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The life of Major Mukund Varadarajan and is set against the backdrop of the Qazipathri Operation in Shopian, Kashmir, which took place back in 2014.

An upright army officer (Sivakarthikeyan) leads a group of soldiers to battle against Pakistan who are hell bent to destroy the peace in Kashmir. In this journey, the protagonist discovers himself and inspires his team by giving them support and strength in this deadly war.—vamsi-68790

Indhu Rebecca Varghese nee' Mukund, along with her daughter, Arsheya Mukund, father-in-law, Varadarajan, and mother-in-law, Geetha Varadarajan, are on their way to New Delhi to receive the Ashoka Chakra, which is being posthumously awarded to Indhu's husband, Major Mukund Varadarajan. Saying that she is forever in a long-distance relationship with her love, she begins narrating the story of him.

The story then shifts to 2003, where Indhu begins her undergraduate degree at a Madras Christian College in Chennai, where Mukund is her senior. Indhu is chosen as a model for a fashion show after many participants modeled from many colleges, where she would represent their college at a modeling event. Initially, she resists from going, however Mukund, as her helper, makes her reconsider her decision of participating. Eventually winning the competition, she thanks Mukund, love blossoming between them. Shortly afterward, they fall in love and begin dating, and Indhu eventually finds out that he wants to join the Indian Army. However, his mother, Geetha, upon finding this out, starts to oppose his decision but still, a determined Mukund passes his Officers Training Academy entry exam with the support of Indhu and Varadarajan. Later, when Indhu is introduced to the Varadarajan family, his mother is immediately displeased and shows disapproval towards the marriage, unlike his father and two sisters, but later she reluctantly agrees.

After several months of hard training, Mukund is promoted to be a Lieutenant, rifle and gun trainer, serving in Mhowgaon, Madhya Pradesh. Meanwhile, when Indhu expresses her love for Mukund to her family, her father, George Varghese, and her second elder brother, Deepu, show anger and reluctance, due to the fact that he was a Tamilian, Hindu Religion and that too, an Army officer. Only her first elder brother Andrews supports her decision and tries to convince George but soon tensions heat up when Mukund gets enraged over George's reporting to his commanding officer Col. R. Varghese that his daughter was in love with Mukund. Eventually they break up, disheartening Indhu. After a year of silence, Mukund and Indhu reunite and finally both the families happily agree to their marriage and they get married on June 30, 2009, after which, the couple get pregnant and have a daughter named Arsheya, on March 17, 2011. Soon after, Mukund gets promoted to the role of a Captain, serving in the United Nations Syria-Lebanon border Mission.

Later afterwards in 2012, Mukund gets promoted to role of Major and in posted into the Rashtriya Rifles battalion in the 44th regiment, on October 18, 2012, in place of the previous Company Commander, Major Mithun Mohan, who is now posted to Delhi Regiment. He is introduced to the CAT (Counter Assault Team) Team - Sepoy Vikram Singh, Sepoy Ravi Shankar, Sepoy Michael Anthony, Sepoy Waheed Ahmed, Sepoy Saifudeen, Sepoy Rajesh, Sepoy Venkanna, Major Srinath, Sepoy Jyoti Nanda, and Sepoy Joginder - and to his Commanding officer, Colonel Amit Singh Dabas. Dabas gives him a brief overview on the most wanted and notorious Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist in all of the Kashmir, Altaf Baba. Sepoy Waheed and Sepoy Saifudeen lead Mukund into the nooks and corners of Kashmir, and Mukund meets the father of Altaf Baba, Abdul Gilani, who refuses to concede with the fact that his son is a terrorist and deems him a freedom fighter. Mukund, saving his ego and warning him, eventually leaves. Somehow, After many months of gathering information and plan, Major Mukund, Sepoy Vikram and his CAT team finally kill Altaf Baba, after a tough fight and stone pelting by civilians on June of 2013. Mukund's bravery and valor is celebrated by his entire team, but he refuses to accept the Sena Medal from the Colonel, instead recommending Waheed or Joginder as Waheed guided him through Kashmir and Joginder neutralized a terrorist Abbas Ali Nagaroo allowing Mukund to nab Altaf Baba, during the operation. But soon and unfortunately, another terrorist named Asif Wani, a Jaish-e-Mohammed commander, pops up in the Military intelligence radar; Mukund and his team are on on a hunt for him as he is traumatized and angered by the death of his informer, Latif Ali, who was killed by Asif Wani once after finding out that he (Latif) joined hands with the Indian Army and contributed to the death of Altaf Baba. Moments before his death, Asif Wani brutally interrogates Latif, to which Latif tells Wani that Sepoy Waheed Ahmed and Major Mukund were the major culprits behind Altaf Baba's killing. By this, an enraged Wani along with his fellow terrorists attacks and ambushes Major Mukund, Sepoy Vikram, Sepoy Ravi Shankar and Major Srinath in their convoys, resulting in Major Srinath being killed and martyred. Later, Sepoy Waheed is kidnapped at home, is tortured, and taken to Gond Village in Kashmir to behead him in public but somehow and fortunately, Major Mukund, Sepoy Vikram and the CAT team eventually save him from being beheaded and bring him back safely, despite Col. Amit Dabas expressing ambivalence, impossibility and difficulty. Dabas them later congratulates Mukund and the CAT team for saving Waheed from being killed.

