During insurgency of 1995 in Kashmir Hilaal, played by Narendra Jha, a surgeon performs an appendectomy on Ikhlaque, a militant leader in his house. Hilaal’s wife Ghazala, played by Tabu isn’t happy about it. The police raid his
House and take Hilaal for questioning while Ikhlaque is killed. Few days later Hilaal and Ghazala’s son Haider, played by Shahid Kapoor visits them after completing his studies and finds his father missing, while his mother is happy in the company of his uncle Khurram, played by Kay Kay Menon.
Desperate to find his father he goes on a mission with his ladylove Arshia, played by Shraddha Kapoor who’s a journalist to find answers. They later meet a man called Roohdar who tells them that he and Hilaal were tortured in the same detention camp and got shot at and thrown in a river. He survived but Hilaal succumbed to his injuries and died. All this was the planning of Khurram. Thus Haider vows to avenge his father’s death.
Haider becomes mentally unstable on learning the news of his father. Khurram gets the news of him meeting Roohdar and tells him it was actually Roohdar who killed his father. Few days later Khurram marries Ghazala and tells his men to send Haider to a mental asylum. Ghazala later meets Haider and tells him that she didn’t know that Khurram was an informant of the Indian Army and Arshai’s father Pervez shoots at them but Haider instead kills him. Seeing her father die at the hands of Haider she commits suicide.
Later Haider kills Arshia’s brother who tries to attack him. Meanwhile Khurram goes to Hilaal’s graveyard to kill HAider but Ghazala pleads him not to and she blows herself up with a sucide bomb vest. The explosion severs Khurram’s legs and Haider leaves him to die. The movie is directed and produced by Vishal Bhardwaj and Siddharth Roy Kapur. The music is composed by Vishal Bhardwaj.
