Vishwanath was Subhash Ghai's second blockbuster film that reunited the lead cast of Shatrughan Sinha and Reena Roy from his debut hit Kalicharan. The film tells the story of an honest lawyer named Vishwanath who is framed and imprisoned by an underworld don named GNK, but seeks vengeance after his release. Though Subhash Ghai named his first two films after famous Indian cricketers, he was not actually a big cricket fan himself.