Niranjan Iyer, a skilled hacker, secretly strikes a deal for confidential information worth ₹10 crore (US$1.2 million) with an unseen buyer. Once the deal is confirmed, someone closes in on him, but Niranjan manages a narrow escape through quick thinking and timing.
Pullela Chandrasekhar, an ACP of the NIA, and his wife Swathi, Pooja Kumar, seek out a divorce lawyer as their strained marriage comes under pressure. Swathi accuses Shekhar of prioritizing his dangerous work over family life, a charge that weighs heavily on both of them. After a tense confrontation, Shekhar returns to his office only to be involved in a car crash, an incident that leaves him shaken. In the wreckage, he discovers a rare high-range gun in the other vehicle, and the owner of that car escapes by firing at Shekhar.
Driven by a sense of duty, Shekhar resolves to arrest the car’s owner and orders his team to pull CCTV footage from traffic signals to identify him. The trail leads to the infamous assassin [Yakub Ali], Shatru, a figure with a reputation for deadly precision. Interrogations yield little, so the team plans to bring Ali to court, but the suspect dies during transport. Before he dies, his phone flashes three coded messages, which Shekhar cracks to reveal a grim picture: a bomb hidden in Charminar, set to explode at 8:00 AM in just a few hours. The investigation also uncovers a political subplot, as the opposition leader Pratap Reddy is preparing to rally against the current government, raising the stakes of the impending blast.
The bomb is found lodged in an underpass. The bomb squad identifies it as remote-controlled, and the remote must be used in close proximity to detonate. With no obvious lead on the remote, Shekhar corners a suspicious man, who then points to a white van operated by terrorists. A gun battle ensues, and the man who directed the attack is killed, but Niranjan remains in the crowd, forcing Shekhar to pursue and finally arrest him. In custody, Niranjan wins a dangerous bargaining chip: the drive containing the sensitive information is sold for ₹25 crore (US$3.0 million) to Reddy’s secretary. After the arrest, a government directive orders Shekhar to transfer Niranjan to Nagpur.
En route, a gang ambushes the convoy, forcing their van off the road and into a river. Shekhar saves Niranjan and takes to the forest to regroup. It’s there that Niranjan divulges a startling revelation: the success of India’s Pokhran test in 1998 had prompted a plan to safeguard uranium reserves for future use. The head of the Atomic Department of India, Dr. Rajasekhar, had hired four hackers—including Niranjan and Vishal—to swap current uranium reserve photos with older ones so satellites wouldn’t reveal the wealth. The scheme reaches further into the DAE’s satellites, with the goal of concealing uranium smugglers’ tracks.
Vishal’s betrayal adds another layer of danger when he blackmails the DAE head for ₹10 crore (US$1.2 million) and is killed in the ensuing fallout. Niranjan seizes the drive and delivers it to Reddy’s secretary, but Reddy plays a double game, striking a separate deal with the MLA. As the conspiracy unravels, Shekhar eliminates the mercenaries sent to finish them and closes in on the principal suspect, George, played by Kishore.
The pair head to a remote server ship to retrieve the damning data from a DAE server. They are captured and left tied up, with explosives rigged to their ship. Exploiting a flaw, Shekhar and Niranjan escape, and in a dramatic turn, detonate the plan by redirecting leaking high-pressure steam to strike George’s ship, killing him and the remaining smugglers. In the wake of these events, the MLA and numerous other corrupt officers are exposed and arrested, bringing a hard-won sense of justice to a case thick with political and criminal intrigue.
