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<p>A temporary task force headed by Feroz Ali Khan is formed in response to the in , the job being to find and eliminate terrorists planning attacks in India. While attempting to rescue a fellow secret agent in , Ajay Singh Rajput captures a former colleague-turned-traitor, Jamaal. Frightened, Ajay threatens to have his family killed unless provides the information about a terror attack plan. Jamaal tells Ajay about a plot to carry out a bomb blast in a Delhi , which Ajay is able to prevent with help from Jai. Jamaal then taunts Ajay saying that this was only the first of a series of massive attacks that the terrorists had planned and commits suicide. -based terrorist mastermind, Maulana Mohammed Abdul Rehman, is causing trouble near the . He plans an escape plan for Bilal Khan, a dangerous terrorist lodged in a prison in Mumbai. For this purpose, Bilal assigns another terrorist Javed Ali Khan who arrives in Mumbai via . Soon after, Bilal escapes from police custody and flees the country. The Indian agencies are alerted to Javed’s arrival and a team of , led by Ajay, is dispatched to interrogate Taufiq, an agent posing as a local Muslim leader. Ajay manages to get information on Javed after torturing Taufiq and raids Javed’s hideout. However, things go haywire when all the officers except Ajay get killed along with Javed after the latter triggers a suicide explosion. The agency is able to retrieve the remains of Javed’s laptop and find a name from the : Wasim Sheikh, a planner for the terrorist groups, living in under the name of Abdul Haq. Ajay and Shabana Khan travel to Nepal pretending to be a married couple. Their plan to capture Wasim goes awry when he finds out that Shabana is a . However, Shabana fights with him and knocks him unconscious and the duo bring Wasim back to India. Afraid of the torture that he might face, Wasim reveals all the information that the agency wants. He tells them that Bilal is in in and will travel to to launch a lethal attack on numerous locations in India. Feroz sends Ajay, Jai and frequent collaborator Om Prakash Shukla, an expert hacker, to meet their deep asset, Ashfaq, in Al-Dera. Bilal is holding meetings in Al-Dera to discuss the funding and execution of the terrorist attacks. With Shukla’s help, Ajay and Jai break into Bilal’s room and kill him. As they are about to return, they find that Maulana is also present at the suite. Jai knocks him out. They decide to bring him back to India, under the pretext that he is Ashfaq’s uncle who needs to visit India for an urgent . They manage to get a visa from the local authorities for Maulana (being shown as Ashfaq’s ill uncle), but the hotel security discovers Bilal’s corpse. Hani Mohammad starts investigating Bilal’s death. He quickly identifies Ajay and his team as Indian agents. Maulana regains consciousness and suddenly attacks and wounds Ajay, who manages to subdue him. Meanwhile, Ajay and his team then board the plane, but Hani contacts the ATC and asks them to stop the aircraft. However, when he sees a newspaper that reveals that Maulana and Bilal are wanted terrorists with an international bounty on their heads, he smiles and lets the plane take off without any further hindrance. A voice-over by Feroz reveals that Maulana was brought to India, but his capture was kept a secret. After 6 weeks of rigorous interrogation, when Maulana had nothing substantial left to contribute, he was handed over to the and taken to , where he was given the same treatment by the army as given to (implying that he was eliminated). The trial run is successful, and the temporary task force is given permanent status where the agents celebrate their victory. was produced under along with Crouching Tiger, Friday Filmworks and Cape of Good Films. The filming began on 4 September 2014, in , . Some filming was done in , at Meditation Hall, Shanti Sarover and Library, at Greater Noida. The second part was shot in and the team completed their final schedule in in October. Some parts were also shot in . was hired to play the role of the Saudi doctor. The songs for the film features songs composed by and . Lyrics were written by Manoj Muntashir. The was composed by . All lyrics are written by . was released on 23 January 2015. received positive reviews from critics who praised Kumar’s performance, action sequences, direction and screenwriting. gave the film 4.5 stars out of 5 and stated,” is one helluva roller-coaster ride. Miss it at your own risk.” Sarita A Tanwar of gave the movie 4 stars, describing Akshay Kumar’s performance in the movie as his career-best. Anuj Kumar of summarized the film as “A gripping espionage thriller that eschews drama and jingoism”. Srijana Mitra Das of also gave it 4 stars out of 5 and said, “Akshay Kumar is terrific as Ajay whose core of steel you can almost feel”. gave the movie 4 stars out of 5 too, calling the film “sleek, well-timed and engaging.” Yahoo Movies gave the film 4 stars and wrote, “The film deals with a definite conflict, backs it up with a coherent plot trajectory and delivers a compelling resolution.” gave the film 3.5 stars and stating that the movie will make the viewers forget Akshay’s cinematic misdemeanours. gave the film 3 stars, hailing its action sequences and performance of the cast. Shubhra Gupta of gave the film 2 stars. However, Gupta praised Akshay Kumar’s performance. Devesh Sharma of praised the breathtaking action of the movie and gave it 3 stars. Ritika Handoo of hailed the movie as an entertaining movie which is a must-watch. Saibal Chatterjee of gave the movie two stars calling the movie as politically dodgy in spite of being a smartly-packaged, competently shot espionage thriller. Shubha Shetty-Saha of gave the movie 4 stars, calling it a must-watch movie. Mihir Fadnavis of didn’t give positive reviews to the plot but praised the movie as entertaining and fast-paced. Mayank Shekhar of gave 3 stars and wrote that the film manages to hold viewers attention. Abhishek Gupta of said the film is “fast-paced and entertaining” and that it “goads by making a point that while America executed their plan to kill the 9/11 mastermind in Abbottabad, here, our politicians could just make loud promises ” about the 26/11 attacks. praised the “exceptional” cinematography; the “extremely gripping” storyline, which makes appropriate use of the actors; the score, which “instills the necessary emotions”; and Kumar’s performance. It concluded, “On the whole, is one of the finest films ever made in the history of Indian cinema” and gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars. R. M. Vijayakar of gave 3.5 ratings calling it “that near-perfect textbook espionage thriller we have been dying to see: straight and business-like, fast-paced, without frills, and immaculately detailed to the point of occasional verbosity” was banned in by the censor boards in Islamabad and Karachi, which said that “it portrays a negative image of Muslims and the negative characters in the film also have Muslim names”. estimated the opening day at (US$1.1 million). said the film had “tremendous growth” over the weekend and that its first weekend total was (US$4.3 million). A prequel titled was released on 31 March 2017. The film features as Shabana Khan in the lead and in an extended cameo role. is planning four more spin-offs based on different characters from the film. , an official game based on this film has been released by , for Android mobile phone users.</p>