Ranvijay
yearns for a baby sister after seeing his friends' sisters tying rakhi to them.
His father Sampooran Singh is the village headman and is considered to be a
fair leader when it comes to settling disputes. Sampooran talks to his wife
Ratanjeet about having another child. Ratanjeet tells him that Ranvijay's new
hobby is to collect bottle caps. Ranvijay sees an unattended baby in the
hospital and brings the baby home. The parents and the hospital staff search
for the baby.
The parents go to the Sarpanch's house with a
complaint against the doctor for losing their baby. They see the baby in
Ranvijay's arms and ask Sampooran to punish him. Ranvijay tells them that he
took the baby from the hospital to make her his sister. Sampooran apologises
for Ranvijay's mistake. Ratanjeet tells Chaiji that she and Sampooran have been
trying to have another baby but she miscarried twice. Sampooran cheers up
Ranvijay. Meanwhile, a woman leaves her baby in the temple.
Ranvijay writes a letter to god wishing for a
baby sister. He mails it to a Gurudwara in Punjab. Sampooran tells him about
his dream of building an agricultural school in the village. Ranvijay vows to
fulfill his dream. Chaiji becomes sad when Ranvijay asks her why she does not
have children. Sampooran makes a jasmine garland for Ratanjeet. His friend,
Kartaar returns home bearing gifts for everyone from his trip. Ranvijay is
upset as he fails to bring him snow. Ratanjeet learns she is pregnant.
Ratanjeet asks Sampooran not to share her
pregnancy news with anyone. They learn about Ranvijay's letter to the god.
Ranvijay punishes Kartaar for not bringing him snow from his honeymoon trip.
Ratanjeet reveals to Gurpreet that Kartaar was engaged once before but that the
woman had run away on the wedding day. Kartaar apologises to Gurpreet for not
confiding in her. He vows not to hide anything from her hereafter. Sampooran
hesitates when Ranvijay asks him to make a similar vow to Ratanjeet.
Sampooran is guilt ridden about hiding a truth
from Ratanjeet. He settles a marital dispute in the Panchayat and punishes the
husband for breaking his wife's trust. Ratanjeet talks to Ranvijay about the
responsibilities of caring for a baby sister. Chaiji finds out about
Ratanjeet's pregnancy and brings the village women to Sampooran's house to
celebrate the good news. A woman who has been thrown out of her parents' house
travels to Preetampura to find a family for her baby.
Amrita comes to meet Sampooran along with her
baby girl. She tells him that he is the father of her child. Ratan overhears
their conversation and beats Amrita. Ratan becomes tormented as Sampooran
concedes that he is the father to Amrita's daughter and locks herself in the
room. Sampooran informs Ratan that Amrita is dead, but she breaks her
relationship with him. Ranvijay gives all his bottle caps to Jeete to get a
rakhi. He comes home and becomes elated to meet his sister. Chaiji condemns
Sampooran for breaking Ratan's trust. The village people question Sampooran's
integrity when he decides to perform Amrita's funeral rites. They refuse to
help him arrange the funeral. Sampooran dresses up Amrita like a bride. Chaiji
tries to stop Ratan from witnessing the scene. Ranvijay thinks that Sampooran
is in trouble for taking a baby from the hospital and prepares sorbet to
placate the village people. He sees Sampooran putting bangles on Amrita's hands
and questions him.
Kartaar is shocked to see Amrita's dead body in
Sampooran's house. He blames Amrita, who was once engaged to him, for his
mother's death, as she had run away on their wedding day. He sees Amrita's baby
and becomes enraged by Sampooran's betrayal. The villagers condemn Sampooran
for betraying his wife and best friend. Sampooran performs Amrita's funeral
rites without anyone's help. Chaiji consoles Ratan. Ranvijay shows off his
sister to his friends. He fights with a boy for making her cry.
Baldev tells Ranvijay that sisters are very
demanding. Ranvijay vows to be the best brother to his sister. Chaiji tells
Sampooran to stay away from Ratan until she deals with his betrayal. Sampooran
asks her to feed Amrita's baby but she refuses. He apologises to Ratan but she
threatens to kill herself if he comes near her again. Ranvijay gets hurt while
sneaking into a stable to milk a cow. The owner accuses him of stealing the
milk. Sampooran feeds milk to the baby. Ranvijay sings a lullaby.
