Comrade Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is an Indian politician and a former member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India. He was the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011.
Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risks his career to try and call attention to this polluted water source, while a local group of building contractors attempt to discredit him in various ways.