Gunday is a romantic action drama set in Bengal that revolves around two childhood friends – Bikram Bose (Ranveer Singh) and Bala Bhattacharya (Arjun Kapoor). The two friends aspire to be coal mafia as they often loot the coal trains and sell the coal. Everything seems to go fine for the two until they meet a cabaret dancer named Nandita (Priyanka Chopra) and fall in love with her. The love for the same girl causes rivalry and misunderstandings between the two friends that leads to a horrible end.