In the small village of Ramgarh, the retired policeman Thakur Baldev Singh summons a pair of small-time thieves that he had once arrested. Thakur feels that the duo – Veeru and Jai – would be ideal to help him capture Gabbar Singh, a dacoit wanted by the authorities for a ?50,000[b] reward. Thakur tells them to surrender Gabbar to him, alive, for an additional ?20,000 reward.