Dillagi is the story of Ranveer (Sunny Deol), and Rajvir (Bobby Deol), who fall in love with the same girl Shalini (Urmila Matondkar). They are two very dissimilar sons of Dara Singh who has come from rural Punjab and made it big in Bombay. The elder Ranveer is the disciplined and hardworking hotelier. The younger Rajvir is the spoilt brat whose hobbies are discos, bowling alleys and girls. Shalini falls in love with Rajvir, who is in her college but when she wants to give a serious tone to their relationship he insults her. Nursing a broken heart she is won over by the earnest Ranveer who had lost his heart to her at first sight at a marriage sangeet. But Rajvir too realizes his love for Shalini and the film climaxes in an emotional moment between the brothers.