- A man, abandoned as a baby and forced to live as an orphan, is unknowingly employed by his biological father.
- Left in the care of an alcoholic Gangu Ganpat (Shreeram Lagoo), young Heera, who named himself after a stray dog, wrestles with life in his young age. Years later, now a young man (Amitabh Bachchan), he works for Mahendar Singh (Ranjeet) and is in love with Mohini (Zeenat Aman), who will not have anything to do with him due to his lack of ancestry. Heera is now determined to find out who his parents are, and the only one who can help him is the elusive, alcohol-induced and incoherent Gangu Ganpat.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
- Wealthy Prince Ragbeer Singh shares a secret relationship with well-known singer Miss. Vidhya. When Ragbeer learns that Vidhya is pregnant with his child, he walks away from the relationship. A devastated Vidhya gives birth to a baby boy and passes away, leaving the baby to be taken care of by an alcoholic named Gangu Ganpat. The boy grows up in a poor environment and is named after a stray dog, Hira. Hira seeks employment in a bar and is paid the right amount for his services; but his hard earn money is been blown away by Gangu on liquor. Fed up of this Hira run away and is now employed as a logger manager, here is where Hira will come across his dad (Ragbeer Singh). But the question remain how will Hira react when he meet his dad and how will he be able to recognize his dad?—gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)
- Laawaris is a story of an orphan Heera (Amitabh Bachchan) who is disowned by his father (Amjad Khan) before birth and the struggles he goes through to establish his legitimacy in society.
Vidya (Raakhee) is a famous singer (Mere Agne Mein, Tumhara Kya Kaam Hai) and she is in love with Ranvir Singh (Amjad Khan), a leading business man. She gets pregnant with his child but Ranvir Singh wants it to be aborted. Vidya who doesn't want to abort her child decides to break up with Ranvir Singh and she leaves with her brother without informing Ranvir Singh. Vidya dies while giving birth to a baby boy but her brother Kailashnath takes away the baby and gives it to his driver, Gangu Ganpat (Shreeram Lagoo), asking it to be killed. Meanwhile Ranvir's next girlfriend and fiance also commits suicide after she becomes pregnant. Ranvir really loved her and feels that Vidya's curse is haunting him and feels bad about abandoning her. He moves heaven and Earth to find Vidya, only to realize he is too late and Vidya is dead. He is told that Vidya gave birth to a dead boy.
Meanwhile, Gangu Ganpat, a drunkard decides to raise the baby on his own instead of killing with the intention of making some money with the help of baby. He names the baby as Heera. Gangu spends all the money in drinking as Heera is left to begging on the streets to sustain himself. Many years later, when a grown up Heera (Amitabh Bachchan) refuses to give Gangu liquor, an angry Gangu reveals his status as an orphan (but promises never to reveal Heera's fathers name) and an angry Heera leaves him. Heera has a factory gig, and it is shown how the factory owner is insensitive to worker needs and genuine help requests. To get justice, Heera plays tricks on the factory owner saying the police has evidence that the factory is shipping goods without paying tax. The owner gives Heera bribe money, which he uses to get workers daughter married.
Heera gets a job in a factory which is owned by Mahendar Singh (Ranjeet) (he meets Mahendar at a brothel where Heera had gone to celebrate the fact that he is Laawaris), who happens to be the son of Ranvir Singh (with his legally wedded wife Kamini (Bindu) and step-sister Madhu) . It is shown that Ranvir Singh leads an unhappy life with his wife in an estate. He feels guilty about his betrayal to Vidya thinking she is dead. Heera meets Ranvir Singh in the estate and gets into his good books (heera had spoken up at a function where Ranvir was donating money to orphanage. Ranvir really liked Heera's view on how rich men donate money to hide their own crimes and this reminds Ranvir of his own crime against Vidya).
Once employed as manager at Mahendar Singh's timber factory in Kashmir, Heera understands that workers are not paid properly. Mahendra had got Heera to keep the factory workers under control with liberal use of force. The estate accountant is Lala (Jeevan), and Mahendar is having an affair with his daughter in front of him. Mahendar orders Heera to destroy the Basti where the lumberjacks stay. Mahendar wants to build a 5 star hotel there. Heera destroys the Basti, but tells the lumberjacks and their families that Mahendar has given them refuge in Lala's Haveli. When Lala objects, Heera brings in Ranvir to settle the matter (to save Mahendar Heera says that Mahendar has promised to build pukka houses for the lumberjacks at the location of the old Basti).
