Plot

When India's top batsman goes missing in the Middle East, two mismatched cops must team up for a 36-hour manhunt before the cricket final.

When India's top batsman Viraj goes missing in Middle East, two cops Kabir Shergill and Junaid Ansari from either side of Arabian Sea team for a 36-hours man hunt before the final match between India and Pakistan.—nehaljhirmaria

During a cricket tournament in the Middle East, India's top cricketer Viraj Sharma (Saqib Saleem) goes missing. Indian authorities gets a video tape of an unknown Pakistani Fan, claiming to have abducted Viraj till the India vs Pakistan cricket match two days later and warned them not to cancel the match. To avoid mass panic Indian authorities keeps the news away from media and sends an Indian police officer Kabir Shergill (John Abraham) to U.A.E for a 36-hour man hunt." Kabir who is a no-nonsense cop bumps into a rookie Emirates police officer Junaid Ansari (Varun Dhawan), who has never solved a case but had a good knowledge of the town.

Both Kabir and Junaid club together to starts their investigation with CCTV footage of Viraj's hotel and finds out that on the night of his disappearance, Viraj went out with an unknown girl (Nargis Fakhri). On confronting her, she reveal that she took Viraj to a friend's party but he left soon. Kabir and Junaid roams around the town to meet a local goon (Vijay Raaz) who tells them that after the party, Viraj's wallet was stolen by a pickpocket. To get to the girl, the goon points them to a Gay playboy (Akshay Kumar) who met Viraj in the same party. But the gay playboy is a dead end. Finally, the duo gets a breakthrough by tracking down Viraj's cellphone from a pick-pocket home, Ishika (Jacqueline Fernandez) who claim to have stolen the cell phone from a stranger. They also manages to capture the person in the video, but discover that he is just a struggling actor being used as the face in the video by the real kidnapper.

Meanwhile, it is revealed that the real kidnapper is a cricket bookie Wagah (Akshaye Khanna), who along with his assistant Altaf (Rahul Dev) has abducted Viraj and offered him 50 Crore rupees to under play in the final. But then Viraj tries to approach a cop (without knowing that the cop is Wagah himself) & they kidnaps him permanently till the final match is played. UAE police spots Altaf in Abu Dhabi, but are unable to pursue him there. Kabir decides to pursue Altaf alone, and Junaid & Ishita join him. Kabir, Junaid and Ishita goes to a underground Arabian club full of goons and guns. Kabir spots Altaf and both tries to chase him down but before they could succeed, a sniper kills Altaf. Wagah calls and confesses to Kabir that he got him killed and they should stop searching for Viraj.

On returning to Abu Dhabi, Kabir and Junaid are taken off the case and Kabir ordered to fly back to India. Earlier in the movie, Junaid had been tasked to find a missing dog & he was butt of all police jokes as he could not find it. But while on Altaf's trail, he finds the dog & returns it to his department. It turns out that the dog belonged to Wagah. Junaid had put a hidden video camera on the dog (so that he can find him again), & finds video of the location where Wagah had hidden Viraj.Wagah has hidden him in a yacht near the team hotel. Both reaches the location only to discover that Wagah has fled leaving behind Viraj tied with a time bomb. With minutes to blast Kabir negotiates with Wagah to stop the bomb in return of 5 billion rupees from Indian Government. Wagah takes the money but refuses to stop the bomb. After witnessing the blast from a distance Wagah walks into the cricket stadium expecting the match to begin without Viraj. But to his shock Viraj is alive and walks in to the ground all ready to play as Kabir and Junaid helped Viraj to get out of the jacket by dislocating his shoulder and all three had jumped into water just before the blast.

After seeing his plan failed, Wagah tries to run away only to be apprehended by the duo. Kabir returns to India along with Ishita, while Junaid gets a marriage proposal from an Indian girl Muskaan (Parineeti Chopra) and he also plans to fly to India to meet her.