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Born in robber-infested Chambal, Manoj Kumar Sharma (Vikrant Massey) is the son of a clerk in the small village of Bilgaon. In 1997, his father Ramveer (Harish Khanna), an honest man, is suspended for…
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Born in robber-infested Chambal, Manoj Kumar Sharma (Vikrant Massey) is the son of a clerk in the small village of Bilgaon. In 1997, his father Ramveer (Harish Khanna), an honest man, is suspended for hitting a corrupt officer. The officer, Mr Chauhan wanted Ramveer to sign a file certifying the distribution of seeds to farmers. But the seeds had been taken by the local MLA for personal profit and hence Ramveer refuses to sign the file. Ramveer hits his officer with slippers when he threatens to get him suspended. Pushpa (Geeta Aggarwal Sharma) is Manoj's mother. Manoj prepares cheat slips for his Class 12 exams, as do all his batch-mates. The teachers at the local school help students cheat. However, a newly transferred police officer, DSP Dushyant Singh (Priyanshu Chatterjee), stops cheating at the school. The school belonged to the local MLA and the principal tries to bribe Dushyant and then tries to get Dushyant to talk to the MLA. Dushyant arrests the principal and implements a cleanup. As a result, all the students, including Manoj, fail the exam. Manoj was hoping to land a peon job after clearing 12th, but now he is rendered ineligible. Meanwhile, Manoj's father leaves home to challenge his suspension in the High Court. To support the family, Manoj and his brother Kamlesh run a traveling rickshaw. However, his brother is falsely accused of smuggling alcohol after hitting the local henchman of the MLA after he tries to have their passengers travel on a bus which was also owned by the local MLA. Local police officers frame his brother, but Manoj bails him out with the help of DSP Dushyant. Manoj says that he felt that honesty was useless till he met Dushyant. When Manoj expresses his desire to become an officer like him, Dushyant advises him to "stop cheating". One year later, Manoj passes his exams without cheating and pursues a B.A. to become a DSP. For 3 years, Pushpa sold all of the house assets, such as cows and calves) to fund Manoj's education and house expenses. Manoj clears the BA exam. His paternal grandmother (Sarita Joshi) gives him all her savings as he sets out to study in Gwalior, but he loses all his belongings on the way to a woman who steals them while he dozes off in the bus he is travelling in. He then learns that the government has decided to stop the Group I exams for MPPSC for the next three years. This destroys his dream of becoming a DSP. Struggling without money for food, a local hotel owner near the railway station offers him free meals out of pity and because he looked like a sincere student. There he meets Pritam Pandey (Anant V Joshi), who had also come to study for the PSC exam. Pandey's father calls him and tells him to prepare for the UPSC exam in Delhi. Pandey says that UPSC is the gateway to IPS, and an IPS officer is far senior to a DSP. A DSP needs 20 years of service to become an IPS. Manoj learns about UPSC and travels with Pritam to Delhi to study and become an IPS officer. However, Manoj that there are Lakhs of students just in Delhi, preparing for UPSC and gets depressed. Pandey explains that the UPSC has 3 stages, Prelims, Mains and Interview. He meets Gauri Bhaiya (Anshumaan Pushkar), a fellow aspirant on his last attempt to pass, who provides Manoj with work and a place to study. Gauri says that 200,000 students from Hindi Medium write the prelims exam, about 1500 make it to mains and 150 to Interviews. Out of which 25-30 students are selected as IAS or IPS. Gauri gets Manoj employed in a library to clean toilets, which pays Rs 280 per month and a room to stay. Gauri Bhaiya is unable to clear his final attempt and opens a tea shop named "Restart" and also provides guidance to other UPSC aspirants. Deep Mohan (Sam Mohan) was the topper from English Medium that year, and Pandey decides to start following him instead. In his first attempt, Manoj fails the preliminary examination, but with Gauri's help, he reappears and manages to clear it the following year. During a visit to a coaching center, he meets Shraddha Joshi (Medha Shankr), a UKPSC aspirant, and falls in love with her. Shraddha is impressed that Manoj cleared Prelims with self-study and without any coaching. Shraddha assumes he is an aeronautical engineer, but he was actually a literature graduate and does not correct her. Vikas Divyakirti takes one of the classes at the coaching center and praises Manoj essay as that to be the best in class. His relationship with Shraddha also suffers when she learns the truth about his degree. Disheartened, Manoj travels to Mussoorie to apologize to Shraddha and confess his love. However, she bluntly asks him to return to Delhi. Manoj is charged with theft in the library when the owner says that rough paper was sold for Rs 6,200 earlier, but Manoj only gave him Rs 4,800. Manoj picks up his slippers when he is called a thief but then leaves the library. Despite hard work, Manoj fails to clear his main examinations that year due to a trivial mistake. Manoj wrote an Essay in the English qualifying paper on the topic of Terrorism in India, but the actual topic in the paper was Tourism in India. Manoj visits his home and finds that his grandmother has passed away. Manoj finds his family living in abject poverty and is even more determined to achieve his ambitions. He returns to Delhi, determined to pass