Sampooran tells Ranvijay that Ratan is sick and
asks him not to disturb her. Ranvijay puts the baby to sleep. He overcomes his
fear of cockroaches to protect his sister. Sampooran burns his hand while
cooking for Ranvijay. Ranvijay eats the burnt rotis without complaining.
Sampooran urges Ratan to eat but she refuses. Ratan tries to keep Ranvijay away
from Amrita's baby. He becomes upset when she tells him that the baby is not is
his sister.
Ranvijay decks the baby's face with powder and
shows her off to Ratan. Ratan becomes hysterical and orders him to keep the
baby out of her sight. Ranvijay thinks that Ratan dislikes his sister because
she is weak. Baldev takes revenge on Ranvijay by promising to give him tips on
increasing Ratan's strength. The village people plan to replace Sampooran as
the Sarpanch. Sampooran tells Chaiji that he has been summoned by the
Panchayat. Baldev's mother wishes for her husband to become the Sarpanch.
The Panchayat gives a verdict that the baby
should not be nurtured in the village. Sampooran requests the Panchayat to be
pitiful to the baby. Being the Sarpanch, Sampooran informs the villagers that
the baby should be nurtured by its father. Ranvijay asks Ratan's suggestions in
nurturing the baby. Chaiji asks Ratan to take care of her unborn baby.
Sampooran asks Ratan to nurture Amrita's baby.
Ratan tells him that she will not care for his illegitimate child because it
reminds her of his betrayal. She cuts her hand on seeing Sampooran and Ranvijay
feeding the baby. A dhabawala gives a bag full of bottle caps to Ranvijay for
his collection. Ranvijay takes the baby to Gurudwara and thanks God for giving
him a sister. Sampooran writes a letter to Ratan explaining about what had
occurred between Amrita and him. Ratan falls down the stairs.
Sampooran takes Ratan to the hospital after she
falls down the stairs while running away from him. The doctor tells him that
Ratan had a miscarriage. Ratan and Kartaar blame Sampooran for the loss.
Ranvijay talks to the baby about Sampooran's dream to build an agricultural
school in the village. Baldev tells him that he will ask his father to build a
wrestling arena in that land. Sampooran asks Ranvijay to take care of Ratan and
his baby sister. He gives him a feeding bottle for the baby.
Chaiji brings Ratan home from the hospital and
tends to her. She panics as Sampooran goes missing. She decides not to stress
Ratan by informing her of his disappearance. Kartaar and few other men search
for him in the village. Ranvijay tells Chaiji that Sampooran had asked him to
take care of Ratan and the baby. Chaiji teaches him to test the temperature of
the milk before feeding the baby. Ranvijay builds a stroller for the baby.
Kartaar tells Chaiji that he could not find Sampooran.
Baldev fights with Ranvijay for the baby
stroller. Gurpreet, Bansari and the other village women gather in Sampooran's
house to gossip about Ratan's plight. Chaiji defends Sampooran's character when
the women condemn his behaviour. Ratan states that Sampooran left her without
giving her time to deal with his betrayal. Bansari tells Ranvijay that
Sampooran has abandoned Ratan and him. Chaiji reassures Ranvijay that Sampooran
will return home. Ranvijay tells Chaiji to bathe his sister.
Kartaar informs Chaiji that someone had seen
Sampooran boarding a bus to the mandi. Ratan refuses to forgive Sampooran for
abandoning his family and decides to take over the responsibility of the
family. She plans to work in the field and provide for Ranvijay. Chaiji
supports her decision. Ratan scolds Ranvijay for dressing up Amrita's baby in
the clothes that she had bought for her own child. Ranvijay pretends to be sick
to avoid going to school. Ratan drives the tractor in the field.
The villagers are astonished to see Ratan driving
the tractor in the field. Ranvijay takes his sister to the school and hides her
in a classroom. Baldev reports about it to the teacher. Ranvijay quits school
when the teacher asks him to leave the baby at home. He panics when the baby
goes missing. He asks Ratan to come up with a name for the baby. Bansari
pampers Baldev and ill treats his sister. Chaiji asks Balwant to assign a
person to find Sampooran, but Bansari forbids him.
Ratan refuses to name Amrita's baby. She looks at
the chits on which she and Sampooran had written down the name of their unborn
child. Ranvijay ties one end of a thread around the baby's leg and the other
end around his wrist to keep track of her. He goes to Gurudwara and
asks God to give a name for his sister. He invites the village people to his
sister's naming ceremony. Bansari declares that no one will attend the
ceremony. Ranvijay punctures Baldev's cycle tyre for calling his sister sin.
