An Action Hero
2022 [HINDI]
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
An Action Hero is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language action film[2] directed by Anirudh Iyer in his directorial debut and produced by T-Series Films and Colour Yellow Productions.[3] It stars Ayushmann Khurrana and Jaideep Ahlawat in the lead roles. In the film, an action film star goes on the run after accidentally killing the brother of a ruthless politician.
An Action Hero was released on 2 December 2022 and received mostly positive reviews from critics, but underperformed at the box office.[4]
Maanav is a popular actor, who is known as a leading man in action films. For his upcoming film shoot, Maanav heads to Mandothi in Haryana. Vicky Solanki, an aspiring strongman politician currently contesting the local elections, wants to meet Maanav to gain publicity. Due to busy shooting schedule Maanav does not pay heed. Just when he is about to meet Vicky, Maanav is distracted by the delivery of his new Ford Mustang and goes for a long drive. Enraged, Vicky follows and manhandles him, but Maanav pushes him away and Vicky dies from blunt force trauma, on the spot after landing head first on a rock. Frightened, Maanav flees to his house in Portsmouth, UK. Unbeknownst to him, Vicky's brother Bhoora Singh Solanki, a municipal councilor of Mandothi, is on his tail to hunt him down.
The Haryana police conclude role of Maanav in Vicky's murder citing the side mirror of Maanav's new Mustang. Maanav's reputation is degraded and his films are boycotted. The news reaches UK as well and Maanav is forced to hide himself from the UK police, and later witnesses Bhoora killing two British officers at his home. Maanav manages to escape the scene and tries to seek help from his UK lawyer, who does not respond. During his attempt to escape, Maanav's car runs out of gas and Bhoora confronts him. Maanav tries to prove his innocence, but Bhoora does not listen and tries to kill him. Maanav manages to overpower and lock Bhoora in the car's trunk. Upon pressuring his manager Roshan for help, Maanav finally gets to meet another lawyer and fixer named Sai for capturing potential footage of Bhoora killing the two cops. Sai tells Maanav to meet his contact in London, for collecting the footage.
Meanwhile, Bhoora escapes by calling a towing company where he follows and kills Sai. When Bhoora was about to kill Maanav, he is intercepted by Sai's friend Kaadir. Maanav and Bhoora together overpower Kaadir, but Maanav gets in the car and flees again leaving Bhoora behind. Bhoora manages to learn about Maanav's whereabouts from Kaadir as a hostage. Maanav gets fed up of hiding and surrenders himself to the police with the footage that Sai's contact procured from the dashcams of the cars nearby Maanav's house in Portsmouth. Masood Abraham Katkar, a feared terrorist from the D-Company, who was taunted by Maanav as irrelevant, abducts him through his men and is taken to a rooftop, where Katkar is awaiting him. Katkar takes a photograph with Maanav, seemingly planning on sending it to the media to paint a picture that Maanav has contacts in the underworld. Katkar tells Maanav to perform at his granddaughter's wedding in exchange for his freedom.
Bhoora arrives and disrupts Maanav's dance number, only to be held at gunpoint by Katkar's men. After an interrogation, Katkar advises Bhoora to kill Maanav. Maanav's image with Katkar becomes viral on social media. Just as Bhoora is about to shoot, Maanav deflects him and Katkar gets shot dead in the skirmish. Katkar's men are alerted and arrive to kill them both. Maanav and Bhoora manage to defeat Katkar's men, before turning on each other. With his newfound inner strength, Maanav defeats and wounds Bhoora. Later, Maanav formulates a plan to make a deal with the Indian Embassy to project a story that the government used Maanav's situation and assigned him for the mission to track and kill Katkar, thus saving him from imprisonment. Bhoora refuses to spare him out of ego, despite fully being aware of his innocence from the beginning. With no choice left, Maanav kills Bhoora and his plan succeeds and returns to India to find himself surrounded by greetings from his fans and the public outside the Mumbai airport.
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