the examination. Manoj works in a mill to earn money to send home and cover his own expenses, where he also resides. Manoj's father visits him at the mill and is a broken man. His belief in the virtues of honesty is broken and he advises Manoj to give in to the lure of corruption. Shraddha arrives to their coaching class in Delhi and apologizes to Manoj for being rude. They reconcile and again become close. Manoj passes the preliminaries, and Shraddha expresses her love for him. Manoj fails his 3rd attempt the mains examination. Pandey warns Manoj that girls only stick with winners and not with losers. He asks Manoj to focus on his studies. Manoj redoubles his efforts for his next attempt. Mains has 20 questions of 200 words each to be attempted in 3 hours. This gives 9 minutes for each answer, in which 40 seconds are needed to frame an answer and remaining 8 minutes and 20 seconds to write the 200 words. 4000 words per exams and 9 exams in total, which means 36,000 words. He reaches out to Deep Mohan for help. Deep asks Manoj to write an essay on himself in 8:20 minutes. Deep makes Manoj realize that writing is not his strength. Deep tells Manoj that it is unlikely that he will get selected. Gauri moves Manoj to his own house and tells him to give up working odd jobs and focus completely on his studies. He finally clears the main examinations, while Shraddha clears her UKPSC examinations as well to become a Deputy Collector. Meanwhile, Pritam, who failed his exams, spreads rumors to Shraddha's family that she has been sleeping with Manoj. Manoj becomes angry with Pritam but realizes that Pritam really wants to be a reporter, but his father pressured him to pursue the UPSC. Manoj advises Pritam to stand up to his father. During the interview round, Manoj answers every question honestly. He was told not to mention that he failed in the 12th class, but he decides to be honest and is asked to leave. One interviewer is impressed with his honesty and asks him to wait. He reads the letter written and given to him by Shraddha before the interview, asking him to marry her, irrespective of the outcome of the interview. Manoj is called back inside. He says that failing the 12th class was the biggest turning point of his life as he learned not to cheat. He learned that getting a 3rd division with honesty was better than getting a 1st division by cheating. He says that this is his last attempt, but if he is not selected, he will still not stop as becoming IAS is not the goal. The goal is to work for the betterment of the nation, and he will continue to put efforts till be achieves his goal. He says he will become a school teacher and teach students to work and study with honesty. Two months later, the results are declared, with Manoj qualifying for the rank of IPS officer. One year later, Manoj, now an IPS officer, meets DSP Dushyant Singh at the police station in Mandsaur to thank the DSP for encouraging him. Manoj marries Shraddha, and Pritam begins working as a news reporter.
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Born in robber-infested Chambal, Manoj Kumar Sharma (Vikrant Massey) is the son of a clerk in the small village of Bilgaon. In 1997, his father Ramveer (Harish Khanna), an honest man, is suspended for hitting a corrupt officer. The officer, Mr Chauhan wanted Ramveer to sign a file certifying the distribution of seeds to farmers.
But the seeds had been taken by the local MLA for personal profit and hence Ramveer refuses to sign the file. Ramveer hits his officer with slippers when he threatens to get him suspended. Pushpa (Geeta Aggarwal Sharma) is Manoj's mother.
Manoj prepares cheat slips for his Class 12 exams, as do all his batch-mates. The teachers at the local school help students cheat. However, a newly transferred police officer, DSP Dushyant Singh (Priyanshu Chatterjee), stops cheating at the school.
The school belonged to the local MLA and the principal tries to bribe Dushyant and then tries to get Dushyant to talk to the MLA. Dushyant arrests the principal and implements a cleanup. As a result, all the students, including Manoj, fail the exam.
Manoj was hoping to land a peon job after clearing 12th, but now he is rendered ineligible. Meanwhile, Manoj's father leaves home to challenge his suspension in the High Court. To support the family, Manoj and his brother Kamlesh run a traveling rickshaw.
However, his brother is falsely accused of smuggling alcohol after hitting the local henchman of the MLA after he tries to have their passengers travel on a bus which was also owned by the local MLA. Local police officers frame his brother, but Manoj bails him out with the help of DSP Dushyant. Manoj says that he felt that honesty was useless till he met Dushyant.
When Manoj expresses his desire to become an officer like him, Dushyant advises him to "stop cheating". One year later, Manoj passes his exams without cheating and pursues a B.A. to become a DSP.
For 3 years, Pushpa sold all of the house assets, such as cows and calves) to fund Manoj's education and house expenses. Manoj clears the BA exam. His paternal grandmother (Sarita Joshi) gives him all her savings as he sets out to study in Gwalior, but he loses all his belongings on the way to a woman who steals them while he dozes off in the bus he is travelling in.
He then learns that the government has decided to stop the Group I exams for MPPSC for the next three years. This destroys his dream of becoming a DSP. Struggling without money for food, a local hotel owner near the railway station offers him free meals out of pity and because he looked like a sincere student.
There he meets Pritam Pandey (Anant V Joshi), who had also come to study for the PSC exam. Pandey's father calls him and tells him to prepare for the UPSC exam in Delhi. Pandey says that UPSC is the gateway to IPS, and an IPS officer is far senior to a DSP.
A DSP needs 20 years of service to become an IPS. Manoj learns about UPSC and travels with Pritam to Delhi to study and become an IPS officer. However, Manoj that there are Lakhs of students just in Delhi, preparing for UPSC and gets depressed.
Pandey explains that the UPSC has 3 stages, Prelims, Mains and Interview. He meets Gauri Bhaiya (Anshumaan Pushkar), a fellow aspirant on his last attempt to pass, who provides Manoj with work and a place to study. Gauri says that 200,000 students from Hindi Medium write the prelims exam, about 1500 make it to mains and 150 to Interviews.
Out of which 25-30 students are selected as IAS or IPS. Gauri gets Manoj employed in a library to clean toilets, which pays Rs 280 per month and a room to stay. Gauri Bhaiya is unable to clear his final attempt and opens a tea shop named "Restart" and also provides guidance to other UPSC aspirants.
Deep Mohan (Sam Mohan) was the topper from English Medium that year, and Pandey decides to start following him instead. In his first attempt, Manoj fails the preliminary examination, but with Gauri's help, he reappears and manages to clear it the following year. During a visit to a coaching center, he meets Shraddha Joshi (Medha Shankr), a UKPSC aspirant, and falls in love with her.
Shraddha is impressed that Manoj cleared Prelims with self-study and without any coaching. Shraddha assumes he is an aeronautical engineer, but he was actually a literature graduate and does not correct her. Vikas Divyakirti takes one of the classes at the coaching center and praises Manoj essay as that to be the best in class.
His relationship with Shraddha also suffers when she learns the truth about his degree. Disheartened, Manoj travels to Mussoorie to apologize to Shraddha and confess his love. However, she bluntly asks him to return to Delhi.
Manoj is charged with theft in the library when the owner says that rough paper was sold for Rs 6,200 earlier, but Manoj only gave him Rs 4,800. Manoj picks up his slippers when he is called a thief but then leaves the library. Despite hard work, Manoj fails to clear his main examinations that year due to a trivial mistake.
Manoj wrote an Essay in the English qualifying paper on the topic of Terrorism in India, but the actual topic in the paper was Tourism in India. Manoj visits his home and finds that his grandmother has passed away. Manoj finds his family living in abject poverty and is even more determined to achieve his ambitions.
He returns to Delhi, determined to pass the examination. Manoj works in a mill to earn money to send home and cover his own expenses, where he also resides. Manoj's father visits him at the mill and is a broken man.
His belief in the virtues of honesty is broken and he advises Manoj to give in to the lure of corruption. Shraddha arrives to their coaching class in Delhi and apologizes to Manoj for being rude. They reconcile and again become close.
Manoj passes the preliminaries, and Shraddha expresses her love for him. Manoj fails his 3rd attempt the mains examination. Pandey warns Manoj that girls only stick with winners and not with losers.
He asks Manoj to focus on his studies. Manoj redoubles his efforts for his next attempt. Mains has 20 questions of 200 words each to be attempted in 3 hours.
This gives 9 minutes for each answer, in which 40 seconds are needed to frame an answer and remaining 8 minutes and 20 seconds to write the 200 words. 4000 words per exams and 9 exams in total, which means 36,000 words. He reaches out to Deep Mohan for help.
Deep asks Manoj to write an essay on himself in 8:20 minutes. Deep makes Manoj realize that writing is not his strength. Deep tells Manoj that it is unlikely that he will get selected.
Gauri moves Manoj to his own house and tells him to give up working odd jobs and focus completely on his studies. He finally clears the main examinations, while Shraddha clears her UKPSC examinations as well to become a Deputy Collector. Meanwhile, Pritam, who failed his exams, spreads rumors to Shraddha's family that she has been sleeping with Manoj.
Manoj becomes angry with Pritam but realizes that Pritam really wants to be a reporter, but his father pressured him to pursue the UPSC. Manoj advises Pritam to stand up to his father. During the interview round, Manoj answers every question honestly.
He was told not to mention that he failed in the 12th class, but he decides to be honest and is asked to leave. One interviewer is impressed with his honesty and asks him to wait. He reads the letter written and given to him by Shraddha before the interview, asking him to marry her, irrespective of the outcome of the interview.
Manoj is called back inside. He says that failing the 12th class was the biggest turning point of his life as he learned not to cheat. He learned that getting a 3rd division with honesty was better than getting a 1st division by cheating.
He says that this is his last attempt, but if he is not selected, he will still not stop as becoming IAS is not the goal. The goal is to work for the betterment of the nation, and he will continue to put efforts till be achieves his goal. He says he will become a school teacher and teach students to work and study with honesty.
Two months later, the results are declared, with Manoj qualifying for the rank of IPS officer. One year later, Manoj, now an IPS officer, meets DSP Dushyant Singh at the police station in Mandsaur to thank the DSP for encouraging him. Manoj marries Shraddha, and Pritam begins working as a news reporter..