Marjaavaan is an action romantic drama about Raghu (Sidharth Malhotra), a street-smart ruffian who falls in love with the mute and beautiful girl Zoya (Tara Sutaria). Both are happy in their own world until Vishnu (Riteish Deshmukh) a dwarf and small-time gangster who also falls for Zoya. Vishnu’s harmful intentions turn the lover's world upside down while their encounters take both the men at a point where one needs to die and the other to survive in love.