In a remote region in India there has been a tradition of settling differences by fighting a duel with pistols with only one bullet in each of them. Such was the duel fought by Shankar and Thakur Bhavani Singh with the latter emerging as the victor. Years later Bhavani`s son Prithvi returns from London meets Shankar`s son Gora and daughter Tara befriends them and eventually both Tara and Prithvi fall in love with each other. When Bhavani finds this out he wants Prithvi to marry Rajeshwari who comes from a rich family and will destroy Gora Shankar and his tribe of gypsies. Unable to make up his mind Prithvi ends up marrying both women leading to Tara giving birth to a son Pratap. Bhavani is enraged when he this out he has Tara and a lot of their people slain and their homes torched.