his involvement in the death of a cow. Jeeva has no satisfactory explanation, and he is asked to leave the village immediately with his mother. Jeeva refuses to do so, and is severely beaten, and thrown out. Shortly thereafter his mother passes away, and Jeeva decides to avenge her death by bringing about the downfall of Jaswant Singh. In order to do this, he becomes a dacait. Jeeva swears on the holy river Ganga to wipe out Jaswant Singh and his men, without knowing his decision will bring him into conflict with the police, and with the honest people from the very community he was exiled from.

Ajit Singh and his younger brother, Ranjeet Singh's marred childhood days forces them to form a gang of bandits. When Ranjeet meets Aasha Sinha he is attracted to her and decides to onus himself from the gang much to the displeasure of his brother and right-hand man, Saru. Ranjeet then re-locates to the city to lead a common man's life with Aasha only to find himself arrested, convicted and imprisoned. Sarju then forcibly takes over as leader of the den of bandits abducting Aasha and holding Ajit as hostages until such time Ranjeet is able to make a compromise. Ranjeet then seeks the assistance of the police but they would only help him conditionally forcing him to escape from prison to free the hostages as well as even scores with Sarju.

When Ajit, a former prisoner, learns of Jabbar who is terrorising the people of his village, he decides to stand up against him. However, things take a turn when Jabbar abducts Ajit's lover.

Gungaram, a poor, indebted farmer, works hard to educate his younger brother Jumna and make him a police officer. Years later, circumstances force Gungaram to become an outlaw and now the brothers confront each other as enemies.

A simple-minded small-time singer joins a group of bandits and becomes the cause for their moral transformation and turnaround.

In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code.