Gola Barood is an action crime drama. The movie revolves around Vijay (Chunky Pandey), the son of an honest police officer Mahendra (Sudhir Pandey). While investigating the case of dreaded criminal Dabar (Sadashiv Amrapurkar), Mahendra gets shot, and when Dabar tries to kill Vijay, he is rescued by Shambu (Shatrughan Sinha), a truck driver. Vijay vows to avenge his father’s death and works under a Deputy jailor to bring justice to his father. However, while working in the jail, he finds out that Shambu is kept here for a crime. What might have been the situation that would have forced an honest man like Shambu to take to crime? Will Vijay be able to help Shambu out of all this mess?