Batla House

<p>Sanjay Kumar is informed that his team has cornered 5 university students in L-18, , who might have been involved in the , the responsibility for which was claimed by the terrorist organization ” ” (IM). Sanjay orders not to engage until he arrives, but a relentless Krishan Kumar “K.K.” Singh, proceeds with some officers. Sanjay arrives and, upon hearing the gunshots, decides to engage. The building is cleared, and K.K. is found shot down. Sanjay enters the room, and there’s more shooting, as a result of which two students, Adil Ameen & Sadiq Khan, end up dead, and Tufail Khan is arrested alive. Dilshad Ahmed and Javed Ali escape and Sanjay now starts facing the heat from and , who start billing the as a fake one. They’re joined by the whole nation in condemning the , and everyone starts demanding justice for the students who were supposedly killed to account for the bombings. Sanjay’s wife, Nandita, a , is however unwilling to accept this and decides to stay with Sanjay, who soon becomes diagnosed with , frequently hallucinating about getting shot by the . She somehow stops him whenever he becomes . Sanjay now starts looking for the missing Dilshad and Javed and finds one of them to be hiding in . He is informed by the that he would be awarded for the encounter and that he must celebrate. Realizing he’s not been told where to celebrate, he heads to Nizampur, where he manages to find Dilshad. Everyone tries to stop Sanjay, who chases, beats up, and almost arrests Dilshad, only for him to be cornered by the politicians and the public who let him escape but without Dilshad. After being awarded the President Medal, Sanjay begins his hunt again and this time, through Dilshad’s girlfriend Victoria alias “Huma”, tricks him into coming to . He teams up with his officers once again and sends a van to pick up Dilshad, as a part of his plan. The latter, however, sends someone else to check for anything suspicious. Sanjay runs to stop his officers from engaging upon realizing Dilshad’s not in the van and lets it flee. Learning of nothing suspicious, Dilshad informs the van driver he’d depart the next day, and upon landing in Nepal, is stopped, thrashed, and arrested by Sanjay and his team. The court proceedings begin, where the opposing lawyer, Shailesh Arya, brings up arguments to counter Sanjay’s truth and a parallel story of fake encounters, as per which K.K. and his men brought the students in L-18 tortured, and decided to kill them when they were ordered not to do so, following which K.K. was shot by one of his officers. Sanjay, however, brings out the truth that actually, his officers had been closely watching the students and realized they belonged to the IM. The real shootout then plays out, showcasing K.K. and his team engaging during the students’ fire, and the very fact that K.K. died lends Sanjay’s argument strong support when he tells everyone that no officer has ever died in a fake encounter. His arguments convince the court to sentence the 2 terrorists to , while the last one somehow escapes the country. While sections of the media still oppose the ruling and believe the police to be culprits, a video clip that surfaced in 2016 featured a confession from the terrorist Javed who had escaped the encounter, about how he managed to do so and later join the ISIS, further confirming the credibility of the encounter. In May 2018, announced the film with , to be based on of 2008. The film was to be shot in Delhi, , , , and starting in September 2018 in a span of 50 days. and joined the cast of in November 2018. The film was in the second week of February in 2019. The film was released on 15 August 2019, coinciding with and clashing with ‘s . The songs are composed by , , and . Lyrics are written by Tanishk Bagchi, Gautam Sharma, Gurpreet Saini, and Prince Dubey. The first song, “O Saki Saki,” is a version of the song “of the same name” from the 2004 film . The song “O Saki Saki” was launched on 15 July 2019. “O Saki Saki” has become a trend as of June 2020 with users doing the dance, and had also become the namesake for a character in the Japanese manga and anime series . One of the songs, “Gallan Goriyan”, was removed from the film’s final cut and was instead released as a separate single due to thematic inconsistency at the time of the film’s release. The song, a recreated version of an eponymous original from the 2000 album , was released on 11 June 2020 by T-Series. The song tells the prequel of this movie. The film received mixed reviews from critics. gave the film 4.5 stars out of 5 and called it “one of the finest films of the year” while praising the performances of John Abraham and Ravi Kishan, the action sequences and the screenplay. gave it 3.5 stars out of 5 and felt that Abraham delivered “the best of his career” performance, while also praising the action sequences but criticizing the pacing of the second half. Prasanna D Zore writing for gave it 2 stars out of 5 and noted that only second half had gripping moments. earned a decent 14 crore nett in India on its opening day. It dropped 50 percent to earn 7.5 crore nett on the second day. On Saturday, the third day, the film’s business grew by 30 percent to 10 crore nett, for a three-day total of 31.5 crore nett. As of 5 September 2019 , with a gross of 102.61 crore in India and 10.77 crore overseas, the film has grossed 113.38 crore worldwide. was made available as on in October 2019.</p>