Released : Mar 23, 2012
Genre : Action, Suspense, Thriller
Starcast : Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Ram Kapoor, Gulshan Grover, Prem Chopra
Desc :
The
story begins with a series of seemingly unconnected events, all over
the globe. In Uzbekistan, An Ex-KGB Officer is tortured and murdered. In
Cape Town, A group of international business tycoons discuss a rumour
that the dead KGB Officer had a nuclear suitcase bomb hidden away. In
Moscow, An Indian secret agent is exposed. the agent is shot dead while
trying to send a Code Red Message to India. In India, the head of RAW
sees the incomplete message. All it contains is a number - 242. Enter
Agent Vinod. Vinod (Saif Ali Khan) is the kind of agent who first kicks
the door open and then finds out what`s behind it. Vinod is sent to
Moscow to investigate why his colleague was killed. Vinod finds out that
a Russian money launderer, Abu Nazar has sent $ 50 Million to a contact
in Morocco, for an operation against India. Vinod leaves for Morocco,
where he meets an elderly Mafiosi Kazan and the beautiful but mysterious
Dr Ruby. A series of twists and turns take Vinod across the globe from
Marakkesh to Riga, Karachi to Delhi and finally London, where he
discovers the ultimate conspiracy. Agent Vinod - you may not agree with
his methods, but you sure are glad he`s on your side. Agent Vinod - Your
passport to action and adventure.
Duration : 2:32
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 (Ram Kapoor). 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 assassin 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. Iram realizes that David Kazan had set the
password to the detonator and asks Vinod to try the name of Kazan's
camel. The bomb is defused but Iram 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 and starting a nuclear war in sub-continent for
geo-political reasons. Metla mocks Vinod, telling him world affairs are
too complex for 'lowly police officers' to understand. However, Vinod is
wearing a wire, and London cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba are listening in. Realizing that they have been manipulated by Metla into almost starting a war with India,
and has been badly damaged in the process as the Pakistan government is
now violently cracking down on them, the Lashkar sends a suicide bomber
(Arif Zakaria) to assassinate Metla at a function in his honor. Metla is killed, but posthumously feted as a great philanthropist.
On a beach in Cape Town, the beautiful Russian girl who first
acquired the nuclear device, is seen sunbathing. She looks up to find
Agent Vinod smiling at her. It is apparent Vinod has moved on to his
next mission.
Cast
- Saif Ali Khan as Agent Vinod
- Kareena Kapoor as Iram Parveen Bilal/Ruby Mendes
- Ravi Kishan as Major Rajan
- Prem Chopra as David Kazaan
- Ram Kapoor as Abu Sayed Nazer
- B. P. Singh as RAW Chief Hasan Nawaz
- Shahbaz Khan as Colonel Huzefa Lokha
- Gulshan Grover as Tehmur Pasha
- Adil Hussain as Colonel
- Maryam Zakaria as Farah Faqesh special appearance in song "Dil Mera Muft Ka"
- Mallika Haydon as a special appearance in song "I'll Do the Talking" & "Pyaar Ki Pungi"
- Dhritiman Chaterji as Sir Jagadishwar Metla
- Rajat Kapoor as ISI Chief Iftekhar Ahmed
- Anshuman Ajai Singh as Jimmy
- Arif Zakaria as the Lashkar Suicide Bomber
- Lee-Ann Roberts as the Moscow contact
- Vasilisa Petina as the Mysterious Girl
Production
According to Raghavan, Agent Vinod is not a remake of the 1977 action film of the same name.[5] In an interview with Bollywood Hungama, he described it as "a realistic film [...with] full of action pieces, thrills and characters."[5] On 30 May 2010, the director reported that the film's shoot had official begun in Mumbai. Filming later continued in Morocco[6] and Latvia.[7]
Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack has been composed by Pritam. The track "Steal the Night (I'll Do the Talking)" is a partial interpolation of the 1978 song "Rasputin", composed by German disco group Boney M.[8] According to IBN live, Raabta is the "most beautiful song" of the film.[9]
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