| Director | Eric Bogosian, Imtiaz Ali |
|---|---|
| Genre | drama film, romance film |
| Runtime | 133 min |
| Country | India |
| Budget | ₹25 crore |
| Box office | ₹47.7 crore |
Veera Tripathi is the sheltered daughter of Manik Kumar Tripathi, a rich Delhi-based business tycoon. One day before her wedding, she goes on a drive with Vinay, her fiancé whom she does not love, and is abducted from a petrol station off a highway while Vinay sits in the car convulsed with fear. The abductors start to panic when they find out her father has links to the government. However, Mahabir Bhati, one of the assertive abductors, is willing to do whatever it takes to see it through.
The men continuously move Veera through different cities to avoid being tracked by police. Initially, Mahabir wants to get ransom for Veera and then sell her off to a brothel. Eventually, when the police forcefully search the truck, Veera hides, much to her own surprise. She concludes she loves the journey and does not want to return to her family. As the days pass, Veera finds peace and newfound freedom, confusing and frustrating Mahabir. Veera becomes comfortable with her captors and even confides in Mahabir that she was sexually abused by her uncle as a nine-year-old multiple times. She views the abduction as a blessing in disguise since she finally has the chance to experience life and find herself. Yet Mahabir, avoiding his feelings, is persistent to shove Veera into prostitution after receiving ransom. Slowly, she unravels Mahabir's story and learns his father continually abused both him when he was a young child and his mother, who was used as a sex slave by rich landlords. Mahabir escaped and never returned.
Mahabir slowly lets down his guard and begins to care for Veera, and his anger fades away. He tries to leave her at a police station in a small mountainous town they stop by. However, Veera refuses and insists on staying with Mahabir. They travel together, and he starts to fall in love with her. They stay in a hilltop house and Veera reveals having a small home in the mountains was one of her many dreams. Mahabir becomes emotional seeing how Veera cares for him, reminding him of his mother. Both sleep peacefully that night, free from their respective haunting pasts. The next morning, the police arrive and shoot Mahabir, to which Veera reacts strongly. It is later revealed Mahabir had died on the spot.
Veera is later brought back to her parents' house, where she recovers from the emotionally draining experience while surrounded by her family members, including Vinay. Finally gaining strength, she confronts her uncle, who molested her as a child, in front of her family. She yells and breaks down as she asks her father why he warned her about dangers posed by outsiders while the real threat was from insiders, the people who had surrounded her since childhood. She leaves the house and goes to live in the mountains, where she starts her own factory and buys her own house. Feeling content, she closes her eyes and envisions her nine-year-old self playing happily on the hillside with a young Mahabir, making peace with the man she loved and their mutual childhood forms.