| Director | Chandra Sekhar Yelati |
|---|---|
| Budget | ₹30 crore |
| Box office | ₹13.5 crore |
2003: A Pakistani archaeologist, Dr. M. Alam Siddiqui, after seeking permission from the Government of Pakistan, starts researching the hidden treasure of King Kanishka, whose treasure map is hidden in an old box whose key is a Garuda locket, which was last seen in the research books of David, a British archaeologist. His team, led by Siddiqui and Dilawar, searches hard for the key as they find the box in an old market in Pakistan. Fate takes a reverse turn as a dreaded terrorist named Sultan, along with his men, visits the archaeology department. Sultan coerces Siddiqui, takes the box away from him, and makes all the people his slaves until Siddiqui finds the treasure and hands it over to Sultan.
2013: In Hyderabad, Gautham Kumar Varma is a brave, money-greedy security guard who wants to make easy money and settle in life. His motto is that he would not take even a crore if it is not his, but would never let go of even a penny if it is his. Gautham spends his time testing his fortune by buying lottery tickets and using gadgets that bring luck, but sadly, both schemes are unsuccessful. His friends, who are four kids, live with him in the slum colony. Once they ask him to show a 1000 rupee note out of curiosity, to which Gautham agrees. The next day, the ATM's cash cartridge is being refilled, and Gautham asks the officials to show the kids a 1000-rupee note. They accept and show a note.
Meanwhile, a gang of thieves comes and robs the ATM. Gautham catches the criminals and hands over the money, but since the CCTV footage shows that Gautham's request was the reason for it, he is posted to a dumping yard, where he works for nearly 12 hours. The night when Gautham returns from his duty, heavy rain drenches the colony, and the roof of his room falls. From the roof, he finds a diary, an old empty bag printed "Pushkalavathi Jewelers, Peshawar", a Garuda locket, two magnifying lenses, and a small stone with a design. He opens the diary and starts reading, narrated by his grandfather Satyanarayana Varma. On the day of the India-Pakistan partition, activists were attacking rich men and robbing them.
After finding no place to hide, Satyanarayana Varma packs all his jewelry and diamonds and rushes to a cave rumored to be a king's escape runway. After reaching the spot, he rests somewhere, keeping his bag on the door of an inlet. A bag of diamonds falls into one of the birds attached, thus opening the inlet and making the bags enter the inner space. He tries hard to get it back, but removes the bird from there. He falls into an abyss but survives. There was a promissory note that 900 diamonds of his would be inherited by his grandson. Gautham sets out to Pakistan with the help of Sreenidhi, an ardent Hindu devotee who wishes to visit the Hinglaj Mata temple in Pakistan.
There, Gautham and Sreenidhi, along with Indian security contractor Khayamat Raju, reach the Hinglaj Mata Temple. There, Gautham finds his grandfather's name on a slab, and two dwellers inform him that archaeologists searched for this person. He goes to the archaeology department, where Thilavar is now in charge after the brutal murder of Siddiqui, shows the empty bag to them, and finds that the address would be in Peshawar. Meanwhile, Gautham sees the Garuda locket sketch on the research papers and shows them the locket. Thilavar offers him money, gold, and many things in return for the locket as per Sultan's orders. Gautham neither accepts taking any one nor all of them nor accepts giving away the locket, contrary to his motto. He escapes from them and, along with Sreenidhi and Khayamat Raju, goes away to a safe place.
Meanwhile, Sreenidhi is made prey to a Buzkashi game with a rule that the one who parks her in the goal would marry her. A masked Gautham joins them, and after stiff competition, he wins the match by parking her, thus making her fall for him. They move to Peshawar to a local hospital, where they join Khayamat Raju with fake injuries and rest there that night. The next morning, Gautham starts searching in the streets of Peshawar Markets for his grandfather's address, only to be kidnapped by terrorists. Then he is brought before Sultan, who asks Gautham to submit the Garuda locket. Gautham says that he would not give it to Sultan or anyone, as it is his. They torture him, trash him, and injure him severely, only to make him much more determined not to give it to Sultan.
Sultan orders Thilavar and his men to take him away to Peshawar and kill him. In transit, Gautham kills most of them, leaving Thilavar and three others, and escapes to Peshawar in a bus. He reaches the hospital, where he learns from Khayamat Raju that a girl kidnapped Sreenidhi and gave her an address to meet her. He goes to the address and frees Sreenidhi. He then ties up the kidnapper with a rope, only to learn that she is Siddiqui's daughter Zara, whose ambition is to hand over the treasure of Kanishka to the Pakistan Government as per her father's wish. Now, Gautham, Zara, and Sreenidhi learn that the box containing the map is in Sultan's house, where Gautham goes with Zara. There, Gautham breaks the power supply, kills a Jihadi, wears his dress, and finds the box.
However, the power is on now, and Thilavar takes Gautham to the living room, where Sultan and his men are waiting. They dress him with a bomb with a piston to activate it. They remove his mask and find out that it was Gautham, only to be threatened by him to leave him or else all would be destroyed along with the box. He reaches out, ties the piston with a wire, carefully removes the bomb from his back with the help of Zara, and both escape from there with the box. They use the Garuda locket and take the map, which indicates a place near Hinglaj Mata Temple. The trio reaches there, and according to the map, there were five wheels to be arranged in a particular order.