- One family member tries to help her own family when they are trapped in a dark controversy.
- Based on a real-life story, Mulk revolves around the struggles of a Muslim joint family from a town in India, who fight to reclaim their honor after a member of their family takes to terrorism. Murad Ali Mohammed (Rishi Kapoor), a former-lawyer lives amiably with his family in a densely-populated diverse locality of Varanasi. His daily routine included a cup of tea from a tea stall managed and owned by one of his close Hindu friends and a brief chat session with his Hindu friends. Tabassum (Neena Gupta) is Murad's wife. Bilaal's daughter Aayat (Vartika Sing) and Choti Tabassum (Prachee Shah Pandya), Bilaal's wife
His life is thrown into a tizzy when his nephew Shahid (Prateik Babbar) decides to go astray and join hands with a terrorist organization to plan a bomb-blast. His brother Bilaal Ali Mohammed (Manoj Pahwa) is taken into a custody for questioning. Shahid had taken SIMs from his father's mobile phone shop to coordinate the operation, without Bilal's knowledge. Soon the police identifies Shahid as one of the suspects (based on a CCTV footage of him getting off the bus before the blast) and issues a warrant for his dad Bilal.
Almost overnight the entire community turns against Murad and his family. They are socially outcast. Shahid is tracked down and shot by the police. The family refuses to let his dead body enter their house, even as Bilal is arrested and taken away. Bilal is kept in custody by arguments of Santosh Anand (Ashutosh Rana), Public Prosecutor. Meanwhile Aayat remembers seeing Shahid with their cousin Rashid (Ashrut Jain) watching bomb making training videos together. But before Murad can question Rashid, he is whisked off to Dubai by his parents.
Murad Ali and his estranged Hindu daughter-in-law Aarti Mohammed (Taapsee Pannu) struggle to get their name cleared in the court of law. Santosh produces Bilal's phone records that has numerous calls from Pakistan. Santosh goes further to prove that Bilal's whole family was involved in raising a terrorist and preparing him for sacrifice in the same of religion. Then Santosh tries to prove that Murad had a role in radicalizing Shahid and asks for his police custody, which the judge grants. Murad asks Aarti to fight the case on his behalf.
Next Santosh demonstrates that Shahid used a pvt telephone network & Aarti counters by saying that Bilal was not educated & hence had no clue what the antenna and the equipment was being used for. He also shows that Bilal's mobile SIM shop issued 14 SIMS without proper KYC, 4 of which were used in the blast by Shahid and his associates. He also presents evidence that 1 day after the blast, Bilal received USD 1500 in cash from a Pakistani courier. Aarti tries to argue that Bilal's sister sent the money, but her arguments are ineffective.
After the sudden death of Bilal, Aftab (Murad's son) comes home & begs Murad and entire family to leave India. But Murad decides to stay and fight on. Aarti takes the matter into her hands to get her father-in-law and his family acquitted of all the charges that were laid upon them on the basis of mere prejudice that all Muslims are breeders of terrorists and all the terrorists are Muslims. She shows that the phone calls from Pakistan were from Bilal's family. The telephone antenna was installed by Shahid, saying that it was to boost the TV dish signal and the whole family believed him. she calls Murad and asks him prove his patriotism, proving that it is improvable and the whole case is built on perceptions. Then she calls investigating officer Danish, and asks him if un-touchability and caste-ism are also terrorism by his definition? She puts Danish under emotional pressure and gets him to admit that he could have arrested Shahid, but due to his prejudice and bias, he shot him instead.
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