Plot

After being violently separated from the woman he loves, a young man must disguise himself in order to keep meeting her.

Shahjada Ijjat Beg comes to India with his caravan and settles in a town in Gujrat. Here he falls in love with Sohani, who keeps a shop in metal pots. Ijjat Beg buys pot from her with whatever money he had and they were attracted to each other. Sohni dispensed with her servant and kept Ijjat Beg instead. This gave them more opportunity to meet. This was a scandal in the town and Sohni was perforce married to Rehaman who was slightly off his head. Sohni continued her meeting Ijjat Beg who went out fishing. When the atmosphere became to hot for them they jointly took a water grave for their love.—gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com

Mirza Izzat Beg has visions of the girl he is going to be attracted to; so he takes off to locate her. He does manage to find her whose name is Sohni - in order to be close to her he decides to assist her dad, Tulla in shaping various pottery products for marketing thus Sohni and Mirza fall in love with each other - but there is a major draw-back in this romance as an admirer of Sohni, Noor will go to any length to separate the lovers.—gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)

Mirza Izzat Beg has dreamt of meeting a beautiful girl, and in order to make this a reality he travels to seek her out. He finds her in the shape and form of Sohni, the daughter of a poor pottery maker, Tulla and his wife. Sohni and Izzat both fall in love instantly. Even after leaving her village, Izzat continues to meet Sohni in secret, disguised as a shepherd. But Noor, from Sohni's village, has already decided to marry her, and he creates a gigiantic wall of misunderstandings and obstacles to prevent the two lovers from meeting again.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Peer Baba (Shammi Kapoor) sits in a town on the trade routes of Arabia and is the keeper of ancient tales. A rich tribal lord Ismail Baig from Bukhara comes to the Baba begging for a child, as he and his wife are childless. Baba blesses the couple but says that the resultant child will have to face severe storms in his life and could even die due to the intense storm of love. At the same time came Tulla (Pran) with his wife (Tanuja) from India, begging for their own bundle of love. Baba issues the same warning to Tulla and blesses the couple with a daughter.

20 years later, the boy and the girl have grown up. Tulla daughter is a pottery artist and sends a beautiful water jug to the Baba, via trader named Hasim, as a gift. The Baba asks Hashim to take the jug to Bukhara and give water to the first thirsty person he sees. Back in Bukhara the boy is a tribal prince named Izzat. Izzat wins the tribal sport of Buzkashi, against all the other warriors of the tribe. Hashim reaches Bukhara and gives the jug to Izzat who declares that he is thirsty. Drinking the water, Izzat has visions of a beautiful woman and now wants to go to India to meet her. Ismail knows that this is the test that Baba had foreseen for Izzat. But Ismail allows Izzat to go, as this is destiny and has to be faced.

Shahzada Izzat Beg (Sunny Deol) comes to India with his caravan from Bukhara Uzbekistan and settles in a town called Gujra in Punjab. Salamat (Rakesh Bedi) is Izzat's friend, whom he had freed from slavery during the trip, by paying Salamat's master 1000 Dinars. On the way Izzat also fights the bandit leader Zarina (Zeenat Aman), when her gang attacks the caravan, for feeding water to their enemy. Zarina befriends Izzat when he declares that he will not fight a woman. The enemy Izzat saved was named Jabru, who says that he knows why Zarina became an outlaw.

In Punjab, Izzat falls in love with Sohni (Poonam Dhillon), who keeps a shop of earthen pots with her father Tulla. Izzat Beg buys a pot from her with whatever money he had, and they are attracted to each other. Salamat also falls in love with a girl named Salamati, who is Noor's (Gulshan Grover) sister. Turns out Sohni was already engaged to Jabru, the man whom Izzat saved on the way to the town. Jabru's sister Malkani only knew that he had been abducted by bandit Zara, and didn't know that Jabru had been saved by Izzat. Malkani breaks the engagement with Tulla.

