
Johnny & Minnie Makhija, husband and wife, are famous actors from a renowned theatre company in Ludhiana.
During a performance of Hamlet, a young and handsome soldier of an underground rebel organisation B.O.L (Sukhwinder Singh) leaves just as Johnny begins the soliloquy, "To be or not to be." Johnny is outraged.
Johnny would be even more outraged if he knew that Sukhi visited Minnie Makhija in her dressing room.
A short time later, following the prohibition orders of the government, all performances are stopped, theatres are closed, and artists are hunted to be prosecuted or killed if they even as much as smelled of dissent or revolt.
Johnny & Minnie’s theatre is ransacked, and they are forced to hide underground.