The film is set in British India. The story is about a young doctor, Govardhan (Mohanlal), who is wrongly accused of bombing a train carrying 55 people including British officials, and thus jailed in a cellular jail at Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands by the British. The film shows sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners in the cellular jail, including leading participants of the freedom movement. The extremely inhuman conditions faced by the prisoners in the jail is accurately depicted in the film.
Alex Draper plays the sadistic jailor David Berry, who is of Irish descent, while John Kolvenbach plays the kind-hearted English doctor, Len Hutton.
Annu Kapoor plays the role of Veer Savarkar who is incarcerated there and tries his best to keep the spirit of the prisoners going through unbelievable torture. Tabu plays Mohanlal's lover who keeps waiting forever for him to come back.
Who is wrongly accused of bombing a train carrying 55 people?
Govardhan