Plot
The story is based on the life of India's top news reporter Vikas Sagar (Zayed Khan). He would do anything for his news report, even risk his life. Ambitious, popular and professional, Vikas is considered one of the most promising journalists in the business. Due to this reason, Uwais Hussain (Suniel Shetty), a senior producer at the controversial news channel "Al Johara" offers him an job as the head of the channel's India bureau. Vikas is going through a divorce with his wife Anjali (Shriya Saran), and to get his mind of things, Vikas accepts the offer and flies to Istanbul to start work for "Al Johara".
On the flight, Vikas finds himself seated next to a stunningly beautiful co-passenger Lisa Lobo (Shweta Bhardwaj), who is headed to Istanbul to attend a medical convention or so she claims. The two begin a conversation and get on well, until the flight lands, and Lisa disappears at the airport.
Once in Istanbul, Vikas's meets with the head of Al Johara, Ghazni (Nikitan Dheer), who has business interests all over the world but whose obsession these days is Al Johara as an instrument to shape world events. There is only one word of caution to Vikas and that's never ever to venture onto the 13th floor known as the Catacomb. He once again meets Uwais, who tells him that he is looking forward to quitting his job and settling down with his Irish girlfriend. Ghazni sends Vikas and Uwais on an assignment to cover kidnapped journalists in one of terrorist Abu Nazir's terrorist-camps in Afghanistan.
The two meet Abu Nazir's brother, Khalil (Shabbir Ahluwalia) who tries to scare Vikas by killing one of the kidnapped journalists. Vikas, shocked, takes action and fights Khalil's thugs. Khalil then shoots Uwais multiple times leading to his death. Vikas jumps on an helicopter and rides away, seeing Uwais get killed. Reeling at this close encounter with terrorism and watching a brutal killing, Vikas arrives back to Istanbul in a daze. Ghazni finds out about Uwais' death and holds an funeral. At the funeral, Vikas is approached by a former Turkish commando, Rizwan Khan (Vivek Oberoi), who hints that no senior employee has ever quit Al Johara and rattles off a list of Al Johara employees who had been killed in terrorist attacks within days of there being of rumours of their plans to quit or their resumes circulating in the job market.
Vikas remembers Uwais telling him that he wants to quit his job. This makes Vikas get an strong hint against Al Johara being connected to terrorism. Before asking any more questions, Rizwan Khan disappears. Vikas discreetly runs a check on the names rattled off by Rizwan and discovers he was indeed telling the truth. Five Al Johara reports before Uwais had either died in a car bomb explosion, abducted and killed or simply found dead. He slowly notices that not everything is as simple as they look in the offices of AL JOHARA, especially when he seems to bump into strangers whose faces he soon recognizes as suicide bombers in a couple of terrorist attacks.
Vikas, confused, accidentally goes to the forbidden 13th floor of the building, and is tortured by Al Johara's staff. Lisa arrives and saves him by taking him away. Lisa sends him to an van for rescue, and it turns out that Ghazni was actually inside the van waiting for him. Lisa is actually an informer for Al Johara terrorists. After surviving from Ghazni, Vikas finds Rizwan Khan and asks for help. Rizwan shows Vikas that Abu Nazir is actually dead but being kept alive by AL JOHARA through videotapes by using digital images of the terrorist and doctoring old footage.
The two together show the world on TV that Al Johara helps terrorism increase. Soon enough, Vikas is forced to wield a gun and join Rizwan in a bloody mission against international terrorism.
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