The plot opens in
Jaffna, Sri Lanka, where a bus full of
Tamil passengers is stopped by armed
Sinhalese men and all are massacred. A man in
Kasauli, revealed to be Vikram Singh sees on TV that the Sri Lankan President has been killed by a suicide bomber. In a nearby church he confesses to Priest, "Our Prime Minister could have been saved from the conspiracy." and Vikram starts narrating his story to the priest. The film then moves five years back, where clashes between the
Sri Lankan Government Forces and
Tamil militant groups had reached a dangerous level. The Tamil youth have taken weapons and joined the Liberation Tamil Front (LTF) leader Anna ("Elder Brother" in
Tamil) Bhaskaran (a character based on the real-life
LTTE leader
Velupillai Prabhakaran). The Indian Prime Minister (Sanjay Gurubaxani) decides to sign a peace accord with the Sri Lankan Government. However, Anna refuses to accept the accord, and the
Indian Peacekeeping Forces are forced to withdraw from the island. Robin Dutt, aka RD, the R&AW chief, calls upon his best man, Maj. Vikram Singh. After meeting and discussing the strategy with RD and his deputy Swaroop (Avijit Dutt), Vikram travels to Sri Lanka and meets a war correspondent, Jaya Sahni. After reporting to his senior Balakrishnan (based on real-life person K V Unnikrishnan), he tries to find someone who may help to find Shri, the only man who can withstand and oppose Anna. Vikram manages to visit Shri and promises Shri to help him rise against Anna by providing him with arms. However, the deal goes terribly wrong, and one of Vikram's associates is killed in a surprise attack by LTF, who do away with the weapons consignment. Meanwhile, Vikram is kidnapped by LTF. The Indian government sends forces and rescues Vikram. Balakrishnan tells him to leave Sri Lanka as he is on the hit list of both camps. Vikram feels suspicious about Balakrishnan. He calls SP, one of his associates, and tells him to report all activities of Balakrishnan. Vikram, posing as a war correspondent, meets Mallayya (based on real-life LTTE member
Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja), second-in-command of Anna, and persuades him to meet RD in Colombo. RD instigates Mallaya to stand up as the only champion of his people, thus dividing the LTF in two. The
Indian military then launches a massive attack on the LTF base camp, However, Anna survives and later kills Malaya and Shri. In the light of the resurfaced violence, the Indian Prime Minister resigns. Some months later, SP later tracks some discussion of Anna over the phone and tells Balakrishnan about this, but Bala tells him to ignore them, causing SP to believe that Balakrishnan might be a mole. He escapes with the intercepts and files of the case. Vikram receives a call from SP, who tells him to meet him. After meeting with SP, Vikram comes home to find Ruby, his wife, murdered. Vikram nabs Vasu from a theatre and asks him what he knows. Vasu tells him that indeed Balakrishnan was a leak, and he was helping him and Reed. Vikram calls Jaya and requests for help from her sources. As told by Jaya, Vikram reaches
Bangkok, where a source of Jaya (Dibang) tells him that he has a tape. Vikram is shocked to see that Balakrishnan was honeytrapped, forcing him to divulge all the information about their movements. Balakrishnan later commits suicide by shooting himself. Back in Delhi, RAW had decoded the intercepts realizes that this might be a Code Red to assassinate the ex-Prime Minister. A massive manhunt begins, and hundreds of LTF associates are nabbed by Indian security forces and local cops. In the Madras R&AW tracks down the conversation of Vijayan Joseph, a bombmaker, and Anna. Vikram finds that Kannan Kanan, an associate of Anna's man Kanda, is in Madurai Jail and might be helpful. Kannan reveals that some suspicious refugees came from the island to Tamil Nadu. After a short meeting with Jaya, Vikram sees X on a clock at the airport and deduces that the LTF is going to assassinate the ex-PM on the same day at X PM (10 PM). RD then calls the ex-PM to cancel his rally, but he replies that he'll be alright. Vikram then manages to catch Vijayan joseph from his hideout, who tells him that the refugees are going to assassinate the ex-PM with plastic explosives, which are untraceable by metal detectors. Vikram rushes to the place where the ex-PM is taking part in the rally, but the suicide bomber manages to put the wreath on the neck of the ex-PM, and while bowing down, she pulls the trigger and kills him along with herself and many others. Vikram feels dejected and defeated. Later, Vikram submits his report on the assassination to the investigation committee. A few days later, RD too resigns, and Vikram, after taking voluntary retirement, comes to Kasauli. The film comes back to the present, where the priest asks Vikram who won the battle. Vikram says he doesn't know, but in this battle, the Indians lost their Prime Minister, and the Sri Lankans lost their future. He later walks away, reciting the lines, "
Where the mind is without fear." He completes another report and sends it to Jaya in
London, who starts her work on that report; In Kasauli, Vikram is seen coming out of the house he was living in. The end credits reveal that many Sri Lankan Tamils remain displaced abroad till this date. ==Cast==