Jeetu (Shahid Kapur) is a small town hustler who is constantly in debt and dodging creditors and moneylenders. His father Jayved Prasad, a respectable retired schoolteacher and his fiancée Pooja (Sushma Reddy) are made to suffer the consequences of his instability and his debts. Everyone including Pooja's father Mohan tells Jeetu, that it would be better if he were to kill himself as he keeps getting his family into trouble. He doesn't feel that he is worthy of Pooja and encourages her to marry someone else, which she doesn't agree to.

Jeetu then jumps into the sea trying to drown him so that his family gets to claim his life insurance and pay off some of his debts. Jeetu is found entangled in fishing nets by a pair of fishermen Bandya (Paresh Rawal) and Gundya (Rajpal Yadav) who take him home with them. One of the fishermen, Gundya, owes money to Prabhat Singh Chauhan, a Gujrati businessman. On discovering Jeetu caught like a mermaid in their nets, they read a note in Jeetus pocket that leads them to assume that he is a millionaire and they hatch a scheme to give Jeetu's services to Prabhat Singh Chauhan in exchange for the money that they owe.

Jeetu, sensing he may reveal too much, plays safe and pretends to be a deaf-mute and plays along with them. Complications ensue when Chauhan's niece Shruti (Kareena Kapoor) also turns out to be a mute but not deaf. Her over protective elder brother, Mangal Singh Chauhan (Suniel Shetty), is trying to get her married but the engagement is called off, leaving her in disgrace. Jeetu's secret is revealed one night when Shruti and her cousin Meenakshi (Neha Dhupia) discover him drunk and singing. They agree to keep his secret in return he agrees to play a part in getting a greedy bridegroom to cancel his marriage to Shruti. For this he has to pretend to be Shruti's lover.

Meenakshi comes to realize that Jeetu owes people a lot of money. Jeetu appears to her as a person who could do anything for money. In the interim, Meenakshi's uncle Prabhat Singh Chauhan (Om Puri) is involved in an accident while carrying a lot of cash and Jeetu was with him all the while. Meenakshi tells the police of her suspicions about Jeetu and the police beat him up. Later Prabhat Singh comes home saying that it was Jeetu who had actually save his life by taking him to the hospital at the right time. The girls change their opinion of Jeetu after seeing this behavior and Shruti confesses her love for him.

There have been stories about rich and poor. There have been stories about good and evil. There have been stories about powerful and weak.

Now witness the story of Powerful v/s Powerful!

Because that's the essence of Madhur Bhandarkar's second in the trilogy of straight-out-of-life films – Corporate. Because Corporate is the world that is ruled by the Power of P

Paisa Power Politics

And when the three are held strongly in the hands of one single entity, the entity becomes supreme and undefeatable. In one word - Invincible!

For ages, the world of business has been powered by one single philosophy – Know something that no one Knows! And this has been quoted by none other than Aristotle himself. Now in 21st century, matters have become further complex as it just doesn't suffice to know what other doesn't know. In fact it is to know what the other person knows...and a little more!

Madhur Bhandarkar brings to you to the story of two such warring corporate houses lead by Vinay Sehgal [Rajat Kapoor], Managing Director, Sehgal Group of Industries and Dharmesh Marwah [Raj Babbar], Managing Director, Marwah International Pvt. Ltd. While there are people like Kay Kay Menon, Harsh Chayya, Bharat Dhabolkar, Minissha Lamba and Sameer Dattani on either side of the two business groups, there is Nishigandha [Bipasha Basu], a businesswoman with high aspirations and hunger to move to the top, who is at the center of all the action.

What happens when market heats up to welcome international players? Both Sehgal

Group of Industries and Marwah International Pvt. Ltd. try to get their hands on the best of the deals. In the process what comes across is a cut throat competition that threatens to cross the boundaries of being healthy.

Principals become a thing of the past, ethics are forgotten, evil takes over, friendship turns sour, rules are bent, hunger of power eats up everything and anything that comes in the way, corruption shows its ugly face and all that remains is the thirst for wealth, fame and success!

Is that the business that goes behind the glass walls of a glitzy corporate house?

If the war was just between two individuals or two business houses at maximum, the things could have remained behind the scenes! But that's not all as all the fight, drama and its implications impact the common man on the street too. The man who is unaware about the way a business works and just worries about his next meal!