Amidst strictly enforced curfew by Bombay Police during December 1992 following Hindu-Muslim riots, Suryakant - one of four siblings from Malad's Malvani slums, heads home. While doing so, he reflects on his childhood; his sisters: Devi and Rajni; brother Chandrakant; his dad, Shashikant, as well his mother; his expertise with the Carrom-board; run-ins with extortionist-goon, Jaleel Khan; his friendship with Zaid Khan; his crush on Noorie as well as his plans to find employment in Dubai; why he could not attend Devi's marriage, as well as the tragedy that awaits him.

Srikrishna lives with his father who works as a movie projectionist in a village. Things take a turn when his girlfriend, Satya, starts getting harassed by a politician's son, Vicky.

An idealistic English filmmaker casts a group of student actors in her docudrama about India's revolution against British rule in the 1920s.