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Synopsis

In 2016 B.C. Sarman (Hrithik Roshan) is a young man from the ancient village of Amri, who lost his parents when young.Sarman kills a crocodile that has been terrorizing his village's fishermen and is hailed as a hero. Sarman lives with his uncle Durjan and aunt Bima (Kishori Shahane). He asks his uncle, Durjan (Nitish Bharadwaj), to allow him to go to Mohenjo Daro to trade their family's goods (they trade in Indigo crop), but his uncle refuses. Sarman attempts to sneak away to the city at night with his friend Hojo (Umang Vyas), but is caught by Durjan, who relents and allows both friends to go.

Sarman's uncle gives him an amulet that contains an inscription of a unicorn Sarman sees in his dreams. This animal is also the emblem of the city of Mohenjo Daro, suggesting he uses it only once in a life-or-death situation.

Arriving in Mohenjo Daro to sell his wares, Sarman learns that the city is ruled by the tyrant chief Maham (Kabir Bedi) and his wicked son Moonja (Arunoday Singh). The city of Mohenjo Daro is at the edge of the sacred Sindhu River.He also learns that the unicorn he sees in his dreams is the symbol of the city and feels as if the city is oddly familiar to him. The city itself is divided into Upper city for the nobles and royals and the lower city for the commoners. The city is a meeting place for foreign traders from many civilizations. The city is introduced to many novelties such as horses, silk and other exotics due to the foreign influence.

Sarman meets Lothar (Diganta Hazarika), a guard in the city, who tells Sarman that Maham has built a dam on the Sidhu river, which has reduced the trade in the entire region (due to lower water supply the production of all raw commodities has gone down). Sarman sees Moonja exploiting the sellers by forcing them to sell their goods at half their market price.

The city council admonishes Maham for building a dam on the Sindhu, which is leading to crumbling of trade and degradation of the lower city infrastructure.Maham proposes to impose an additional tax on the farmers to pay for the lower city infrastructure. Anyone who opposes Maham in the council is brutally murdered.Jakhiro (Narendra Jha) a mad man, recognizes Sarman and asks him to leave the city. Jakhiro was a founding member of the city council in the past. Sarman sees a woman named Chaani in the market and is enchanted by Chaani's beauty and charm and falls in love with her. He learns that Channi lives in the Upper city.

Sarman gains access to the upper city by showing his uncle's amulet (as only people with the copper seal are allowed into the upper city) and falls in love with Chaani (Pooja Hegde), daughter of the head priest of Mohenjo Daro. Chaani also falls in love with Sarman when he saves her from wild horses in the upper city.

The head priest (Manish Choudhary), strangely, appears to recognize Sarman when Sarman reveals his uncle Durjan and his father Srujan (whom he says died in a plague).Sarman learns of Maham atrocities on the city and leads the farmers to oppose the taxes so that their families don't starve.

Chaani reveals that she has been forcibly betrothed to Moonja. Maham realizes Sarman and Chaani love each other, and that Sarman is the leader of the tax revolt. Realizing that the people are rallying behind him, Maham gives Sarman the Bakar-Zokhar (Casey Frank, Michael Homik) challenge, his two champions. Sarman proposes that if he wins, Chaani will be released from her engagement, and Maham accepts the terms.

The head priest reveals to Sarman how Maham was expelled from Harappa for illegal trade with Sumerians. Maham swore to extract his revenge on the city of Harappa. He entered Mohenjo Daro as a trader and quickly rose to become the trade chief. Maham had discovered that the mighty Sindhu River held vast gold deposits, so he decided to dam the river and divert its course to mine the gold. As a result, the city of Harappa shriveled due to the lack of water.

The wise Senate Chief Srujan (Sharad Kelkar) opposed this, but Maham built the dam anyway and had Srujan framed and arrested for hoarding gold. Chaani's father and Durjan (Nitish Bharadwaj) - Sarman's uncle - were threatened by Maham to go against Srujan, and Srujan was killed. Maham then took his place as the new Senate Chief. The head priest then reveals that Sarman is Srujan's son. It is now up to Sarman to purge the evil Maham.

Sarman faces the ferocious Tajik mountain cannibals Bakar and Zokhar in an arena before the city. After a vicious battle, he kills one of the cannibals but spares the other and the people of Mohenjo Daro surge even stronger behind him. Enraged, Maham urges Moonja to finish off Chaani and the priest. Moonja kills the priest, but Sarman saves Chaani and kills Moonja.

Chaani exposes Maham's plan to use the gold from the Sindhu to enrich himself and to smuggle in weapons from the West. All the chiefs now stand against Maham. The people elect Sarman as the new chief, but Sarman suggests Mohenjo Daro needs a people's government, not a chief.

Sarman realizes that the dam will burst, and the Sindhu River will flood the city. He rallies the people to lash boats together and form a floating bridge. They evacuate Mohenjo Daro and cross to the other side of the river. The dam collapses, and Maham, chained in the city square, is drowned. The once renowned Mohenjo Daro is no more. The survivors migrate to another river, which Sarman names Ganga.