By Rishabh Baid(17 Apr 2012)
In the Dasht-E-Margoh desert in remote Afghanistan , inside a Taliban camp, an ISI official, Col. Huzefa ( Shahbaz Khan), is interrogating a captured man (Saif Ali Khan ) suspected to be a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), agent. The man offers up
details about RAW's
operations in Afghanistan in
exchange for money and
safe passage across the
border. He betrays his colleague, Major Rajan ( Ravi Kissen), who has also infiltrated the camp. This is
only a ruse, as both
overpower their captors and
fight their way out of the
camp. Along the way, they
rescue a girl called Farah (Maryam Zakaria ). The man is actually a RAW agent and his
nom-de-guerre is Agent
Vinod. In New Delhi , Agent Vinod enters RAW headquarters to
meet his boss Hassan Nawaz
(B. P. Singh). Nawaz shows him Major Rajan's final
message from Russia. Just as
he completes his message,
Rajan is killed by a man who
has a scorpion tattoo on his forearm. Nawaz asks Vinod
to find out what '242'
actually is. Vinod travels to Moscow, and enters a nightclub owned by Abu
Nazer. He manages to capture
and interrogate Nazer, who
tells him a man called Freddie
Khambatta is to smuggle the
million to Morocco. Vinod is almost captured by Nazer's
men, but manages to escape,
killing Nazer in the process. Vinod boards a flight to
Marakkesh, Morocco. Freddie
Khambatta turns out to be
the flight steward. Vinod
picks him up from the
airport, only to assume his place. As Freddie, Vinod
meets local mafia boss David Kazan (Prem Chopra). Kazan is accompanied by his
personal Pakistani doctor, Ruby Mendes ( Kareena Kapoor). Kazan suspects Vinod, and gets Ruby to
administer him a truth serum. Vinod blurts out that he is a RAW agent and killed
Abu Nazer. Kazan confronts
Vinod when he regains
consciousness, but Vinod
manages to convince him he
is Freddie Khambatta, and explains he had to kill Abu
Nazer to protect the mission.
He manages to clone Kazan's
phone and finds out that a
MI6 agent is reaching
Morocco the next day. In the meantime, Vinod gets
closer to Ruby, and tries to
find out what '242' is. Ruby
is actually Iram, a British-
Pakistani who is working
undercover for the ISI. Vinod goes to meet the MI6
agent and finds him
murdered in his room with
strong pointers that the
murder was committed by
Ruby. He gets an invitation card from the murdered
agent's room for a private
auction. He learns that many
international terrorist groups
are converging on an
antiques auction in Marakkesh to purchase '242'.
Vinod brings Ruby to the
auction, where Kazan is also
present along with
Jagadishwar Metla
(Dhritiman Chatterji). Vinod spots an LTTE agent he had
encountered previously, and
from him, learns that '242' is
actually the detonator for
the nuclear device, disguised
as an antique volume of Omar Khayyam 's 'Rubaiyyat'. A bidding war
ensues, and Kazan manages
to secure the detonator. In Chaman, Baluchistan, the
head of the ISI is murdered
by Col. Huzefa, who is
actually part of a group of
rogue ISI colonels who are
planning an attack on India. In Morocco, Kazan locks the
detonator with a password,
and hands it over to Colonel
(Adil Hussain), who has
arrived in Morocco. Ruby/ Iram stumbles into the real
Freddie Khambatta, and finds
out Vinod is a RAW agent.
Managing to escape from
men trying to kill them,
both agree to work together to prevent the nuclear device
from falling into the wrong
hands. Ruby returns to
Kazan's estate only to find
out that the estate has been
ransacked and Kazan has been shot dead by 'Colonel'.
'Colonel' captures Ruby and
asks her to reveal the
whereabouts of Agent
Vinod. He plants a sniper
next to the hotel where Agent Vinod is to
rendezvous with Ruby. The
sniper takes a shot at him
but Vinod manages to escape
and is admitted to a hospital.
The assasin reaches the hospital in the guise of a
doctor and tries to
administer a venom injection
to Vinod. Vinod spots the
scorpion tattoo on the
doctor's forearm and overpowers him, killing him.
He then clears his way out of
the hospital to find Iram. 'Colonel' who is now in
possession of the detonator,
has reached Latvia to acquire the bomb. He enlists Iram to
seduce an airport security
employee to get his ID card
so that the nuclear bomb can
be transported out of Latvia.
Iram succeeds in doing so, and 'Colonel' provides the ID
card to his man, who is to
transport the bomb out of
Latvia. Colonel also sets up a
rigged bomb so that both
the airport employee and Iram die in the blast. Vinod
arrives and as he
interrogates Iram, the blast
occurs, giving Iram the
realization that she was
being set up to be killed by the Colonel. Vinod and Iram join hands
and try to capture the
Colonel and the bomb. Iram
tells Vinod that the Colonel
has called for a meeting at
Karachi with fugitive don Pasha who can also be in the
plot. The Colonel gets the
Rubaiyat and tells his men to
kill Vinod and Iram.
However, Vinod manages to
kill them all. Iram and Vinod reach Karachi, where they meet the rescued girl Farah,
who is a dancer. With her
help, they enter the wedding
attended by an Indian mafia
don (Gulshan Grover ). There, they learn that Col. Huzefa
and the don have agreed to
smuggle the nuclear device
from Karachi into India via
the sea route. However, they
are captured by Col. Huzefa, from whom they learn the
target of the bomb is New Delhi. They manage to escape, and make it to New
Delhi, where they try to find
the location of the bomb.
They find that the Colonel is
staying with an ISI/Lashkar
agent, who is an old professor. Iram finds the
professor's map, which is of
the bus route that Jimmy is
taking with the armed
bomb. Iram hurriess to the
exhibition where Colonel is
hiding as a pilot in disguise.
Iram runs into 'Colonel', and
is shot, but points him out to
Indian security forces, who kill him. Eventually, Vinod
tracks down the bomb and
takes the bomb up in a
helicopter to detonate it as
far away from the city as
possible. The dying Iram, who realizes that David
Kazan had set the password
to the detonator, asks Vinod
to try the name of Kazan's
camel. The bomb is defused,
Iram apparently dies of gunshot wounds. Later
Vinod sees a recording,
showing Metla planning the
attack. Vinod accuses Metla
and the Zeus group for
murdering millions for making money at the global
stock exchanges. Metla
mocks Vinod