Karan is a lazy man, who is good for nothing. He lives on the income generated by his father and elder brother, who run the family business. All Karan does is have fun with his buddies and romance a woman named Romi. When he watches an action movie, he and his friends decide to enlist in the army, but the course proves to be too much of a bother and he abandons it half way, thus making his lose respect on the home front. Romi also stops respecting him. Now Karan decides that he must re-join the army and show to his family and Romi that he too is focused about path he has to take in this lifetime. But will he be resilient enough to carry out this task?
It was in 1947 during the British sponsored India-Pakistan partition that the Shergill family were forced to flee their palatial home in Lahore and re-locate to a one-room unit. It was here that Mr. Shergill made the decision that he will never let such troubled times touch his family, he toiled day and night, ran a business, and moved into more spacious surroundings, only to have his parents pass away without having to enjoy the fruit of his labor. Now Shergill has two sons, Udesh and Karan, while Udesh has taken up the family business, Karan is a slacker, with no motivation to do anything. He loves Romila Dutta Romi and hopes to marry her someday. Then one day while watching a Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, he decides to enlist in the Indian Military Academy, much to his parents' shock and surprise. Karan's tryst with the military does not last long, and he deserts, but when he finds out that his parents and his brother have no respect for him and they were expecting him to return home, he decides to return to the military. Years later, Karan and Romi meet. He is now Acting Captain in the Indian Military, a man with a mission, to climb Peak 5179 and host the Indian Tricolor there by any means, while Romi is now a correspondent for Global News - engaged to be married to a businessman named Manish Kunj.
Karan Shergill is a college student, who has no ambition or direction for his life. He does not have any plan in his mind for his future. He is an aimless youth who is not sure where he should pursue his career. One moment he wants to do MBA from US, the other moment he thinks of joining the army. Finally, he fills the form to join the army, but is hesitant again, until his father thrashes him, which makes him go ahead with his decision. He regrets this as soon as his training starts in the INA, and he runs away. Back at home, although he is welcomed by his parents, he is lambasted by Romilla for not sticking to his decision. Devastated, he returns to the Academy and gives his best. He is sent to the border when the war with Pakistan breaks, and then he gets his ambition for his life, to save the peak 5179, which has been captured by militants. But his problems are doubled when Romilla reaches there as a reporter, already betrothed to someone else. Karan has to fight at two frontiers....
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