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A gifted young man from a drought-stricken village helps a group of ecologists find water for migrating flamingoes.

Jal is the story of young, willful BAKKA who is gifted with a special ability to find water in the desert. With the backdrop of water scarcity, the film tells a complex and intriguing story of love, relationships, enmity, deceit and circumstances that bring about the dark side of human character. It is a high-octane, action- drama with a shocking climax.—Anonymous

Jal revolves around a young man named Bakka, who is gifted with a special ability to find water in the desert. With the backdrop of water scarcity, the film tells a complex and intriguing story of love, relationships, enmity, deceit and circumstances that bring about the dark side of human character.

Jal revolves around a young man named Bakka (Purab Kohli), who is gifted with a special ability to find water in the desert. With the backdrop of water scarcity, the film tells a complex story of love, relationships, enmity, deceit and circumstances that bring about the dark side of human character. Jal is an action-drama with a unique climax. Shot on an large scale, the film highlights Rann of Kutch (a 30,000 sq km barren wasteland with temps in range of 45 to 50 degrees Celsius). The Rann has a salt water lake in the middle of it, where sea water comes in with the tide from time to time. In a desert village in Rann of Kutch, Bakka is helping the villagers find water. Bakka loves Kesar (Kirti Kulhari), a girl from the rival village and it forbidden from taking it any further with her.

Nearby a foreigner Kim (Saidah Jules) is visiting the Kunchh lake to take photographs of the flamingos. Her arrival is constituted by adventurous villagers to be a sign of their chance to make a porn film with her, including the village elder Velabhai (Habib Aazmi), Rakla (Ravi Gossain) & Manga (Vicky Ahuja). Dhankibai (Kusum Ahir) is the tour guide to Kim. Kim hires a few villagers to work for her to clean up the lake, and Dhankbai is jealous as the villagers flock to work for her as they want to ogle at her. One day Kim drives off into the night and finds herself stranded in the desert the next morning. She finds an abandoned well and drinks water from it, but doesn't realize that it belongs to the rival village. She is attacked by Kesar and gang, and is saved only by timely intervention by Bakka. Bakka & Puniya (Mukul Dev) (warrior of the rival village), exchange bitter words to stay off each other's territory.

Kim investigates the death of Flamingo chicks and finds that due to lack of fresh water, the lakes have become very acidic and this is killing the chicks. She wants to dig wells to bring in fresh water into the lakes, but the village elders refuse to work on the project as they believe there isn't enough water even for humans. Bakka convinces them to let the project begin as water will eventually be there for everyone.

Kim gets professional drillers from the city to dig for water. They select 2 spots, but Bakka predicts that they wont get water there. One day Bakka is dispatched to steal water from the rival village. He spots Kesar taking a bath, alone. He enters the bath & daringly seduces her and ends up licking her vagina. Meanwhile Kim and her team strike out in 3 places and don't find water. Rakla speaks to Kim and convinces her to dig where Bakka points. After 2 unsuccessful attempts, the team strikes water at the 3rd location. Kajri (Tannishtha Chatterjee), a village belle, secretly loves Bakka, but is heartbroken when she sees Bakka and Kesar playing footsie with each other. Matters come to a head when Bakka declares that his price for finding water for his village will be his marriage to rival village Belle Kesar. This leads to a fight between Punia and Bakka, which Bakka wins. Kim declares that she has managed to get Bakka a government job as a water conservation person. The village elders of the rival villages meet and agree to the wedding as they believe Bakka is crucial to both. Bakka and Kesar are married. They don't come out of their honey-room suite for 10 straight days.

Kim has to leave as her assignment comes to an end. Now Bakka is distraught that Kesar has to travel large distances to fetch water and asks Kim's senior for borrow the digger for 2 days to dig a well for the village. Kim's senior gives false hopes to Bakka by telling him that he will provide the machine if the villagers can arrange money for the diesel. The villagers, led by Kajri, mortgage their jewels to arrange diesel for the machine. Bakka hides the jewels in the desert with only Rakla knowing where they are. Kim's senior and Dhankibai refuse access to the digger to the villagers and brush Bakka off. Bakka & Rakla bribe Dhankibai with the jewels to get the digger to the village. Dhankibai complies, but the machine breaks down while digging in the village. Dhankibai panics and returns the machine along with Bakka, while Bakka asks Rakla to return the jewels to the villagers.

Dhankibai and Bakka deal with Kim's senior and the police (police got involved when Kim's senior finds the machine missing), and Bakka loses his Govt job. Bakka returns to find Rakla and the jewels missing. Nearby he finds Rakla's dead body, with no sign of the jewels. It is revealed later that Punia killed Rakla to frame Bakka, who was working in cahoots with Dhankibai. Bakka buries Rakla's body and does not reveal to anyone that he is dead. Bakka is afraid that villagers will accuse him of Rakla's murder. Eventually though the villagers find out that Rakla is dead and banish Bakka and Kesar from the village. The rival village, led by Punia, also shuns them.

Bakka and Kesar are forced to live alone in Rann. Kesar is livid with thirst and Bakka is forced to steal water from his village. The villagers catch him and banish him into the deep desert. Kajri, meanwhile takes some water to Kesar. Kajri finds Kesar being forced upon sexually by Punia, who found Kesar alone. She offers herself to Punia to spare Kesar. Kajri admits to Kesar that if it was not Bakka's child, she would have allowed Kesar to be sexually molested and violated. Bakka and Kesar survive, and Bakka eventually finds water, but Kesar dies of thirst. Bakka commits suicide. 6 months later, Kajri receives a courier from Kim, with a magazine that features Bakka as the savior of the flamingos of Kutch, with a check for 2 Lakhs.