Bilal Khawaja [Anupam Kher] is the Asian Olympics Games Chairman, a position that soon gets tangled in a high-stakes murder case. He is accused of killing CBI inspector Avinash Tripathi, the officer who was quietly investigating Bilal for corruption linked to the upcoming games. Avinash was shot in the chest and then forced into the path of an oncoming car, a calculated sequence that left him dead at the scene. The accusation seeds a dangerous scramble of blame, cover-ups, and shifting loyalties that will pull in journalists, politicians, and a city’s media apparatus.
Sherry [Mandira Bedi], Bilal’s public-relations mastermind, scrambles to salvage Bilal’s image as the murder case heats up. She leaks a version of events that paints Avinash’s death as a tragic road accident, gambling on a police postmortem to confirm the narrative. Her strategy relies on timing and media chatter, trying to steer every broadcast and editorial line toward a “clean” ending for Bilal. Yet the newsroom climate is volatile, and editors push back against a one-sided story, forcing Sherry to navigate a maze of competing agendas.
Bhanwar Singh Kilol [Vijay Raaz], the iron-fisted Opposition leader, sees a rare opportunity to drag Bilal into deeper trouble. Kilol’s henchmen have already claimed responsibility for the Avinash attack, aiming to ruin Bilal’s credibility. Kilol grows furious as media channels begin to echo the “road accident” account, and he hatches plans to seize control of the narrative and the power that comes with it. The looming postmortem report becomes a pressure point, and Kilol hopes to force Bilal into retreat.
A crucial turn arrives when the press confirms that the postmortem, set to declare Avinash’s death an accident, could cripple Bilal’s grip on the games. Amid this, two investigative journalists and roommates, Prantabh Pratab aka P.P. [Pulkit Samrat] and Anand Ishwaram Devdutt Subramaniyam aka AIDS [Bilal Amrohi], chase a bigger scoop. AIDS, famously the ladies’ man, uses his charm and street-smart instincts to push their stories into the glare of television TRPs. Their work is restless and roguish, often skirting the edge of ethics in their hunt for a headline.
Monsoon [Sarah-Jane Dias], their tough boss, frowns at their latest Adrak Ganesh story—a humorous misstep that has not aged well on air—and tasks them with unearthing a juicier scandal that can skyrocket her ratings. PP has a crush on Monsoon, but his fear of rejection keeps the confession at bay, creating a classic tension that plays out against the backdrop of Delhi’s power politics. The newsroom’s tempo quickens as the chase for a bigger story intensifies, pulling in more players and exposing the fragility of truth under pressure.
Chaddha (a contractor) is a familiar intermediary in the power-play, already claiming a profitable contract for the Asian Olympics supply chain by bribing a government bureaucrat. The scheming web widens as Kilol engineers a plan to steal Avinash’s body from the morgue to bolster his argument against Bilal’s integrity, inflaming the police chase and turning the investigation into a spectacle.
As Bilal closes in on his rivals, he discovers the plan to steal the body is underway and makes a bold move: he arranges a cremation for Avinash with national honors, substituting the corpse with a stand-in to send a message of ritual legitimacy while keeping the real evidence out of sight. A contractor named Nata helps Bilal fund this act in exchange for future contracts, weaving a financial thread through the political drama.
The cremation plan triggers a chain of twists. The channels race to air the news, PP & AIDS believe they have Avinash’s body, and Monsoon urges them to bring it to the office where the body disappears from the underground parking. Monsoon fires PP & AIDS in a calculated move, but she soon reveals a double game: she has aligned with Bilal and sold the body to him, leaving PP & AIDS in the dark about the real deal.
A dramatic footbridge, funded to symbolize progress, collapses while Bilal’s network watches and PP & AIDS broadcast live from the scene. The incident spawns a flood of speculative theories about the collapse—sonic booms, improvised safety, or a missing screw—and the public narrative grows murky. PP & AIDS discover that the body had been concealed inside the bridge itself, and they race to retrieve it from the accident site.
Their pursuit leads them through a seedy motel where Kilol is caught in a compromising moment with a colleague, a development they secretly film. AIDS hides Avinash’s CD in the coat pocket, turning a physical relic into a weapon of leverage. Two intoxicated police officers later take Avinash’s body from PP & AIDS, but they unexpectedly deliver it back to Bilal, who finds a critical CD on Avinash that can shut down Kilol’s accusations.
Sherry crafts a new contingency plan, stealing the evidence CD from Bilal and diverting it toward Kilol through an IAS officer who resents Bilal’s bribe-sharing network. The officer’s misdirection results in the wrong CD landing with PP, while a hymns-only CD meant for PP ends up with Kilol. Kilol realizes the mix-up, and the IAS officer reveals that the sex CD resides with PP, igniting a fresh wave of scandal and power plays.
Meanwhile, Monsoon, still playing both sides, calls PP to deliver the CD to the office, while PP hands over the wrong disc. In a tense moment, the correct CD—containing a recorded conversation between Sherry and Monsoon—emerges, exposing their joint scheme to orchestrate corruption around the Commonwealth Games. Kilol’s enforcers strike the car, but PP & AIDS escape, and soon they are surrounded by Bilal, Kilol, Sherry, Monsoon, and their factions.
Relying on a live broadcast from a mobile van, PP turns the tables and compels Bilal, Kilol, Sherry, and Monsoon to reveal the entire conspiracy on air. The police intervene, arrests are made, and PP & AIDS are vindicated, their risky journalism vindicated by a public exposure of corruption and manipulation at the highest levels. The film closes on a note that media power and political ambition can collide—and collide hard—when truth, technology, and tawdry ambition converge in the glare of the spotlight. Lulia Vantur has a cameo, adding another layer to the film’s undercurrent of celebrity and spectacle, while Sara Loren appears as herself in a brief moment that punctuates the movie’s satirical take on show business and public image. The film also features a cameo by Salman Khan in a dance moment that underscores the movie’s flashy, larger-than-life sensibility.
