Afghani Mahmood Albak is recruited to be a suicide bomber and kill at least 400 people at Red Fort in Delhi on the occasion of Indias Independence Day celebrations on August 15. He is provided with the identity of an embittered youth, Numair Qazi from Gujarat, who had witnessed the death of the his parents at the hands of Hindu extremists. Numair befriends the Urdu Professor of Zakir Hussain College, Rajan Mathur Sengupta, and his social activist wife, Roma, and moves in to live with them and their disabled daughter, Surubhi, so that they can procure a Pass for him to witness the Independence Day celebrations. Numair is disgusted at the manner in which Muslims have lowered themselves, are living harmoniously with Hindus and Sikhs, visiting and organising Hindu pilgrimages, and participating in non-Muslim religious events. He also finds out that the Hindu and Muslim youth leaders are close friends, but outwardly demonstrate hostility, and work in close collaboration with corrupt and self-serving politicians like Mohanlal Agarwal. Numair has absolutely no qualms of making Rajan a scapegoat, has the entire area fixed with high-powered explosives and is all set for martyrdom!