In early 1950s, Marty was an aspiring and hot headed american table tennis player from a poor background, raised by a single mother in cramped living conditions, with the dream of becoming a world champion. After years of relentless effort, he reaches the finals of the British Open - a regional highly reputed championship but loses terribly to Endo, a calm Japanese table tennis player, leaving him heartbroken and shattered.

Shortly after, Marty is approached by a powerful businessman, Mr. Rockwell, who offers him a large sum of money to play a rematch against Endo - on the condition that Marty deliberately throws the match in front of a live audience.

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Madan is a death row inmate who is scheduled to die in 5 days. He is in prison for murdering the vice president's son. Hari, a structural engineer, is his younger brother. Hari stages an armed robbery in a nearby bank and gets sent to the same jail as Madan. In that crime, no money was taken and nobody was harmed. Hari believes that his brother is innocent and thus he staged that armed robbery to break his brother out of prison. Hari attempts a Prison break and manages to rescue Madan, but he inevitably also has to take another inmate, Ram out of the jail with them or risk discovery. Ram is a Notorious criminal and while on the run he commits two murders. After 10 days on the run, new conclusive evidence comes to light, and Madan is proven innocent. Had Hari never staged a prison break, Madan would have been dead by then. After a few days, Madan, Hari, and Ram are all apprehended by the police.