Three main themes dominate the storyline of Apaharan: the controversial and ubiquitous nexus between politicians and mafia; greed for position and power inherent in political leaders who will stoop to any levels to retain them; and finally how innocent youth caught in this anarchic could easily get disillusioned and resort to crime.
The movie centers around two main characters: Ajay Shastri (Ajay Devgan) and his father Prof. Raghuvansh Shastri (Mohan Agashe). The other main character in the movie is Tabrez Alam played by Nana Patekar. The heroine played by Bipasha Basu is more like a guest appearance than a heroine, she pretty much doesn't have any role in the film.
Ajay Shastri and his father share a tumultuous relationship. While his father is fighting against corruption, Ajay is running from pillar to post trying to land a job in the police department. In between Tabrez Alam, sitting MLA is running his own kidnapping mafia on the sly. Ajay gets drawn into the kidnapping mafia when he borrows money to bribe the bureaucrats for a police job. This involvement makes him the right hand man of Tabrez Alam and the leader of the mafia.
Meanwhile a journalist Akash Ranjan (Anup Soni) threatens to expose all the corruption to public. Ajay is given the assignment to eliminate Akash Ranjan by Tabrez Alam but at the last moment he finds out that it is none other than his father Prof. Raghuvansh Shastri who is behind the corruption expose. This makes Ajay realize his fault and he decides to turn himself in and with the help of an honest police officer he makes a statement against all involved including Tabrez Alam. Corruption wins and instead of getting punished Tabrez Alam becomes a minister.
The movie shows how legislative, executive and judiciary branches of the government are manipulated by self serving politicians in India.
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