Izzat requests Tulla to teach him the art of pottery, and since Izzat had bought Tulla's entire inventory, he was happy to oblige. Meanwhile Jabru returns to Malkani and reveals that Zara is actually Zarina. It seems that Zarina killed her husband due to Malkani and turned into a bandit. Jabru insists that he will only marry Sohni, but Malkani refuses to set foot in Tulla's house again. Malkani summons Tulla to her house. Malkani says that Sohni will not get a better groom than Jabru, but Tulla refuses to consider the match after being insulted by Malkani. In response, Malkani stops the supply of earthen clay to all potters in town. Only her land supplies the earthen clay.

Izzat uses every opportunity to get close to Sohni, and even kisses her. While Noor is in love with Sohni and resents her relationship with Izzat. Noor approaches Sohni's mother and asks for her hand in marriage as he argues that the news of her engagement breaking will bring much disrespect to the family. Noor also says that he is from the same tribe as Sohni, and hence has the right to propose marriage. But Tulla hates Noor, as Noor was his student who opened his own pottery shop, and now wants to use Sohni's misfortune, to get his hands on Sohni herself. Noor accuses Tulla of selling his daughter to the rich Izzat.

Tulla finds Sohni romancing Izzat and confronts her. Tulla says that it is a matter of honor for him and asks Sohni to stay away from Izzat. Noor complains to Zarina that a foreigner entered the village and bought his love with the might of money. Zarina has the foreigner abducted, only to find that it is Izzat. Noor challenges Izzat to a duel and is easily defeated. Izzat tells Zarina that Sohni loves him, but spares Noor's life as he knows that Noor also loves Sohni and that is not a crime.

Zarina tells her own story to Izzat. She says that she loves a poor man named Rashid. She eloped with him, after her family refused to accept their love. But once she eloped, she found that Rashid was already in love with Malkani. Zarina stabs Rashid to death and turns into an outlaw.

The potters beg Malkani to restart the supply for earthen clay. Malkani wants Tulla to marry Sohni to Jabru as her condition to restart the supply of clay. The potters try to convince Tulla, but he asks for more time to make a decision.

Meanwhile, Sohni and Izzat continue to meet, which is seen by Noor. Izzat was staying in the village in the disguise of a cow herder. He had bribed the original cow herder named Mahiwal to give his clothes to him, and the original to leave the village. Noor knew this, and he poisons the buffaloes, while Izzat was romancing Sohni. The villagers find Izzat in the disguise of the cow herder and beat him up.

The village Panchayat decide that Izzat poisoned the cattle to take revenge on the village when they refused to marry Sohni to him. He is sentenced to death by hunger. The Panchayat also decides that Sohni will be married to Jabru to resolve the issue with Malkani. After several days, with Izzat nearing death, Sohni agrees to marry Jabru to save Izzat's life.

But now, Jabru finds Izzat on the streets with Salamat, and brings him home for treatment. When Izzat recovers, he realizes that Jabru is the guy engaged to Sohni now. Since Jabru is his friend, Izzat decides not to reveal the truth to Jabru. But Noor realizes the issue and reveals everything to Malkani. Noor says that this is Izzat's ploy since after the wedding both Izzat and Sohni will be living under Malkani's roof. Noor then goes to Zarina and says that Izzat's Sohni is being married forcefully to Jabru.

On the day of the wedding, Noor attacks Izzat when he is alone and abducts him with his goons. Noor reveals to Izzat that he was the one who poisoned the cattle. He also says that Zarina will kill Malkani and Jabru at Tulla's house and this way Sohni will end up with Noor. Izzat defeats Noor and rushes back to the village to the wedding with Salamat. Due to a storm, their horse falls down, injuring Izzat.

Zarina confronts Malkani at the wedding and says that the wedding is happening without the bride's consent. Jabru is shocked to find that Sohni loved Izzat, his best friend, and was only engaged to him so that the villagers could get clay from Malkani's land. Jabru divorces Sohni.

Salamat reaches the wedding and reveals how Malkani sent Noor to kill Izzat. Sohni rushes to Izzat who is lying injured by the river. Sohni and Izzat enter the stormy river from opposite ends and meet in the middle and drown together in embrace.