Twelve Annas

Mumbai-based Kedar Shukla is employed as a chauffeur with Anoop and Simone Mehta, and silently absorbs abuse heaped on him by the latter. He lives an impoverished lifestyle in a small room along with watchman Yadav and waiter Aman. While Yadav has family in a village and sends money regularly, he must come up with more as his son is ill. Aman is friendly with an Italian woman, Kate, and would like to marry her but she tells him that she desperately needs Rs.20,000/-. Kedar lends Yadav some money but a pickpocket steals it, devastating him; while he's in this state of mind a man picks on him. Yadav knocks the guy down and drags him home, much to his roommates' chagrin. Yadav offers to take him away in Kedar's car but secretly negotiates a ransom deal with the man family, and after obtaining the money he shares it with his roommates. At first they refuse to accept it, but then they relent and decide to partner with Yadav in abducting middle-class men and demanding small ransoms, thus improving their own lifestyle. Things do start to improve: Yadav gains confidence, while Aman saves enough money to lend to Kate--but silent, brooding Kedar has his own secret plans that will change their lives forever.