Sikandar Ka Muqaddar

At a diamond expo in Mumbai with heavy police presence, five red solitaires worth ₹50–60 crore go missing during the chaos of a heist gone awry. Investigation Officer Jaswinder Singh suspects Mangesh Desai, Kamini Singh (both employees of a diamond shop), and Sikandar Sharma (an IT technician) on instinct but finds no evidence that can prove their guilt. In remand custody, the police try to beat a confession out of Sikandar but he maintains his innocence. He makes Jaswinder promise him that once Sikandar is proven innocent, Jaswinder will look him in the eye and apologise. At a preliminary hearing, all three accused are granted bail. Jaswinder sets about ruining Sikandar's life, causing him to lose his income and apartment and become ostracised in society. Sikandar grows close to Kamini, a single mother, marries her, and forms a family with Kamini, her infant son, and his younger sister. When an opportunity arises in Agra, Kamini pawns off a minor diamond she had stolen at the expo to generate funds, but Jaswinder catches her in the act. He coerces her to spy on Sikandar, but she stops reporting back to him once the family reach Agra. Eventually, all three accused are acquitted due to lack of evidence and Jaswinder is reprimanded for leading an unprofessional investigation. Enraged, he tracks Sikandar to Agra and once again causes him to lose his job and his house, and has him mugged and beaten by local goons. Sikandar contemplates suicide, but senses Jaswinder's hand behind his misfortunes and resolves to fight him. The missing solitaires are not recovered and the unresolved case haunts both Jaswinder and Sikandar. Fifteen years later, Sikandar is a successful project manager in Abu Dhabi due to his grit, determination, and support from Kamini. Meanwhile, Jaswinder has spiraled into obsession and alcoholism, and is kicked out of the police force on the same day that his divorce is finalised. Losing his purpose in life, he calls Sikandar to apologise, but Sikandar reminds him of the old promise and insists that Jaswinder apologise to him in person. In Mumbai, Jaswinder sets up a face-to-face meeting in which he admits that his instinct was wrong and details how he manipulated events to heap misery upon Sikandar and his family in an attempt to make him desperate enough to cash in on the solitaires Jaswinder believed he had stolen. Sikandar goes to his Mumbai home and breaks off the relationship with Kamini, but promises to make financial arrangements for her and the family. Sikandar then travels to a rural conservatory operated by childhood friend Priya, where he retrieves a bonsai pot containing the hidden solitaires. But Jaswinder, who had faked the apology after realising that Sikandar would only seek the solitaires after he was convinced that Jaswinder has given up on the case, tracks him down and holds him at gunpoint at a remote location. Now cornered, Sikandar explains how he pulled off the robbery. He had discovered the plan to carry out a large-scale heist at the diamond expo by chance, and hatched his own plan. He anonymously tipped off the police to the heist, and took advantage of his knowledge of the security protocols to steal the solitaires in the chaos. Due to Sikandar's tip, the heist was stopped and the conspirators gunned down by police. Priya, who was a nurse on duty at a nearby hospital, arrived to retrieve the bodies of the conspirators, and Sikandar passed off the stolen solitaires to her before he could be strip searched, and Priya had kept them hidden at her conservatory for years. The film ends with Sikandar vowing to make Jaswinder an offer. But the viewers are left to script their own ending of the story, since some viewers may prefer an ending in which he does take the offer, while others may choose the one where Jaswinder smilingly rejects the offer. == Cast ==