Rakesh and Vimmi pack their bags and sneak out in the dark of night.

They bump into each other at a

train station and become friends after realizing their stories are similar. They support and encourage each
other to achieve their dreams: Vimmi tries to enter the Miss India contest but gets thrown out after an
argument. Rakesh tries to sell his ideas for an investment scheme, but a businessman turns him away. In
fact, a man he had met at a restaurant stole ideas from Rakesh's presentation file and, when he enters
the office, the interviewer states someone before he came in with the same idea. After finding out that
the businessman who Rakesh had approached, used his idea to make money, he and Vimmi con him and
take the money they believe is rightfully theirs.
Once they realize how easy it is to con people, they decide to run some more cons to raise money to
make it to Bombay.
Unfortunately, they find the lifestyle too exciting to give up. Adopting the names of 'Bunty' and 'Babli',
they successfully pull off con after con, looting the rich dressed as local guides, religious priests, health
inspectors, business partners, etc. Their flamboyant antics make them famous in newspapers nationwide.
Soon their friendship leads to romance and they decide to continue conning as husband and wife.
Little do Bunty and Babli know that DCP Dashrath Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) is catching up with their
cons, getting closer each day. He relentlessly pursues them across India in the hopes of putting them
behind bars. To complicate matters, Bunty and Babli have a child and, after a very close call eluding
Dashrath, they decide to quit conning for their child's sake. This decision leads to their capture by
Dashrath. While in custody, their heartfelt confessions and conversation soften the policeman's heart and
he lets them go, certain he had destroyed Bunty and Babli's career as criminals.
Three years later, Dashrath rescues Bunty and Babli from their mundane domestic lives by offering them
to work for the nation thwarting the activities of other scammers.