Twenty years prior, Angar Chand (Amrish Puri) lived a wealthy lifestyle in a small town in India, along with his wife, Parvati, and four sons - Balram (Jackie Shroff), Kishan (Paresh Rawal), Shakti Jat(Arbaaz Khan) and baby Jai (Akshaye Khanna). Balram was of marriageable age and in love with the daughter of Laxmi Devi (Lakshmi (actress)), who reciprocated his feelings. Angar proceeded to arrange the marriage, however, Laxmi Devi opposed this relationship. During the wedding ceremony, Laxmi ordered her sons, Surajbhan and Pratap to forcibly remove their sister. In anger, Laxmi's husband shot his firearm at Balram, but instead, Parvati was hit and killed. Laxmi subsequently married her daughter to Kashinath (Shakti Kapoor). An enraged Angar Chand hacked Laxmi's husband to death in the middle of the road and was arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison. When he returned home, he declared that women will not be permitted in his property, posting a sign on the front gate, and forbidding his sons to ever marry.