Aurangzeb wished to turn Burhanpur into the capital city and appointed Bahadur Khan as the Subhedar who made the lives of its residents miserable. Unable to tolerate this, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj raids the city and saves the people from the unjust rule.

A captive king turns the tables on his Mughal captors, engineering an ingenious escape from Agra that will echo through centuries of Indian history.