Ranvijay reads a book containing baby names to
choose a name for his sister. He plans his sister's naming ceremony. Ratan
checks on Ranvijay after he falls asleep. Ranvijay covers the baby with a
blanket. Ratan removes the blanket from the baby's face. The village people celebrate
Guru Nanak's birthday in Gurdwara. Ranvijay thinks that the decoration and the
feast are for his sister's naming ceremony. Granthi tells him to pick a name
starting with the letter V. Ranvijay names his sister Veera.
Ranvijay names the baby Veera. Bansari expresses
displeasure in performing the baby's naming ceremony on Guru Nanak's birthday
in the Gurdwara. Granthi advises her not to call the baby a sin. Ratan reads
the chit and realises that Sampooran had wanted to name their unborn child Veera.
Ranvijay asks her to embroider Veera's name in a handkerchief. He takes up the
role of Veera's mother as Ratan refuses to nurture the baby. Chaiji teaches him
to make a cradle. Ratan asks Ranvijay to go to school.
Ranvijay makes a promise to Ratan that he will
not quit school. He takes Veera with him to school but the peon refuses to let
him inside. The teacher informs Ratan that Ranvijay has been absent for the
last few days. Ranvijay confesses to Ratan that he has been hiding in the
school campus during class time. Baldev envies Ranvijay when the other kids
play with Veera and not him. Ranvijay throws a stone at Baldev for threatening
to pinch Veera. Baldev gets hurt. Bansari warns Ratan.
Ratan berates Chaiji for letting Ranvijay take
Veera with him to school. She tells Ranvijay to let go of his obsession with
Veera. Ranvijay refuses to go to school until Sampooran returns home to take
care of Veera. Ratan slaps him for being disobedient and tells him that
Sampooran has deserted them. Ranvijay asks Kartaar to bring Sampooran back.
Gurpreet asks Kartaar to forgive Sampooran. Kartaar agrees to search for
Sampooran but refuses to forgive him. Ratan apologises to Ranvijay.
Ranvijay asks Ratan to take care of Veera when he
is at school. Ratan plans to make some other arrangements for Veera for the
sake of her son's future. Bansari shows Baldev's head injury to the villagers
and incites them against Ranvijay and Veera. She claims that Veera will have
bad influence on their children. The parents forbid their children to play with
Veera. Ranvijay gives up his friends for the sake of his sister. He dreams that
an angel visits Veera and gives her clothes and toys.
At night, Ratan leaves Veera in an orphanage
while Ranvijay is asleep. She appears as an angel in Ranvijay's dream. Ranvijay
asks her to hold Veera in her arms and kiss her. He dreams that the angel is
protecting Veera and him from the villagers who are trying to separate them.
Ratan returns home and hears Ranvijay humming a lullaby in his sleep. In the morning,
she wakes him up and asks him to get ready for school. Ranvijay brings milk for
Veera and panics on not finding her on the bed.
Ranvijay searches for Veera in the house. He sees
a feather in his room and thinks that the angel from his dream has stolen his
sister. Ratan promises to search for the baby and sends him to school. She
confesses to Chaiji that she had left Veera in an orphanage for the sake of
Ranvijay's future. Dalbir tells Ranvijay that the police can find the baby. The
women at the orphanage struggle to pacify Veera. Veera stops crying when a boy
in the orphanage plays with her.
Ranvijay realises that he brought
Veera's feeding bottle to school and goes back home to give it to Ratan. He
sees Ratan working in the field instead of searching for Veera and becomes
upset. He goes to the police station and asks the police to find his sister. He
shows the feather he had found in his room to the police and claims that an
angel stole Veera. He goes to the Gurudwara and asks the god to return his sister.
Ratan searches for him. Chaiji scolds her for separating Ranvijay and Veera.
Ranvijay writes a message for the angel on a
paper asking her to return Veera. He holds the paper over his head hoping that
the angel will read it from the sky. His friends do the same. Ratan informs the
police that she had left Veera in an orphanage. The woman who runs the
orphanage collects donation from Gurudwara. She feeds milk to Veera in the
feeding bottle that Ranvijay had left in Gurudwara. Baldev tells Ranvijay that the
angel has left Veera in the jungle. Ranvijay goes to the jungle.
