four good-for-nothing friends - roy (ritesh deshmukh), adi (arshad warsi), boman (aashish chaudhary), and manav(javed jaffrey) - are kicked out of their house by their landlady (suhasini mulay) for not paying their rents. desperate to earn money, they devise up a plan. adi tells manav to steal a painting from the house. they decide to sell it to the son of the late businessman dwiwedi. however, manav accidentally picks up a blank painting not knowing the reality. they humorously sell the painting for rs.20,000 to dwiwedi. they then pick up the original painting with the intention to sell it to mr. aggarwal, not knowing that he has been murdered. the case is handled by inspector kulkarni (murli sharma). he learns that before mr. aggrawal was murdered, he was speaking on the phone to somebody and he mentioned the words "horse" and "grass." he interprets these words to be some code language. the four arrive at agrawal's residence. kulkarni demands to see the painting. seeing the horse and grass on the painting, he immediately arrests them.