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NIKAMMA is the story of a good-for-nothing guy’s love-hate relationship with her sister-in-law. Aditya aka Adi (Abhimanyu Dassani) is an unemployed youth with an unusual power. He has a photographic memory and can easily remember and recall past episodes. His elder brother, Raman (Samir Soni) dotes on him and fulfills... all his wishes. But after Raman gets married to Avni (Shilpa Shetty Kundra), he begins to shower all his love on her. Adi feels neglected and in anger, he leaves the house and stays with his paternal uncle (Sachin Khedekar) for more than a year. He then returns home and finds out that Raman is getting transferred to Bengaluru while Avni is getting shifted to a city called Dhamli. Raman tells Adi to accompany Avni to Dhamli. Adi reluctantly does so. Avni takes charge of a top position in RTO and she compels Adi to do all the household chores, much to his annoyance. One day, he gets fed up and is about to run away when he bumps into Natasha aka Nikki (Shirely Setia). She instantly proposes to him. Adi is taken aback but he decides to stay back and begin an affair with Natasha. He soon finds out that she is Avni’s cousin and that she had seen Adi in Avni and Raman’s wedding. That’s when she had fallen for him and had decided that she’ll marry him. Natasha is residing in the college hostel in Dhamli but she leaves it and shifts in Avni’s place so that she could be close to Adi. Avni is unaware of their love affair but when she finds out, she sends Natasha to her parent’s place. This angers Adi even more. On the other hand, Avni also frustrates one more individual – Vikramjit Bisht (Abhimanyu Singh). He’s touted as the next MLA and runs a taxi service called Super. In order to expand his business and ensure that passengers opt for Super, Vikramjit floods the roads with his cabs, some of which are illegal. When the bus service association raises an objection, he sets fire to one of the buses, killing 40 people on board. He is also hand-in-gloves with Avni’s senior, Arun Rastogi. Avni, however, decides to take action against Vikramjit and seizes his illegal cars. Vikramjit is so angry that he goes to RTO to kill her. At the same moment, Adi meets his uncle who tells him about the sacrifices made by Avni for his sake. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
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