Plot

Bishan loses his fortune while helping his friend Kishan in his singing career. Now successful, would Kishan return the favour?

Multi-millionaire Bishan Kumar and orphan Kishan are inseparable friends and live in the same house with Bishan's widowed mother and a maid servant. Bishan's father was responsible for the sentence of his uncle who has a criminal background; after completing his sentence Bishan's uncle pleads with his mother who forgives and accepts him and his son, Jagdish to live in the house together with them. While Kishan is a hardworking farmer who cultivates a plot of land Bishan goes abroad to further his education. Years later Bishan return as an adult only to renew his friendship with Kishan who is also an adult; Bishan then finds that Kishan has a golden voice which cannot be recognize in the village but can be heart rendering in the world of music in the city. Meanwhile Kishan is introduced to Bishan's wife, Sheela and son, Munna. Bishan decides to make all arrangements to take Kishan to the city; at first he refuses but later on agrees when Bishan convinces him. In the city Kishan gets to perform in his first singing concert which turns out to be a success rendering Kishan as an over-night star; his life changes when he gets to learn that Bishan's uncle and his son, Jagdish has embezzled all the family's assets and money, his wife and son is no longer with him and he had borrowed huge sums of money to fund him as a star. Kishan then decides he will use his musical talents to fund back his friend thus stabling him back to square one but unfortunately Bishan is hold as a hostage by his uncle and Jagdish on a yacht he once owned and is forced into confessing that he had a hand in abducting numerous school children. When Kishan gets word about this it stresses him into being a mentally unfit patient who is admitted to a mental asylum.—gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)

Bishen and Kishen are childhood friends.Years later Bishen comes to his village and takes Kishen to the city as he is blessed with a great voice.Bishen puts all efforts to make him a singer.After becoming successful singer,Kishen finds that Bishen has sold everything to make him a singer and now is at the mercy of his evil uncle.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com

Young Bishan Kumar lives a wealthy lifestyle with his widowed mom, his best friend, Kishan, a former servant cum cook, and both are virtually inseparable. Bishan's uncle was partly responsible for his dad's death, and after serving a long prison sentence, begs his sister to forgive him, which she does, and he, along with his son, Jagdish, move in to the house. He convinces his sister to permit Bishan to go to Bombay for further studies, and then abroad also. Years later, Bishan returns home to renew his friendship bond with Kishan, and also introduce him to his wife, Sheela, and son, Munna. When Bishan finds out that Kishan has a golden voice, he wants him to start training in Bombay with Bharatji, which Kishan reluctantly does. After he finishes his training, he goes forth with his first concert, which is a huge success and becomes a star overnight. It is then he finds out that Bishan has lost everything, his wife and son have left him, and his uncle and cousin had embezzled all the money. Kishan uses his only asset, his voice, to restore Bishan's glory only to find out that a desperate Bishan has abducted a group of school-girls, abroad a yacht that he used to own, demanding huge ransoms from their respective parents. Subsequently, Kishan learns that Bishan is dead. Unable to handle this shock, Kishan loses his mental balance and is hospitalized. The question remains, what compelled Bishan to abduct the school-girls, and how did Bishan actually die?—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Kishan (Amitabh Bachchan) and Bishan (Amjad Khan) are childhood friends. Kishan is an orphan, but is self-sufficient and hard-working, while Bishan comes from an affluent background. The friendship between the two is extremely strong and is the bane of Bishan's uncle Chacha (Jeevan), who has his eyes on his widowed sister's wealth (He thinks the friendship can come in the way of him having complete sway over his sister's financial affairs). In a bid to separate the two friends, the uncle manipulates his sister into sending Bishan away to the city and then abroad for further education. Kishan was offered by Bishan's mom, but he wont go on someone else's money. He says he still have his father's debt to repay.

When the two friends reunite years later, Bishan (Amjad Khan) discovers that Kishan (Amitabh Bachchan) has a great voice. Bishan is now a successful businessman and he wants to promote Kishan's singing talent. Kishan goes to the city with his friend (Bishan makes him promise on his birthday), where Bishan asks Komal (Neetu Singh) (she is the daughter of the music academy owner) to groom him to be a performer and a gentleman. Kishan doesn't know that Bishan has paid the music academy Rs 50K for Kishan training and grooming. Kishan tries to get expelled from the process by being uncooperative and disruptive. Johnny (Kader Khan) is Bishan's driver.

In the meantime, Bishan discovers that the family wealth has been systematically looted over the last 18 years by the uncle and his son. He is forced to borrow by mortgaging his remaining assets in order to ensure that Kishan becomes a successful singer (The Rs 50K check that Bishan had given, has bounced. So Bishan borrows against his house & ship to continue Kishan's training and to pay for the stadium where Kishan's first concert will be held). This causes a major rift between Bishan and his wife Sheela (Tanuja), who is convinced that Kishan will turn his back on his friend if he were to ever succeed. Due to his theatrics Kishan is about to kicked off the academy, but changes his tune when he finds that Bishan has planned a huge launch for him and staked everything on his future. Komal trains him personally.

On the night of the debut concert Sheela leaves Bishan and takes away their son. Kishan gets cold feet and cant sing without Bishan on his debut night. Komal tells him she loves him and Kishan gets his confidence back. Kishan's debut concert is a huge success and he goes on to donate the proceeds of his earnings and consequent record deals in order to rid his friend Bishan of his many mortgages and in order to help woo his estranged sister-in-law and lovable nephew (Bishan's 10-year-old son) back into the house.

Kishan proceeds to become a star and Komal (Neetu Singh) - his trainer professes her love for him. Bishan in the meanwhile falls into a conspiracy further set by his treacherous uncle (Jeevan) and cousin Jagdish (Ranjeet). He is kidnapped alongside several hostages - primarily children on his shipping vessel, brainwashed, tortured and forced to sign a confession that all the misdeeds have been done by him. Bishan had filed a police complain against his uncle and Jagdish, and as such they were branded as criminals. So, now they wanted to prove that Bishan hijacked his own ship so as to repay his creditors. This was Bishan will be dis-credited and his uncle and Jagdish would be considered his victims and not oppressors.

Bishan loses his mental stability (when Jagdish threatens hang little kids unless Bishan signs the confession) and goes into shock. Johnny escapes from the Island where the hostages have been kept. Johnny tries to contact Kishan, who tracks Johnny, but Johnny dies in a car accident. Meanwhile Bishan also escapes from the Island.. The kids are still kept hostage by Bishan's uncle and Jagdish

Bishan is then thrown into an asylum after he has a breakdown and experiences amnesia. Kishan pretends to be mentally ill and admits himself into the asylum by tricking the authorities and saves his friend by reviving his memory successfully by feeding him Rotis as he used to when they were children.

The climax follows the typical action confrontation formula reminiscent of films in that era where there are big explosions and the heroes take on hordes of goons all by themselves. Jagdish and uncle have asked parents to give ransom money for release of the kids, but they intend to blow up the kids with explosives after the money exchanges hands.. Kishan attacks from the front, and Bishan enters the caves from behind to rescue the kids. The movie ends with the children - hostages being saved, the family uniting and the treacherous mastermind Jagdish (Ranjeet) being sent to jail.