Sachin Tichkule (Akshay Kumar), a small time contractor, is desperate to succeed in a society that is skewed heavily towards the corrupt, the mean, the selfish and the law breakers. He gives up his collegiate Gandhian philosophy and is even ready to pay the mandatory bribes and do a bit of wheeling-dealing to move ahead in life, specially when he sees his kith and kin succumbing to greed and grime. But, a chance meeting with his erstwhile girlfriend (Trisha), now an honest and upright municipal commissioner, rings in the requisite conscience call. The rest is mera Bharat mahaan