Rai (Sanjeev Kumar) is the country's most powerful smuggler, surrounded by his fortress of power and money. Till one day his daughter Sonia (Poonam Dhillon) falls in love with Ravi (Shashi Kapoor) a police officer. The question begins to haunt Rai - What is more important? His children's happiness or his life as a rich and powerful underworld Don. SAWAAL is a powerful confrontation of life's greatest motivating forces - self against selfishness, love against power, good against evil.