- When his wife makes a vow to abort their baby cause of his alcoholism, Gannu a ne'er do-well, protests to ban alcohol in his town while struggling with his own boozing habits.
- When his wife makes a vow to abort their baby cause of his alcoholism, Gannu a ne'er do-well, protests to ban alcohol in his town while struggling with his own boozing habits. Gannu runs errands and small duties like extortion and election booth captures for Dauji, making him Dau's immediate favourite. A prominent man in State politics Dauji, once Gannu's ally, becomes his biggest adversary when Gannu's futile protest to ban alcohol in town catches momentum, as all the women in the town join the protest. A directionless Gannu finds purpose in his stride to save his child.
- The setting is village Jagodhar. Nirmala (Shriya Pilgaonkar) regrets the day she decided to marry Gannu (Jitendra Kumar) just because he was cute. Four years into their marriage, Nirmala is pregnant, but she doesn't want to have her child since Gannu is a drunkard who doesn't have a stable job in his hands. Kunne (Aditya Sinha) is a servant Gannu's party office. Other party workers include Chainta (Abhishek Srivastava), Jagat (Padmesh Krishna Tiwari), Phansi (Akhil Kumar), and so on. Nirmala is the daughter of Head Master (Jagdish Rajpurohit), who had warned her against marrying Gannu, but Nirmala felt confident that she could reform him. Gannu lives in a joint family with his parents, 2 brothers (Ghanshyam & Naresh) and their wives, one sister Shyamli and her husband. To top it off, Gannu's mother is also pregnant at the same time as Nirmala.
Gannu has been working for a politician whom he calls Dauji (Annu Kapoor) in the hopes that he will become a Corporator one day. Dauji has been putting that off, but when he comes to know Gannu's situation, he agrees to make him the Corporator. That should have been the end of Gannu's troubles, but his drinking habits and thoughtless arrogance comes in the way of his happy ending. Satyendra Prasad Trivedi/Satto (Sunil Palwal), who is Gannu's rival, provokes him on the day of the celebrations, and that leads to Gannu hitting him on the head, which is caught on television.
This puts Dauji in a delicate position since he is being questioned by the state CM regarding his support of Gannu, who is looking like a hooligan. Satto is also the son of Dauji's political rival in the party and Dauji knows that he will use this incident to get the maximum political mileage out of it. Therefore, he decides to make Satto the Corporator and asks Gannu to clean up his act and wait for five years. A dejected Gannu again gets drunk and realizes that he needs to create a TV image for himself to get the Corporator role. He is inspired by the images of people going on hunger strike in Delhi and being covered on TV and decides to go to Delhi to fight for himself. Gannu and his drunken entourage create a ruckus at the hunger strike of a respected activist in Delhi and are again covered on TV and are arrested by the police. They are bailed out by Dauji, but their antics leads to him being disowned by Dauji, so Gannu is on his own now.
Meanwhile Janki is a woman in the neighborhood whose husband Chedilal is a drunkard. Janki is distraught since she had worked and struggled for 6 months to save money for her daughter's school fees and her husband spent it on alcohol in one night. Nirmala has to step in to talk to her father and prevent the expulsion of Janki's daughter from school.
Gannu doesn't tell Nirmala about this new turn of events and continues to lie to her, saying that his job is safe. But Satto reveals everything to Nirmala, and she decides to abort her child as she doesn't want to bring a child into the world whose father behaved in such a manner.
Now, Gannu has to get the job of a Corporator at any cost for the sake of his family, so he decides to do things his own way by running for Corporator elections as an independent. He decides to go on a hunger strike, but the various arrangements require funds of Rs 7.5 Lakhs to organize. Gannu ropes in local liquor supplier Balwant as his sponsor. Looking at the efforts he is putting in, Nirmala starts to soften a bit and considers giving him a chance. But once again, Gannu's drinking habits get in the way of his resolve.
During the hunger strike meeting, he is not able to come up with an agenda for the strike, so the crowd is asked to wait until the next day as Gannu is on a vow of silence. A dance performance is arranged for their sake, and when Nirmala sees Gannu's drunken behavior, she walks out of there. This prompts Gannu to seek out more alcohol, and he bickers with his sponsor, Balwant (Shrikant Verma), who is also the local alcohol supplier. When Balwant refuses to supply alcohol to Gannu, he breaks into his shop for the bottles.
The next morning, Gannu is still hungover as he addresses the people whose wives have come to take them away. In a moment of clarity, Gannu remembers the disappointed look on his wife's face and announces that he wants the complete ban of alcohol, and he is on a hunger strike until that happens. Since alcoholism has impacted the households of many people, the women come out in support of Gannu as the men stand against him. When Gannu sees their support, he realizes the responsibility of what he has undertaken, and even Nirmala asks him to consider that. Therefore, for once, Gannu is serious about the cause he has taken up.
Balwant cannot have Gannu's hunger strike succeed, and neither can Dauji, so they send Satto as their Trojan Horse to take him down. Satto pretends to join Gannu's cause against alcohol and makes place for himself in Gannu's inner circle. But Gannu is two steps ahead of them in this matter. He frames Satto for forcing alcohol on him and gets him evicted from the circle. This also leads to a lot of the men having to give up alcohol who were still drinking despite Gannu's cause. There are also many cases being brought up against Gannu, mostly made-up but effective, nonetheless.
When Gannu's about to be arrested, Janki (Kiran Khoje), one of his most ardent supporters, sets herself on fire in protest. Gannu manages to save her in time, but he wants to end the hunger strike since he doesn't want to see more people harmed. But Nirmala reminds him that Janki's home situation was disappointing because of her husband's alcoholism, which is why she felt so strongly about his cause and that he shouldn't give it up now. But the road ahead is not easy for Gannu.
Dauji returns to Gannu's life as the villain. He promises to make him the Corporator and tells him that if he doesn't end the hunger strike right now, he will kill Janki and put the blame on Gannu. Having no choice, Gannu agrees, but he has a trick up his sleeve. Outside, the entire town hates Gannu because they think that he has turned into a traitor for the cause. But Gannu secretly tells a friend something and makes an arrangement.
Meanwhile, Dauji asks Gannu to apologize on stage, where Gannu takes the chance to announce that Dauji is going on a hunger strike himself to make alcohol compulsory in the village. Dauji once again threatens him with the consequences of his actions, and this time, Gannu has recorded his words. He plays them on speaker, thus proving his innocence and effectively stripping Dauji of any power.
Gannu is promised that a bill will be passed that will abolish alcohol. The bill has not been passed and is being debated to this day, but in Gannu's town, the alcohol shops are closed down on charges of selling impure alcohol to customers. Satto is once again in the hospital, and Dauji has to resign from his position. Janki is well and good, and her husband has quit alcohol and started taking responsibility for the household. Gannu's parents have twins, and Nirmala also gives birth to a baby girl, who is named 'Junior Corporator' as she had wished, since her father is also in that position.
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