| Director | Ali Abbas Zafar |
|---|---|
| Genre | action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film |
| Runtime | 145 min |
| Country | India |
| Budget | ₹130 crore |
| Box office | ₹564.2 crore |
In 2017, almost five years after the events of Ek Tha Tiger, an American journalist is killed by the ISC, a terrorist organisation, in Iraq while attempting to report their recent activities to the CIA. During a rally in Ikrit, their leader, Abu Usman, is shot by the Iraqi Army and taken to the local hospital, which also serves as a training centre for Indian and Pakistani nurses. Usman orders an increased ISC presence around him for security, prompting the CIA to prepare an airstrike on the hospital. During this time, Maria, an Indian nurse, secretly calls the Indian Ambassador to Iraq and informs him that Indian and Pakistani nurses are being held hostage; the CIA tells RAW chief Shenoy that he has seven days to rescue the nurses before the airstrike is carried out.
Avinash Singh "Tiger" Rathore and Zoya Nazar, now married with a son, Junior, live in hiding in Innsbruck. Shenoy and Karan Rao, a RAW agent, locate Tiger and Zoya and inform them about the hostages. Despite his initial reluctance, Tiger accepts the mission after Zoya insists. Tiger travels to Syria with his select team of RAW agents: Azaan, an expert sniper; Namit, a bomb disposal expert; and a hacker named Rakesh. They travel to Iraq and pose as illegal migrant workers at an oil refinery run by Tohbaan, an Indian sympathiser of the ISC, and Amir Baghdawi, Usman's second-in-command. Tiger meets his handler, Pawan, in Ikrit to gather supplies, but they are forced to rescue Hassan, a child suicide bomber sent by Usman.
Pawan is shot by the ISC in the ensuing confrontation, and Tiger narrowly escapes following the unexpected arrival of Zoya. The couple decide that ISI and RAW should work together to save the nurses. Later that night, Tiger and his team set off a controlled explosion in the refinery and fake burn injuries so they can be taken to the hospital. Tiger learns that Tohbaan is actually Firdaus, an undercover RAW agent tasked by Shenoy with spying on Tiger and his team. Tiger and Zoya agree to launch simultaneous coordinated attacks against the ISC. Zoya goes undercover and is eventually recruited by Baghdawi, who keeps female slaves.
On the day of the airstrike, Zoya manages to kill Baghdawi. At the hospital, Rakesh poisons the food the migrant workers are tasked with cooking for the ISC. Tiger's team eventually succeeds in eliminating the majority of the ISC forces, but Azaan dies in the conflict. Tiger finds Zoya captured by Usman in the boiler room and surrenders. Tiger is initially tortured but later stabs Usman, who manages to escape, and attempts to free Zoya while the nurses are rescued by RAW and ISI. Firdaus eventually kills Usman as the hospital is destroyed in the American airstrike.
A year later, on 15 August, Shenoy receives a call from Tiger from Greece. Having adopted Hassan, Tiger informs him that his family has returned to hiding, knowing that RAW and ISI would not leave them in peace. However, Tiger assures Shenoy that he will always be there to serve his country.