Apaharan is a film set against the backdrop of a lucrative and booming kidnapping industry in the Hindi heartland of India and in other parts of India. The industry of kidnapping spans all kinds of people... The "paan walah" who sells the "purjah", the brokers who buy them, the local petty goons who execute the kidnapping, the middleman who buys the victim, the heavyweight dons who negotiates and make the real profit... All this while the politicians and police are given their due cuts. Ajay Shastri (Ajay Devgan) aspires for a job in the police force, which is his ticket to a future of power, respectability, social status and a secure life with his childhood sweetheart Megha (Bipasha Basu). And he hopes it will make his father ( Mohan Agashe) proud. Ajay is prepared to do anything to meet this end. Tragically his desperate attempt at success is snapped by the choices made by his father. Dejected and disillusioned, Ajay is drawn into a dark world from which there is no return... Under the aegis of self-proclaimed minority political leader Tabrez Alam (Nana Patekar), Ajay soon tastes success and power.. What he doesn’t know is that one day the dark labyrinths will loose their lure.. He will have to face the truth. ...Will there be a redemption?