16 December (2002)

16 December
DirectorMani Shankar

Plot

Vikram, Sheeba and Victor are Indian Revenue Service officers belonging to the Department of Revenue Intelligence and have been removed from service, owing to their killing of a corrupt senior officer. They are hired back by their chief Vir Vijay Singh to investigate a series of large money launderings. Through the use of modern technology, they discover that the money is being transferred to a Swiss Bank account. One of their agents tracks down MP Shyam Manohar Kalia, from whose account the money is being transferred. Before the MP can reveal any name, his account is hacked, and all his money is transferred, seeing which the MP dies of heart failure.

The team travels to New Zealand, where Vikram honey-traps a Swiss Bank employee Sonal Joshi to find the details of the transactions. They come to know that the money has been transferred to an international terrorist organization named Kaala Khanjar. This organization has sold a Russian-made nuclear bomb to Pakistani army general turned terrorist, Dost Khan.

Dost Khan orchestrates an attack on Vir Vijay Singh through his subordinate Mir Zafar's men. However, Vir Vijay Singh is saved, and one of the attackers is caught. On interrogating him, the group learns that the bomb has already reached Delhi, and that Dost Khan plans to explode the bomb on 16 December, the same day on which Pakistan surrendered unconditionally to India during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

By taking help from the innumerable number of beggars in the city and by using advanced radiation sensors, the exact location of the bomb is revealed. Vir Vijay Singh's men secretly kill all the terrorists guarding the bomb. However, Dost Khan is alerted, and he sets the bomb to explode. It can be diffused only by the code "Dulhan Ki Vidaai Ka Waqt Badalna Hai" exclusively in Dost Khan's voice. The group synthesizes this code by joining bits and fragments of Dost Khan's speech. Ultimately, the bomb is diffused and Dost Khan is arrested. The film ends on the note that this is only the beginning, and there is still a long way to go in the fight against terrorism.

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