Acharya Drona arrives to Hastinapur and starts teaching the Kuru princes the are of warfare and the use of weaponry. Soon Arjuna becomes his favourite student and he vows to make Arjuna the greatest archer in the world. When he encounters a tribal boy Eklavya with skills matching Arjuna, out of his insecurity, he askes the boy for his thumb so he cannot practice archery anymore.