- Reassigned from TV to radio, a frustrated anchor sees both danger and opportunity when he receives threatening calls on the air.
- Arjun Pathak once a prime time news anchor for TRTV go demoted from his position due to unacceptable reasons and now works as an RJ for the same channel for current affairs.Arjun while of air gets a call from Raghubir Matha stating that he will blow the sea link but he takes it as a joke and asks him to go ahead and next moment the sea link is blown killing innocent lives.Arjun does not report about Raghubir to the cops but keeps a demand in front of his boss Ankita Malaskar that he will have to be given his prime time seat back if she wants to air the prime news on her channel.Ankita whose more concerned about her channel ratings strikes deal but Arjun will have to show the news what she wants.Arjun covers the news where Raghubir demands that the Chief Minister should come to his studio and say sorry to him during his live telecast or else there will be more destruction. But Ankita's only priority is to check her TRP ratings where Raghubir causes more destruction where Arjun looses his wife Saumya as well as causes trouble for himself.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
- Arjun Pathak (Kartik Aaryan) was once a top news anchor, but gets demoted due to an unsavory incident. Pulled from prime-time TV news and recently divorced, he is now the jaded and bitter host of a current affairs radio program. One day during his morning show, Arjun receives a peculiar phone call threatening to blow up the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, a major bridge which is also just outside Arjun's studio building. At first, Arjun takes it as a joke or prank call and tells the terrorist to proceed. He watches in shock as the caller follows through on the threat and detonates explosives that cause the bridge to collapse, killing innocent people and trapping others.
Realising this could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make his comeback as a newscaster, Arjun purposely doesn't call the police (& also stops the radio show employees from calling the police). Instead, he sets up a makeshift television studio from his radio station, and negotiates with his former boss (he records the call and gets Ankita to promise the prime anchor slot to Arjun), the profit- and ratings-obsessed news producer, Ankita Malaskar (Amruta Subhash) who'll do anything to beat the other TV stations in their coverage of the bombing. Then Arjun strikes a dangerous deal with the terrorist to exclusively broadcast their phone conversations live (Arjun agrees to pay Rs 2179245 in exchange for exclusivity), in real-time, as the whole nation watches.
The newsroom erupts in chaos as Arjun, Ankita, the police, other broadcast providers and the government all exploit terrorism for their own agenda. The only exception is Soumya (Mrunal Thakur), Arjun's ex-wife, a reporter who volunteers to report from the site of the terrorist attack. Arjun is not happy that Ankita sent Soumya to the site for reporting. As the live show progresses, Arjun gradually realizes how little control he has over the situation. The terrorist, who claims to be Raghubeer Mhata (Soham Majumdar), a 50-something construction worker who lost three of his co-workers in a senseless industrial accident while fixing the bridge (Raghubeer says he worked on the construction of the bridge in 2000 and then was brought in to conduct repairs before a big industrial summit in the city. The crew was made to work at night, in heavy rain for an extra bonus of Rs 1000. A rope broke and 3 men fell into the water. Nobody rescued them as everyone was busy prepping to welcome the VIPs), says the families of the victims weren't compensated and demands a public apology from the minister Jeydev Patil (who was in charge of the repairs) for the deaths of his colleagues. With several people remaining on the bridge as hostages, the terrorist threatens a second explosion. He also reveals to Arjun alone that he put a bomb in the anchor's earphone, and that if the minister doesn't apologize, the bomb will explode in his ear, live on air.
Arjun promises to the caller that he will request the minister to come to their studio and give him an apology. Anti terrorism Officer Praveen Kamath (Vikas Kumar) arrives at the studio and guides Arjun through the negotiations. Raghubeer had given a 10 mins warning to produce the minister. At the end of 10 mins, Praveen asks Arjun to tell Raghubeer that the Minister is coming in 5 mins. The minister's deputy Subhash Mathur (Vishwajeet Pradhan) arrives at the studio but refuses to apologize to the caller and asks him to negotiate. He also calls him a terrorist, which angers him. Arjun realizes that there is a bomb in Subhash's earpiece as well, and warns him discreetly. But the caller observes this through CCTV footage and immediately explodes the bomb in Subhash's earpiece, fatally injuring him.
This leaves Arjun extremely scared and nervous. But Ankita orders him to keep going and tells him to not make any negotiations with the caller, as they are tracing the location of the call and would get hold of him soon. Ankita also says to tell Raghubeer that no minister is coming to deliver his apology. she knows that Raghubeer will do some stupidity and kill more hostages on the bridge. This way he will be the villain, cops will catch him, the minister wont have to say sorry and Arjun can claim that he helped catch Raghubeer. The caller threatens to detonate more explosives at the bridge which could kill many people, including Arjun's wife Soumya. Arjun decides to go ahead with fulfilling the caller's demands and requests him to come to the studio where the minister would give him an apology.
This angers Ankita, who leaks information of Arjun having accepted a bribe to cover up the news of the same incident of the construction workers losing their lives while repairing the bridge, which had led to him being demoted. It is also revealed that sometime earlier, Arjun had won the "Journalist of the Year" award, for a report which he had actually stolen from Soumya, which had led to their divorce. Ankita exposes this truth as well, which is broadcast by another news channel. Ankita blackmails Arjun by saying that she can still handle the situation and he can save his career and reputation, if he acts as per her orders. Arjun continues to parley with Raghubeer and manages to convince him to let women and children off the bridge. Raghubeer agrees if Soumya agrees to stay behind as collateral. But before the rescue can be completed, the bridge collapses and Soumya apparently dies.
The ATS traces the caller's location to a nearby building, but it's a trap, and the caller blows up the building, the impact of which causes the studio to also get nearly destroyed. Arjun is alive but gravely injured. He suddenly realizes that the caller is actually Raghubeer's son Anand, who wants to avenge the death of his father and coworkers, and that he has been calling from the same building. Arjun summons him to the studio, while everything is still being broadcast live. Anand arrives and reveals that he has planted an explosive in the same building and intends to blow it up. Just then, he is sniped down by the ATS from a nearby building, instantly killing him (before dying Anand says that his dad Raghubeer used to trust only Arjun that's why he approached only Arjun). Arjun finds out that the bridge has collapsed and many people have lost their lives, including Soumya. On having found out that Arjun, instead of informing the police first, had decided to exclusively cover this news, to get back his position as the prime time news anchor, Ankita leaks this information. Another news channel broadcasts this news adding a false story of Arjun being actively involved in planning the attack, labeling him as an anti-national. Arjun, devastated, apologizes to his ex-wife and then himself detonates the explosive in the same building, causing it to collapse, killing him as well.
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