Colonel Sodi, who disguises himself as Dadabhai, has a vice of smoking beedi, but in one scene he just states that he smokes beedi by taking it out of the cigarette box; it's obvious that the beedi has not been lit up.
As the film begins, Brigadier Bedi (Kabir Bedi) tells Major Ajit Arya (Nana Patekar) about Colonel Balbir Singh Sodhi's (Amitabh Bachchan) failed assassination attempt on minister Veer Bhadra Singh (Danny Denzongpa), at Major Rathod's (Jackie Shroff) cremation.
However, in a flashback towards the end of the film it is revealed that the Brigadier was informed by Major Rathod about Veer Bhadra Singh's nefarious activities before the latter killed him. But the Brigadier initiates no inquiries against Veer Bhadra Singh, and paints him as a victim while briefing Major Arya.