The story follows Durga, a peace-loving college student who falls in love with his classmate, Gayatri. Their relationship faces immediate opposition from Gayatri’s father, Shivaji Rao, who manages a local cinema hall. Desperate to separate the two, Shivaji hires a local gangster, Bhushan Thapa, to kill Durga.
Isha Koppikar, often reduced to item numbers later in her career, delivers a raw, underrated performance as Durga. She is not a victim; she is a fighter whose fight is simply not enough. The scene where she laughs at Sanjay’s marriage proposal—not cruelly, but because she assumes he is joking—is a masterclass in the tragic gap between male expectation and female reality. durga it 39s not just a love story 2002 hindi movie 2021