In the town of Wasseypur, a town in Bengal in the 1940s controlled by a family known as the Qureshi's a man named Shahid Khan begins robbing trains using the name of the Qureshi's famed ancestor,Sultana,after being forced to leave the village by the Qureshi leader he goes to the nearby city of Dhanbad and after a series of events becomes an enforcer for a powerful Coal owner named Ramadhir Singh,who upon discovering a plot by Shahid to kill him has him assasinated ,his son ,Sardar and his brother-in-law, Nasir manage to escape and Sardar finding out about his father's fate,Sardar swears revenge and as he returns to Wasseypur to take revenge he reignites a battle with the ruthless Sultan Qureshi leading to a generation spanning battle between the gangs of Wasseypur.—RRR