When a group of dacoits gets split after their leader is killed, they decide to run away. On the way, they meet Indumati and Khushi, who are chased by the former's family to be killed.
A down and out cop lands the case of a lifetime when four suspects are nabbed in the assassination attempt of a prime time journalist. The case turns out to be a devious maze where nothing is what it looks like. The pursuit of it leads him to the dark netherworld - the 'Paatal Lok', and to shocking discoveries in the past of the four suspects.
