Apaharan, is the story of a relationship full of troubles and complex between a father (Mohan Agashe) and son (Ajay Devgan) set against the backdrop of a thriving kidnapping industry in the Hindi heartland of Bihar in Northern India.Apaharan is not only the story of the kidnapping of human beings for mercenary purpose rather it is the story of the kidnapping of society itself-the kidnapping of the moral infrastructure that sustains a civilistion.A story that explores how values and morality are held to ransom in a world rapid losing its conscience. Apharan resonates with the cry of spineless and helpless society whose very soul has been abducted.The proliferation of crime, the precarious political balance of coalition politics, the so-called interests of minorities, fractured and purchased vote banks, a submissive and complaint bureaucracy, a corrupt police force,The blurring boundaries between politics and crime.Now criminals are politicians and politicians are criminals Politicians who operate from jails and criminals who operate from ministerial offices.As scared and fearful business communities, and the common taxpayer are extorted to finance this world, there is no right and no wrong. No fear of god, no morality and no principles. Everything is considered worthy of accept because the conscience of society has been abducted.

Ajay Devgan displays the role of Ajay Shastri who  burdened by the expectations of his deeply principled and self-righteous social activist father. He is compelled to travel a path that is completely divergent from that of his father.Mohan Agashe , Professor Raghuvansh Shastri isAjay's Shastri father. A courageous man ruled by conscience and principles. A great man but perhaps a failed father.Nana Patekar plays of Tabrez -- minority political leader, runs an empire, a parallel government that encompasses the political, the criminal, the bureaucratic, the mercenary, the philanthropic. Bipasha Basu disguises Megha , loves Ajay and thinks she understands him. But their worlds are perhaps too far apart.Cleo Issacs , Sonia--Nightclub dancer and Ajay's distraction. She is in love with Ajay. But Ajay, detached and cold, is perhaps no longer capable of love.Yashpal Sharma -- Gaya Singh Tabrez's key crony who executes kidnappings, and plans murder, safe and protected within the bars of a regular jail.