Tandav is a story that happens in the capital city of the world's largest democracy - DILLI (New Delhi), where it takes you inside the closed, chaotic doors of power and manipulation and uncover the darkest lanes of Indian politics.
Prime Minister Devki Nandan Singh is about to succeed the throne third time,his son Samar Pratap Singh joins his party but Devki Nandan's friend Gopal Das warns him that Samar might change the game completely once he enters the party.Anuradha Kishore keep of Devkii Nandan an prominent member of party Samar has accepted her and her son Raghu's relationship with his father.Samar plans and kills Devki Nandan by poisoning leading him to an heart attack so that he can take the throne of Prime Minister. On the other end a student Shiva whose part of college politics is protesting with friends where farmers are protesting against an ice factory which is coming on the farmland but nobody is interested in taking their story as everybody is covering on Devki Nandan's death.On Devki Nandan's funeral Anuradha tells Samar she has proof that he killed is father and he should offer her the Prime Ministers seat in order to save himself from getting exposed.Samar chooses Anuradha for the throne but finds from a cop Gurpal Chauhan about Shiva and decides to get him into politics to get his work done.