| Director | Aditya Suhas Jambhale |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Budget | ₹20 crore |
| Box office | ₹110.6 crore |
The film is divided into six chapters.
NIA officer Zooni Haskar poses as a manicurist to blackmail Sabia, the girlfriend of terrorist leader Burhan Wani into providing information about his whereabouts. Using it, she leads a successful operation with support from friend and CRPF officer Yash Chauhan to eliminate him without authorization from her superiors. This provides separatist leader Yakub Shiekh and his allies an opportunity to portray him as a martyr, and they launch agitation across the state, as well as replacing Wani with another terrorist leader, Zakir Naikoo. The worsening law and order situation causes Zooni to be reprimanded and transferred to New Delhi.
Rajeshwari Swaminathan, the Joint Secretary at the PMO (Prime Minister's Office) meets with Jagmohan Patil, former Governor of Kashmir, to discuss abrogating Article 370. She brings the NIA into Kashmir to stabilise the situation. Later, Zooni meets Salahuddin Jalal (based on Omar Abdullah) in Delhi. Jalal mentions Zooni's father, Kabir, a whistleblower, who was found dead. The Government of India was unable to investigate due to Article 370. Rajeshwari meets with Zooni, trying to convince her to go back to Kashmir. She accepts the offer under the condition that two more people can be on the team.
Zooni meets her team in Srinagar which includes Namita Chaturvedi, an Assistant Enforcement Officer for the ED, Gaurang Sengupta, a Financial Crime Consultant for the CBI, Ashish Mattoo, and her two requested members. Shamsher Abdali is identified as a primary suspect for the funding of a stone-pelting incident in Anantnag. They decide to investigate his dry fruit business, raiding his warehouse and killing his contractor. After hacking his phone call history, they identify Abdali, who is both an ISI agent and double agent working for Khawar, a former senior of Zooni. Zooni and the CRPF manage to secure Abdali. Jalal and Parveena Andrabi (loosely based on Mehbooba Mufti) try to form a coalition government and gain control of the Valley. However, the fax machine at the Indian ministry doesn't work, and the President's rule is imposed on Kashmir, foiling their plans. Tragedy strikes when Chauhan is killed in the 2019 Pulwama attack.
Grief-stricken and enraged, Zooni captures and interrogates Yakub Sheikh. He is chained to a chair and refuses to talk to her colleagues. Then she arrives and throws him out the window, (holding the chair) and threatening to drop it if he does not speak. Out of fear, he reveals that the mastermind of the bombing was Naikoo and she thus has Khawar removed from his position for, once again, unwittingly aiding the separatists. The government decides to work on abrogating Article 370 as Zooni recovers a vital document hidden in a Kashmir library, integral in removing it. She finds out that a sub-clause 'd' is removed due to historical reasons.
After Rajeshwari briefs the Prime Minister, Zooni's team studies the Constitution and searches for loopholes that will allow the government to enact this law. They make preparations for handling the numerous problems that can occur in the valley, as well as potential retaliation by Pakistan, neighboring countries and terrorist organizations. They also attempt the suppressing of all forms of social unrest that could be created, arresting all anti-Indian elements in the valley including Sheikh's fellow conspirators and separatist leaders as well as keeping the mission a secret from the media, whom they confuse with multiple fake stories, and even tricking the Pakistani military, something Khawar helps them with.
The PM works on passing the bill in the Rajya Sabha, where his party is in minority and faces challenges from the opposition party members, while maintaining that Kashmir is a part of India and they can remove the special status. Zooni and her team uncover Naikoo's plan to kill Jalal as a way to discredit the Indian Government and invite sanctions. As Gaurang poses as Jalal, they leave for a safe house in a convoy which is then attacked by Naikoo and his men, whom the CRPF forces engage with and defeat. The bill passes just as Zooni kills Naikoo, avenging Chauhan as Article 370 is abrogated.
The PM, Home Minister, Rajeshwari and the NIA team celebrate their victory and mourn those lost in the fight. Zooni finds peace as her father's case file is reopened for investigation. The end credits show real-life photos of the peace and progress that has since taken place in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370.