Baldev confesses to Ratan that he had lied to
Ranvijay that the angel has taken Veera to the jungle. Ratan goes to the jungle
in search of Ranvijay. Chaiji gathers the villagers and goes in pursuit of
them. Ratan finds him lying unconscious on the ground and takes him to the
hospital. The doctor tells her that his condition will worsen if he does not
regain consciousness soon. Ranvijay mumbles Veera's name. His friends go to the
Gurudwara and pray to the god to reunite Veera and him
The villagers witness Ranvijay's bravery and
realise that he loves his sister very much. They pray for his recovery. Ratan
realises her mistake and goes back to the orphanage to bring Veera back. A
woman at the orphanage informs her that Veera has been taken to the hospital as
she is sick. Baldev apologises to Chaiji for lying to Ranvijay and putting him
in danger. Ranvijay regains consciousness when Veera is placed next to him on
the bed. He thanks Ratan for bringing her back.
The doctor becomes surprised with Ranvijay's
quick recovery after his reunion with Veera. She tells Ratan that the bond
between Ranvijay and Veera is very strong. Ranvijay asks Ratan to carry Veera
to their home, as he is too weak to carry her. Ratan feels embarrassed as the
villagers see her carrying Veera. Chaiji tells Gurpreet that Ratan had to bring
Veera back, out of her motherly love for Ranvijay. Ranvijay applies salve on
Ratan's injured feet.
Ranvijay finds Sampooran's letter in Ratan's room
while searching for a cord to make a fan for Veera. Ratan reads the letter in
which Sampooran explains his first meeting with Amrita on the day of Kartaar's
wedding. Amrita's parents apologise to Kartaar as Amrita runs away from home
before the wedding. Sampooran consoles Kartaar and asks him to go home. He
meets Amrita in a dhaba in her bridal dress. He helps her when she gets sick
suddenly. They take shelter in a barn during a storm at night.
Sampooran becomes irate on learning that Amrita
is the woman who ran away on Kartaar's wedding. Amrita tells him that she ran
away from home because she has a fatal disease. Sampooran explains to Ratan
that he had sympathised with Amrita's condition and admired her courage on
learning the truth. Ratan breaks down on reading the letter. She regrets not
forgiving Sampooran. Ranvijay makes a fan for Veera and shows it to Ratan.
Ratan repents for not understanding Sampooran
after reading his letters. Chaiji comforts her. Ranvijay takes out Veera in a
stroller. The villagers see Ranvijay's love for Veera and bless them. Joginder
confronts Ratan for looking after Veera, but Chaiji defends her. Ranvijay plays
hide and seek with his friends, carrying Veera. Veera smiles when Ranvijay's
friend cheats him. Joginder calls the panchayat to discuss about Veera. Ratan
decides to look after Veera.
Chaiji asks the villagers not to question about
Veera in future. She tells them that Veera should not learn about the truth of
her birth. Ranvijay fills the pot holes with mud to prevent the mosquitoes from
spreading diseases. Ratan gives Sampooran's letters to Kartaar and asks him to
sort out his misunderstandings with him, but in vain. Gurpreet reassures Ratan
that Kartaar will sort out his issues after meeting Sampooran.
Bansari scolds Balwant for allowing Ratan to look
after Veera. She informs him that she will not allow Veera into her house or
let her kids play with her. Ranvijay protects Veera from mosquitoes. Ratan
misses Sampooran. Kartaar helps her fix a motor pump. Bansari criticises Ratan
for working in the field with the men. Ratan becomes enraged when Bansari tells
her that Sampooran will never return. She becomes dejected on learning that
Sampooran has transferred the property papers in her name.
Ratan persuades Ranvijay to go to school and
leave Veera in Chaiji's care. She asks him to act like Veera's brother, and not
her mother. Chaiji bathes and feeds Veera under Ranvijay's supervision. Ratan
scolds Ranvijay for not brushing and bathing properly. Ratan hopes that Sampooran
will come home one day when a motor pump that he had ordered a month ago is
delivered to the house. Ranvijay misses Sampooran when Veera cries incessantly
at night.
Ratan applies asafoetida and water mixture on
Veera's stomach to relieve her of pain. Ranvijay buys growth medicine for
Veera. Baldev introduces his pregnant aunt to Ranvijay. Ranvijay thinks that
she had swallowed a baby and runs away from her. He grows a rose plant for
Veera. Ratan hangs a dupatta on the terrace to call Sampooran home. She waits
for his letters as the years go by, but in vain. Veera calls Ratan as Beeji,
but Chaiji asks her to call Ratan as Maasi. Veera ties rakhi to Ranvijay.
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