Holiday

Virat Bakshi (Akshay Kumar), Captain in D.I.A., a wing of Indian Army, returns to his home in Mumbai on a holiday. On his arrival, his parents rush him to see Saiba Thapar (Sonakshi Sinha), who they wanted him to marry.

But Virat rejects her with an excuse that she is old fashioned and not his type. On the contrary, Saiba is a professional boxer, and is completely modern in her outlook. Virat notices her in a boxing match and falls for her instantly.One day, while traveling in a bus with his friend sub-inspector Mukund Makhiya Deshmukh (Sumeet Raghavan), Virat, while chasing a man who he regards with suspicion when he tries to flee the scene of a check going on after a passenger reports his wallet as stolen, witnesses a bomb explosion killing innocent people. Virat manages to capture the man who planted the bomb but he escapes from the hospital with the help of a police officer.

Virat kidnaps the terrorist again and also forces corrupt police officer Ashok Gaikwad (Gireesh Sahedev) to commit suicide. He later discovers that a terrorist group has planned serial blasts in Mumbai to be executed in a couple of days with the help of 12 sleeper agents.Virat remembers that on the day when the bombs are going to be planted, there is a wedding where his team member Joel is tying the knot and all his Army officer friends are going to assemble. Along with his fellow Army officers and Mukund, Virat manages to track these bombers and kills them before they could trigger the bombs.When the leader of these sleeper cells (Freddy Daruwala) finds out about the team of officers involved in the failure of the terrorist attack, he goes to Joels house and kills his family and finds an album which has photos of team officers.

He targets one officers female relative from each team and kidnapes them. When Virat realizes the plan, he substitutes one of the girl to be kidnapped, with his younger sister Priti (Cherry Mardia). Using his pet dog Rocky and his sisters dupatta, he manages to reach the terrorists hideout. He eliminates all the terrorists and rescues all the victims including his sister, who was about to be killed after Virats bluff was exposed. Virat also captures Asif Ali (Dipendra Sharma), who was the leader of the group but later kills him on realizing that Asif is just the second-in-command of the sleeper cell.

When this attack fails, the terrorist leader decides to target Virat himself. He kills Kapil and his family, he being one of the army officers and forces Virat to surrender. Virat decides to sacrifice his life and plans a suicide attack by instructing Mukund and his fellow officers to follow him via a tracking chip inserted in his arm and plant a bomb at the terrorists hideout. Virat then drives to a port in various cars, as told by the leader and ends up on a ship full of terrorists. To his surprise, Virat finds out that the cars he was asked to drive had bombs in them, which will frame him and his team as terrorists and also boost their plans to recruit sleeper cells in Indian Army with the help of Joint Defense Secretary of India Mr.

Alvin Dsouza (Zakir Hussain), who is also a member of this terrorist group. Meanwhile, Joel, who was in touch with Mukund as instructed by Virat, plants a bomb at the base of the ship. Virat has a one-on-one fight with the leader and escapes on a boat before the ship explodes, also later killing the leader. The film ends with Virat forcing Alvin Dsouza to commit suicide and later returning to border along with his team.The movie has received positive reviews from the critics.

ABP News similarly rated it 4.5/5,calling it afast paced,exhilarating roller coaster ride Taran Adarsh gave 4/5 and states that it is a slick action-thriller that keeps you engrossed, enthralled and captivated all through, thanks to its fascinating premise and a watertight, razor-sharp screenplay.
The Times Of India gave the movie 3.5 rating describing it as This one applauds the jawans who live in the jaws of death, and is a wake up call for all the sleepers that abound. Bravo! Rachel Saltz of The New York Times stated that The action sequences mostly have tension and punch, even if the movie is old-school long 2 hours 41 minutes and the plot doesn't bear too much scrutiny.

The romantic angle of the movie was criticised. Hindustan Times praised the performance of Akshay Kumar. Filmfare critic praised the movie as, Genuinely smart action thriller .