The story starts in 1857 when a huge piece of India was heavily influenced by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan) is a sepoy, a trooper of Indian beginning, in the multitude of the East India Company. While battling in the Anglo-Afghan Wars, he saves the existence of his regiment's official, Captain John William Gordon (Toby Stephens). Gordon is obliged to Pandey and a solid companionship creates between them, rising above rank and race.
Gordon salvages a youthful widow, Jwala (Ameesha Patel), from submitting sati (the demonstration of following her perished spouse on to the burial service fire); and a short time later, he falls head over heels for her. In the meantime, Heera (Rani Mukerji) has been sold into prostitution, to work for Lol Bibi (Kirron Kher). There is a flash of fascination among her and Pandey and a contact follows.
Gordon and Pandey's companionship is tested after the presentation of another rifle: the Enfield rifled black powder gun. Bits of gossip spread among the sepoys that the paper cartridges, which hold the powder and ball for the rifle, are lubed with either pig fat or meat fat. The most common way of stacking the rifle requires the trooper to clamp down on the cartridge, and the warriors accept that this would make them burn-through pork or meat - acts detestably to Muslim and Hindu officers for strict reasons.
Gordon researches this case and is underhandedly told by his bosses to guarantee Pandey and his men that the cartridges are liberated from creature tainting. Showing his confidence in Gordon, Pandey chomps the cartridge, yet soon thereafter finds reality. This apparently trivial issue turns into the flash that gets the fire going of insubordination among the sepoys. A revolt breaks out, driven by Pandey, and the circumstance raises, energized by the disappointment of long stretches of expansionism and oppression. At a certain point, Pandey and Gordon participate close by to-hand battle as the last option attempts to deter his companion from what he accepts to be a vain exercise that will just prompt unavoidable demise.
The Company moves to rapidly stop the uprising by getting armed force units from Myanmar (Burma). Pandey is caught and set to be executed, notwithstanding the protestations of Gordon, who reasons that Pandey will be worshipped as a saint and that his inheritance will cause more fights. This ends up being right, and Pandey weds Heera in his prison cell before his execution as scenes of cross country rebels contrary to British rule is shown. In the repercussions, Gordon is recorded as having joined the insubordination to the British Raj.
The film closes with a montage of drawings of authentic defiance and the storyteller portrays the advancement of Indian freedom development throughout the following century. The montage closes with a narrative film of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi driving the Indian National Congress during serene fights contrary to British rule during the 1940s, ultimately constraining a finish to expansionism in the subcontinent.
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