Kabir Singh翻拍自2017年的泰卢固语电影 Arjun Reddy, 讲述一位脾气暴躁的外科医生因女友被迫嫁给他人而沉迷于毒品和酒精的故事。

辛巴（兰维尔·辛格 Ranveer Singh 饰）自幼失去了父母，沦为孤儿。受生活所迫，辛巴不得不在街头流氓大哥的教导之下成为了一名扒手。在年幼的辛巴心目中，看似无所不能的流氓大哥就是这个世界的神。一起行窃的过程中，辛巴和流氓大哥被警察抓住了，看着流氓大哥在警察面前点头哈腰的样子，辛巴的信仰破碎了，他终于明白，在流氓大哥的上面，还有更权威的角色存在，那就是警察。
就这样，辛巴立志要成为一名警察，并在经过了多年的不懈努力之后，终于坐上了警察局局长的交椅。然而，辛巴并不是那种惩奸除恶的好人，他仗着自己的权利和地位和当地流氓团伙沆瀣一气，惹得市民们敢怒不敢言。

老警察局长即将退休，新警察翻看局长书柜，发现库鲁普案件：库鲁普是印度空军的老油条，在役期间投机倒把、倒买倒卖。退役后到伊朗跨国公司工作，为阿拉伯王子做帮手。为贪污阿拉伯王子的300万美元费用，回印度找朋友设计自杀保险索赔。几个朋友为了贪图80万卢比的保险赔款，杀了他人假冒库鲁普自杀现场，被警方追查后仍然逃脱制裁。

Vaidehi（Manisha Koirala）嫁给了Raghuvir（Jackie Shroff），遭受了痛苦不幸的婚姻，当她得知自己怀孕的时候，她决定离他而去了，Raghuvir想从她那儿得到孩子。她坚持对自由的追求，她遇到了将要出嫁的新娘Mythili，戏剧艺术家Janaki（Madhuri Dixit）和乡村助产士Ramdulari（Rekha） - 所有这些人都是大男人主义的受害者。然而，他们拒绝羞辱，争取自己的权利。

1989 film by Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Vijay Singh is a disgraced former Merchant-Navy officer who is branded as a coward after he abandons his crew during an emergency. Guilt-ridden and trying to forget his past, he takes up work at a coal mine where he gets trapped with other miners after a flood hits them.

1988 film by N. Chandra

1981 film by Prakash Mehra

Rajan gets Geeta pregnant and wants her to get an abortion, but Geeta refuses, and gives birth to a baby boy and leaves him in an orphanage. Fate plays a strange trick and the baby is adopted by Geeta and her new husband ACP Anand, who are led to believe that the child is Anand's. Rajan goes abroad and loses touch with Geeta. Things start to heat up when the baby, all grown up, starts working with Rajan,who has now returned from abroad and taken to crime.