Circa the British rule in India a man named Senapathy decides to rebel against the British in a violent way learns a rare martial art that enables him to kill with his bare hands and travels to Singapore joins the Indian Liberation Army formed by renowned Subhash Chandra Bose is one of the soldier`s to engage the British into war. He subsequently joins a death squad in order to destroy British tanks. While all of the others succeed in carrying out their mission Senapathy is captured jailed beaten and mercilessly tortured by the British. Upon his release he is looked after by a woman named Namrata whose honor he had saved from the British - who had captured two truckloads of women protesters burned their clothing and forced them to commit suicide. Namrata and Senapathy marry India gains independence and they soon have two children - Chandrabose and Kasthoori. Years later Chandra quarrels with his honest and straight-laced father leaves home so that he can earn enough mo