Laholi is a small village in India whose inhabitants are poor simple-minded and are used to their lives being controlled by the dictatorial Landlord Thakurain and her brother Baj Bahadur. Although Lilaram is the one with the highest educational qualifications he is unable to secure any job. He decides to make a living selling lottery tickets especially the Delhi-based Malamaal Weekly but is barely able to make ends meet. Then one day he finds out that one of his lottery tickets is a winner. He concocts a scheme with his wife which involves pawning her pet goat with the Thakurain getting people together for a feast so that he can get their tickets back - all in vain. Then he finds out that the only one who was absent was the town drunk Anthony Fernandes. When he goes to Anthony's house he finds him dead happily clutching his winning lottery ticket. When Lilaram tries to take the ticket from Anthony's hand another villager Balwant happens to come by both of them compromise and decide to share the one crore prize. They decide to toss the body in the river. Then Kanhaiya who wants to marry Lilaram's daughter Sukhmani comes by he overhears and is also made a partner. Kanhaiya is asked to dispose off the body which he does. The next day when Lilaram telephones the lottery office he is told that Anthony had already phoned in his winning number. Lilaram Kanhaiya and Balwant rush to get Anthony's body back which they find perched on a tree as Kanhaiya had not done a good job. They take the body back and it is there that they are met by Anthony's estranged sister Mary who also knew about the winning ticket. After a few clarifications Mary her husband and her child are also made partners. Then the sky literally falls on them when they find several village businessmen to whom Anthony owed money assembled in front of the house to collect their dues. They too are inducted as partners and then begins the trial of convincing the Lottery Inspector Jayesh Agarwal that Anthony is alive. Watch hilarious chaos unfold when Baj Bahadur who also wants to marry Sukhmani finds out about the winning lottery ticket.
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