- Anandi Devi is an old widow living in her village she is bought to the city by her distant relative Arun. Anandi Devi realizes that Arun and his wife wanted to keep her as a maid following which she leaves the house and befriends a child beggar and start living in a dilapidated house. Due to her kind and good nature she is then called as Naani Maa by youth groups which are led by Shyam and Chhenu. Shyam and Chhenu are rivals of each other and can't see eye to eye, Anandi Devi tries to be peacemaker between them.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
- Anandi Devi an old widow living in her village.One day her distant relative Arun arrives and takes her along so that she can spent her remaining days with them.Upon reaching his house Anandi Devi soon realizes that Arun and his wife wanted a maid fro them.She leaves their house and starts staying in a old house along with a beggar kid soon she gets respect as Nanima by everyone.Shyam and Cheenu are two educated but jobless young men and leaders of rival groups.There was a time when they were friends but today they cant stand each other. The rival groups have constant fights but Nanima treats all of them as their sons and wants them to be united but faith has a tragic end.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
- Anandi has been a widow for several years, living all herself in a small village. One day out of the blue comes Arun Gupta, claiming to her relative, and literally begs her to come to live with him and his family in the city, which she does. Once in the city, she finds out that things are not the same as in the village, there is very little or no compassion, violence, gang-fights, and children being abused. She befriends one such abused child and attempts to bring him to the Gupta family, and she finds out that she is not welcome there anymore. She finds out that Arun had actually brought her to the city, not of pity, love or compassion, but for doing household duties, and baby-sitting, without any wages. She moves out and lives in a broken-down structure with the homeless child, hoping and waiting that someday, someone will actually come for her, and claim her as family.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
- Anandi Devi (Meena Kumari) is an old widow who lives in a village. One day, she is visited by a distant relative, Arun Gupta (Ramesh Deo), who persuades her to live in town with him, his wife Lata (Sumita Sanyal), and a small child. Anandi remembers the first time she came to the village as the newly wed wife of Niranjan (Deven Verma).. Nirajan was a theatre artist, and was a good man, but drank a lot and stayed out of house due to his Natak Mandli tours. When flood sweeps the district, Niranjan goes to help with relief efforts, even when there is an epidemic spreading in the villages. He never returned home.
Anandi considers Arun's offer as she is also very afraid of dying alone. She leaves with Arun. At first, things are good. Lata is courteous towards Anandi, although Anandi doesn't approve of Lata's cut hair and modern lifestyle. Lata has a full-time job and is out of the house for most of the day.
Anandi later realizes that they were looking for a maid. The house maid (Leela Mishra) thinks that Anandi is being paid to look after the kid Pinky and is a nanny. She is stunned to know that Anandi is not being paid. She tells Anandi that before her the Gupta's got another lady and called her Chachi, but she was a smart cookie. She took a salary, food and clothes and soon got a good job and left. One day another relative comes by Jotu (Keshto Mukherjee), who wants Anandi to come with him. This time she asks how much he and his wife would pay her to take care of their child. Anandi is hurt that even human emotions are for sale.
Anandi used to give alms to a street beggar boy Babbu with which he was able to feed himself and his paralyzed sister Tini. One day Anandi brings Babbu home to feed her and Lata objects. Anandi feels insulted when she is told that this is not her house. Anandi leaves with Babbu and goes to his broken hut to live.
Being good-nature and caring, she slowly earns the title of "Nani Ma" (maternal grandmother) among groups of youths led by Shyam (Vinod Khanna) and Chenu (Shatrughan Sinha), who were in a constant fight with each other. Shyam has Billu (Dinesh Thakur), Sarju (Danny Denzongpa), Neelu (Shashi Kiran) and Bansi (Paintal) in his gang. Chenu has Raghu (Asrani). Raghu comes to Shyam's colony to meet his girlfriend Savita, but is beaten up by Shyam's gang.. Billu and Bansi were coming back from college when Raghu corners them with his gang. Bansi escapes, but Billu decides to fight, but is outnumbered. Bansi brings Shyam who comes with bombs and arms. Shyam confronts Chenu with his forces, who is forced to release Billu. It is revealed that once Shyam and Chenu were friends and Shyam even went to prison for Chenu.
Shyam observes Anandi living with Babbu and Tini and fights Arun for her salary, which he hands over to Anandi for her expenses. Shyam and his gang start spending regular time with Anandi and the kids at Babbu's hut. Anandi regales them with her stories. Once she even gave shelter to a noted freedom fighter (Abhi Bhattacharya) who was being pursued by the police. She saw him being gunned down by the police shortly thereafter. Again, Raghu is caught by Bansi and friends, but they let him go when they see Anandi coming. Anandi takes Raghu home and cares for him. Chenu comes by and finds Anandi taking care of Raghu.
One day Shyam ex-flame Urmila (Yogeeta Bali) moves into the neighborhood. She is now married. Back then both were in college and loved each other. Shyam introduces Urmila to Chenu, who insults her saying that even he wants a piece of her. This leads to a large fight between Shyam and Chenu and Urmila leaves. That night Shyam goes to her house (as her father is getting transferred to Lucknow) and is caught by her family and sent to the police. He was in jail for 15 days and his career is ruined. Shyam couldn't find a job and Urmila was married. Chenu and Shyam formed their gangs for revenge. Shyam is supporting BilokiPrasad (Asit Sen) and Chenu is supporting Anokhelal (Mehmood) (the sitting MP) in the upcoming elections. Anokhelal gives Chenu the list of dead people whose ration cards are still active and gives him the list of recently franchised youth, who are unlikely to vote. He wants Chenu's men to organize these votes in his favor.
One confrontation between the rival gangs is avoided when they come face to face in their canvassing jeeps, but Nani Ma was going from there and neither wanted to fight in front of her. Later, Chenu sets fire to Shyam's campaign HQ. Shyam attacks in full force. Both gangs come face to face and a brutal street fight erupts. The movie ends with Anandi's death from accidental gunfire in one such response. Both gangs are arrested by the police.
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