Rajaram P. Joshi (Naseeruddin Shah) Is A Middleclass Clerk Living In A Chawl
In Bombay. He Is Secretly In Love With His Neighbor, Sandhya Karnik (Deepti
Naval) But Is Unable To Disclose His Love For Her. Rajarams Fasttalking
Friend, Bashudev (Farooq Shaikh) Comes For A Visit And Makes Himself At Home.
Bashudev Starts Wooing Sandhya And Soon Both In Love With Each Other. The
Karniks Decide To Marry Sandhya And Bashudev, Much To Misery Of Rajaram. But
On The Day Of The Engagement, Bashudev Disappears, And The Engagement Is
Calledoff. Rajaram Offers To Marry The Devastated Sandhya, But She Tells Him
That She Has Been Very Intimate With Bashudev, And Is Pregnant, And It Remains
To Be Seen If Rajaram Will Accept Sandhya Or Otherwise.