Ajay Kumar (Warsi) is the newly appointed, honest SSP of Lucknow police who tries to crack down on the Uttar Pradesh mafia. He establishes a Special Task Force consisting of a physics professor (Pankaj Tripathi) to counter the politically backed criminal Gajraj Singh (Sushant Singh). Loosely based on the real-life late 1990s organized crime wave in Uttar Pradesh.

Arshad Warsi
as SSP Ajay Kumar

Sushant Singh
as Gajraj Singh

Pankaj Kapur
as Professor Bhole Shankar Tiwari

Mahima Chaudhry
as Anamika Kant

Suhasini Mulay
as Prabha Kumar

Rajendra Gupta
as ADG (Law and Order) Kapoor

Naved Aslam
as Inspector Joginder Singh Solanki

Ghanshyam Garg
as Sub Inspector Baidyanath Mishra

Ujjwal Chopra
as Inspector Sayyed

Jeetpal
as Inspector Yadav