Afterwards, during a training with guns and rifles, Sepoy Saifudeen accidentally and unknowingly misfires and hits Mukund in the back, agonizing him in pain. At the hospital, Mukund then insists to shift to Kerala hospital, in the care of his father-in-law Varghese, further telling him that the care at the military hospital will let officials know Saifudeen misfired it, which would lead them to court-martial Saifudeen from the Indian Army. He later takes treatment in Kerala and goes to Tambaram, Chennai to meet and simultaneously spend time with Indhu and Arsheya. When Indhu cries looking at his covered wound, Mukund asks her to promise that she will never cry, even if he were to die in the future. A reluctant Indhu promises him, and they head to Chennai to see Mukund's parents and soon they buy a new house under their sufficient budget. After a month, Mukund heads back to his posting base at Kashmir and and tearfully bids farewell to his parents, Indhu and Arsheya.

Soon Dabas, as the election time nears, gives a major alert to Major Mukund and the CAT team to help the people of Kashmir with voting safely, and Mukund along with his team, starts to educate the local Kashmiri children and help citizens vote. Despite the attempts for a successful election, the CAT team is let know that an attack is executed, in the bus with the polling officers, burning the voting ballots, as a warning by Wani to prevent citizens from voting. Then, on the next day, while the CAT Team sits down for lunch, Sepoy Waheed lets Mukund know that they've received an important intel that Wani and his people are cooped up in a house in Doodhpathri Village and has some people as hostages in that house. So, the entire CAT team along with Major Mukund and Col. Dabas frantically rushes there. Sepoy Venkanna, Joginder, Jyoti, and Hardeep evacuate the civilians while Sepoy Ravi Shankar, Michael, Waheed, Rajesh, and Saifudeen cover Major Mukund and Sepoy Vikram as they enter in the house.

However, Dabas stops them and insists many times that they come back as unknown explosives were planted inside the house but however, Mukund and Vikram are firm on their decision to not let Wani go. They slowly eliminate each and every terrorist, but when Vikram tries to fire at Wani, he shoots Vikram violently, instantly killing him. An enraged and saddened Mukund, lobs a grenade into the room of Wani, and eventually kills him through hand-to-hand combat. He later walks out, confirming that the operation was a success, but faints due to the bullet injuries, and excessive blood loss. On Sepoy Venkanna's lap, Mukund expresses despair for losing Vikram, however Dabas cuts him off and rushes him in the ambulance. Despite multiple attempts to revive him, Mukund breathes his last in Ravi's arms, devastating the CAT team and Col. Dabas.

It is already morning, and Indhu's first elder brother, Andrews, visits her to break the news on Mukund's death. Indhu breaks down after hearing Dabas's voice message, but later controls herself, remembering the promise she made to her husband. Varadarajan and Geetha are devastated and mourns his death. Mukund's body departs from Kashmir with gun salutes and a teary farewell from the CAT team and Amit Singh Dabas to Tambaram, where his funeral procession and homage tribute takes place. Ravi, with held-back tears lets a stoic Indhu know about Mukund's last words. Saddened but without a single tear in her eyes, Indhu later heads to the crematorium and watches his cremation, with a numb-heart. Everyone pay homage to Mukund and after his last rites, his ashes are flowed at the banks of Rameswaram.

Presently, Indhu receives the Ashoka Chakra from President Pranab Mukherjee on 26 January 2015, and a bust of Mukund is opened up in Officers Training Academy, in Chennai, on June 1 2015. The film ends with Indhu sitting next to his monument and feeling the presence of Mukund leaning on her shoulder, but later fading away, implying that it is his soul, which is still bonded to her and his daughter, and will always be.

The footage and photos of real Major Mukund Varadarajan and his family is later shown in the credits.

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