A rich and corrupt politician’s (Utpal Dutt) daughter Sridevi falls in love with the upright Amitabh Bachchan who plays the good cop, and marries him. However, Amitabh becomes a fall-guy, is forced to resign and turns to politics. He becomes a chief minister, projects a very corrupt image leading to strife in his married life. However, goodness does prevail in the end even if it is a gory one when Amitabh at his first cabinet meeting guns down his entire lot of corrupt cabinet ministers including his father-in-law.