One Sunday Night

Veera Tripathi (Alia Bhatt) is the daughter of a rich Delhi-based business tycoon Manik Kumar Tripathi (Reuben Israel). One day before her wedding, she feels stifled with the wedding rituals and the family people. She goes on a drive with Vinay (Arjun Malhotra) - her fiance whom she does not love (Vinay is the conservative types and she is the adventurous one, who likes to live life on her whims) - and is abducted from a petrol station off a highway (they were running away after a robbery and abducted Veera as a shield to protect themselves), while Vinay sits in the car convulsed with fear. The abductors take her to a village safe house outside the city. The gang of abductors (Led by Kasana (Hemant Mahaur)) start to panic when they find out that her father has links in the government. However, Mahabir Bhati (Randeep Hooda), one of the abductors, is willing to do whatever it takes to see this through. Mahavir has a thing against elitist rich Indians and is not afraid to take them on. He vows to put Veera in a brothel, if he can't elicit a ransom out of Manik. Mahavir is assisted by Goru (Saharsh Kumar Shukla), Tonk (Pradeep Nagar) & Aadoo (Durgesh Kumar). The men continuously move Veera through different cities, to avoid being tracked by police. Initially, the police is searching far and wide for Veera and hence none of the usual Mahavir contacts agree to provide him shelter. when Mahavir is gone, Goru tries to get close to Veera with a promise to protect her, in exchange for sexual favors. Veera is taken to an abandoned industrial warehouse. When she tries to escape, Mahabir lets her run. Eventually Veera figures that she is in the middle of the desert and can only survive with Mahabir. She returns. Goru tries to force himself on Veera, but Mahabir arrives and slaps Goru straight. Goru runs away, presumably to inform the police and turn Mahabir in. Mahabir decides to shift base again. But this time Veera is more assured. She sits upfront, stands up to Mahabir's bullying and tells him that she is also a human. Eventually, when the police forcefully search the truck, Veera, surprising even herself, hides. She concludes that she loves the journey and doesn't want to go back to her family and old life. As the days go by, Veera finds peace and a new-found freedom, which confuses and frustrates Mahabir. Veera becomes comfortable with her captors, to the point that she confides in Mahabir the horrors of her childhood, when she was sexually abused by her own uncle as a nine-year-old. When she told her own mother, she was told to keep quiet and never reveal this to anyone. She views the abduction as a blessing in disguise, since she finally has the chance to experience life and find herself. Meanwhile Veera's family and the police is searching for her actively. Mahabir is known as the kidnapper. Kasana is interrogated. Tonk makes calls to Veera's family for ransom, after travelling by train from one location to another (Noida, Calcutta and so on). Goru contacts the police, as expected. Tonk rejoins Mahabir in Punjab. Mahabir is still adamant that he will sell Veera at a brothel. Slowly, she unravels Mahabir's story in bits and pieces. His father abused both, him when he was a young child, and his mother who was used as a sex slave by the rich landlords. Mahabir escaped and has never returned. Mahabir slowly lets down his guard and begins to care for Veera, and his anger fades away slowly. He tries to leave her at a police station in one of the small mountainous towns they stop in (He says he has killed 3 people and has no future. He can't marry her and ruin her life too). However, Veera refuses and insists on staying with Mahabir. Together, they travel, and he starts to fall in love with her. They stay in a hilltop house and Veera reveals that one of her many crazy dreams was always to have a small home in the mountains. Mahabir becomes emotional seeing the way Veera cares for him, reminding him of his mother. Both sleep peacefully that night, free from their respective haunting pasts. But the very next morning, police arrive and, during the chaos, shoot Mahabir, to which Veera reacts emotionally and strongly. It is later revealed that Mahabir is killed on the spot. She is later brought back to her parents' house, where she recovers from the emotionally draining experience while surrounded by her family members, including her fiance. Veera breaks up with Vinay. Finally, she feels physically better and confronts her uncle who molested her as a child, in front of her family. She yells and breaks down as she asks her father why he warned her only about dangers posed by outsiders, while the real threat was from insiders, the people who had surrounded her since childhood. She leaves the house and goes to live in the mountains where she starts her own factory, buys a house and lives there. The film ends with Veera looking at the mountains, then the sky (remembering Mahabir). Closing her eyes, she sees her nine-year-old self playing happily on the hillside. A boy (Mahabir in childhood) joins her. She watches them play, making peace with both the man she loved and their mutual childhood forms.