'Dacoit: A Love Story' was released in theatres on April 10, 2026. Amid this, take a look at the Advi Sesh starrer's plot and how the movie beautifully comes to an end with his character's sacrifice.
One of the most anticipated movies of the year, Dacoit: A Love Story, has hit theatres on April 10, 2026. The trailer, released on April 4, 2026, had already suggested that the Shaneil Dao directorial would feature a storyline centred on betrayal and revenge within a love story. The movie has a stellar cast, with Advi Sesh, Mrunal Thakur, and Anurag Kashyap in lead roles.
It is worth noting that this film marks Advi Sesh's first film after a long gap of four years. Prior to Dacoit, he was previously seen in a cameo role in Hit: The Third Case in 2025. Well, if you haven't already watched the film, here's everything we know from its storyline to how things come to an end. (Spoilers ahead).
The plot of Dacoit revolves around a fractured romance in Madanapalle. ‘Haridas,’ who people affectionately call ‘Hari,’ (Adivi Sesh), is seen deeply falling in love with ‘Saraswati,’ better known as ‘Juliet’ (Mrunal Thakur). However, it feels as though their relationship is doomed from the start since 'Hari’ is a Dalit youngster, and their town has a rather rigid and violent caste dynamics in place. Since ‘Saraswati’ comes from an affluent and upper-caste family, they are against her and ‘Hari’s’ union.
With the pressure steadily building, their romance is finally crushed when ‘Saraswati’ is forced into an arranged marriage within her community. The tragedy does not end there. Things take a turn for the worse when a lie told by ‘Saraswati’ becomes the very reason ‘Hari’ gets framed for a murder that he did not commit. Not only was he arrested, but he also had to spend 13 years behind bars. This is when ‘Hari’ becomes fixated on what he perceives as a cold and calculated betrayal by the person he loved.
Soon, the narrative of Dacoit: A Love Story jumps to the COVID-19 era, in an effort to use the chaos caused by the pandemic to set the thriller plot in motion. We see that ‘Hari’ is being transferred from one prison to another. However, during this time, he somehow managed to escape with the help of his associate. Now, after spending over a decade in prison for a crime that he did not commit, his heart is hardened, and he becomes obsessed with two things: getting enough funds to escape the country and go to Dubai, and most importantly, destroying the life of the woman who had a hand in ruining his.
Interestingly, when ‘Hari’ does manage to track down ‘Saraswati,’ he comes across a woman whose life is unravelling on its own. At present, she is a housewife and a mother to a young daughter. Her husband, on the other hand, is lying critically ill in a hospital, and only a heart transplant can save his life. Unfortunately, it would require a staggering 1 crore rupees that ‘Saraswati’ does not have. Well, ‘Hari’ soon finds the perfect opportunity to exact his revenge.
Because he needs a massive sum for his getaway to Dubai, it leads him to target the illicit funds that were being hoarded by a corrupt hospital MD (Prakesh Raj). At this stage, he realises that he can use ‘Saraswati’s’ desperation against her. Soon, she gets embroiled in his complex heist as ‘Hari’ forces her to act as the getaway driver for the ambulance-based robbery that he has planned. While ‘Hari’ thinks he is using ‘Saraswati’s’ trauma for his own gain, he fails to realise that there are much larger truths at play.
While the first half of Dacoit largely comes across as a revenge thriller, the second half shifts into a layered emotional drama. During the second half, while ‘Hari’ and ‘Saraswati’ manage to pull off their heist, an eccentric cop named ‘CI Rambabu' (Anurag Kashyap) is hot on their trail. At this time, the film slowly gives viewers glimpses into what happened 13 years ago. Owing to the flashbacks and dialogues, ‘Hari’ realises that ‘Saraswati’ did not sell him out because she wanted wealth and comfort.
Apparently, ‘Saraswati’s’ family had planned to murder ‘Hari’ for daring to love an upper-caste woman. After finding this out, ‘Saraswati’ had to make the hard decision to marry the man her family chose for her, while testifying against ‘Hari’ and sending him to jail, the only place her family wouldn't be able to kill him.
The climax of the Dacoit happens in its last 20 minutes when the cat-and-mouse chase between ‘Hari’, ‘Saraswati’, and ‘CI Rambabu' reaches its boiling point. To note, ‘Rambabu’ plays a significant role in unravelling ‘Hari’s’ revenge plot, the hospital corruption, as well as the 13-year-old lie that made ‘Hari’ end up in jail. With no choice but to deny ‘Saraswati’s’ sacrifice for him and the danger posed to her young daughter and dying husband, ‘Hari’s’ cold ‘Dacoit’ persona melts away. He uses the stolen money to fund ‘Bhaskar’s’ heart transplant instead of using it to escape to Dubai like he initially planned. In this way, ‘Hari’ chooses love and protection over vengeance. This also justifies the film's “A Love Story” subtitle.
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