Gunday is the story of Bala (Arjun Kapoor) and Bikram (Ranveer Singh) who meet as orphaned children in a refugee camp in Bangladesh circa 1971. They get involved in the illegal gun trade, but when Bala shoots and kills a camp guard who was about to sexually assault Bikram they are forced to flee by train to Calcutta. Once there, they get jobs in a cafe but are soon fired and turn to stealing and selling coal. Ten years later, the now-adult Bala and Bikram kill the bandit at the head of the black market coal trade and take over his business. They expand into other areas of the black market and become Calcutta’s biggest gangsters, using their ill-gotten gains to open schools and hospitals. But the good times are interrupted by the arrival of two people in their lives: ACP Sarkar (Irrfan Khan) brought to Calcutta to bring down Bala and Bikram’s criminal empire, and cabaret dancer Nandita (Priyanka Chopra) with whom both young men “fall in love.”
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