Kamini is very angry that Ranvir makes Mahendar look insignificant due to his charity works and yells at him for squandering his wealth on beggars and losers. Heera has immense respect for Ranvir and takes care of him. Heera is a socialist and helps the locals including Ram Singh (Suresh Oberoi) and makes many friends.
Mohini (Zeenat Aman) the daughter of Kailashnath (and a rich, spoiled brat) (Kailashnath is Ranvir's lawyer and attorney), falls in love with Heera. Heera hates Mohini for mistreating poor people and thinking that she can buy anything anybody with money. Mohini turns out to be Madhu's friend. Madhu ties Rakhi to Heera, when Mahendar fails to show up for the occasion. Mahendar is angry and throws Heera out of the estate and back to the factory. Meanwhile Mohini hugs Heera when she realizes that Heera is the same smart boy who used to work at her house many many yrs ago.
Mahendar tries to sexually assault Ram Singh's sister. When Ram Singh intervenes, he is trapped in Mahendar's lumber factory. Ram Singh escapes, and tries to set fire to the factory. Heera stops Ram Singh from destroying the livelihood of all lumberjacks, but Ram Singh loses his hands in an accident during the scuffle. Heera is disgusted and quits Mahendar's employment. Mahendar wants revenge and kills Ram Singh and sexually assaults his sister. when Heera discovers their bodies he confronts Mahendar, but his men set fire to the entire Basti and all evidence is lost. Mahendar talks to Kailashnath to protect himself, but Heera intervenes and tells Ranvir about what Mahendar has done. But Mahendar is able to convince Ranvir that it was Heera who killed them both as he had an affair with Ram's sister and she was pregnant with his child. Heera is arrested, but released on Mohini's testimony.
Now Gangu returns to Kashmir and meets Kailashnath and demands more money. But Kailashanth refuses to give him any money. Gangu meets Mohini by lurking around Kailashnath's house and promises to tell her the truth in exchange for money. Heera meanwhile challenges Mahendar publicly. Ranvir takes his gun and decides to kill Heera. But Mohini intervenes and deflects Ranvir's gun in time, and tells him that Heera is his son. Heera cant hear that and still thinks that Ranvir tried to kill him. Ranvir begs Mohini not to tell Heera the truth, as he cant live with the shame. Now Mahendar instigates the lumberjacks for abusing Ranvir, who is like a God to all of them. as the Lumberjacks attack Heera, Ranvir comes in the way and saves Heera's life. Ranvir brings Heera home and nurtures him back to health. Heera stops Ranvir from killing Mahendar.
Ranvir throws a party to celebrate secretly that he has found his son. Gangu finds Heera and tells him that he is the son of Vidya and Kailashnath defrauded Vidya and tried to kill Heera, when he was an infant. But Gangu wont say that Ranvir is Heera's dad. Heera confronts Kailashnath and leaves with Mohini, who refuses to acknowledge Kailash as her dad. Mohini tells Heera that he is the son of Ranvir Singh. Heera is again disgusted as he feels that Ranvir is a coward for not adopting him for the fear of society. Meanwhile Lala's daughter gets pregnant and Mahendar tells her to get an abortion. Lala goes to Ranvir who laments at history repeating itself in his own home. Ranvir goes to Kailashnath to change his will and give all his wealth to Heera, without knowing that Kailash is a supporter of Mahendar. Kailash and Mahendar try to steal the old will, but are caught by Ranvir. They find Vidya's photo in Ranvir's closet and realize that Ranvir loved Vidya and Heera is his son.
Kailash tells Mahendar to kill both Heera and Ranvir. Gangu finds out about the conspiracy. Heera and Ranvir are brought to the lumber factory on the pretext that Mahendar was torturing the other. The assassin takes a shot, but Gangu comes in the way and saves Heera. Manhendar shoots at Ranvir, but Heera deflects the shot and it injures Ranvir's leg. Heera goes after Mahendar. Kailash and Lala attack an injured Ranvir, but Mohini intervenes and thwarts the attack with her car. Mahendar is arrested and Ranvir acknowledges Heera as his son. All is well.
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