Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav) tells the epic and darkly humorous story of his rise from poor villager to successful entrepreneur in modern India. Resourceful and ambitious, our young protagonist jockeys for position as driver for Ashok (Rajkummar) and Pinky (Priyanka Chopra), who have just returned from America. Society has trained Balram to be a servant, so he strives to become the right-hand man for his wealthy masters. But after a night of betrayal, he realizes the lengths his masters will go to to trap him in order to save themselves. On the verge of losing everything, Balram rebels against a rigged life and an unequal system to rise up and become a new kind of master. Based on the New York Times bestseller and 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel.