In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.

Ran and Leela are passionately in love with each other. The only problem is that their respective clans have been enemies for 500 years.

Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with…