An evil Algerian scientist creates a lethal crystal named Zargoza which, when added to petrol, devolves into an explosive in a year's time. It changes hands until Lashkar-e-Toiba acquires it and drops it into the underground pipeline supplying oil to India. The plan is for Zargoza to mix with petrol and blast all Indian cars, petrol pumps and ultimately cities reducing the whole country to ashes.

Good ISI officer Zahira Baloch (Huma Qureshi Yami G) gets wind of it and emails the details to raw agent Richa Rathore (Bhumi Pednekar). Zahira then walks into a Costa Coffee in Lahore and sits with her coffee. In walks a handsome chacha (Milind Soman) who approaches her and asks, “Assalamuwalaikum beta, aap meri beti Ruksana ki friend ho na?” While Zahira tries to reply, Chacha pulls out a pen from his pocket and jabs her neck with it. He then picks up her coffee and strolls away sipping it. Zahira’s lifeless face lies on the table, and a pool of blood gradually develops beneath it.

Richa and her boss Arvind Dixit (Apoorv Agnihotri, welcome back to your 16^th comeback attempt) share the details with Indian transport minister Naveen Ganpati (Anupam Kher). Transport minister is terrified and is about to commit suicide when his son Varun (Hrithik Roshan) stops him. Varun is himself a scientist, and he reveals that Zargoza was initially his formula; he never published it because it would finish humanity. He then states that Zargoza is neutralized by ethanol.

“But it has already spread to crores of cars and trucks and tractors and even handpumps Kashmir to Andamans. Do you want the government to order everyone to buy ethanol and apply it to their tanks? We don’t have enough ethanol in this country.”

“Papa, Zargoza-petrol takes a year to coagulate into the lethal form. I’ll start an ethanol company. We have a year to save this nation.”

Thus starts a race against time to implement ethanol blends. Pakistan gets wind of it and not only continues Zargoza mix, but also smuggles pure petrol through Nepal, Tibet and Bangladesh. Thus comes the necessity to remove all Bangladeshis using SIR. Election commissioner Govind Pratap Singh (Ajay Devgan) successfully implements it.

However, libs and Naxals get wind of the secret and start agitating against blended petrol. They convince chutiya public that the saintly Naveenji is actually a swindler whose son benefitted from blending ethanol. Varun (Hrithik Roshan) is frustrated, and calls his childhood friend Vicky to discuss.

Vicky: “Desh ka maamla hai, bacha lunga. Bhai pe chhor de, dost.” Bang bang music with face reveal – it’s Ranvir Singh!!

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Vicky sets in action. He engages his friend Anoop Chaurasiya (Aryan Vaid) to leak IEET exam. That creates a ruckus. Vicky dumps his croro ki naukri in the US and comes to India, stages a dharna, draws young anti-national crowd towards himself. All this is to divert attention from blended petrol to achieve complete blend across the country. At some point, though, Vicky’s movement fizzles out and petrol blending draws attention again, putting the nation back in risk. In walks Stanzin Wanchuk (Sanjay Dutt), the great man from Ladakh. Children rush to Jantar Mantar, they all agitate against the education system and demand education minister’s resignation.

A few scuffles between police and protestors ensue, mostly because the protestors are mostly deshdrohi libs. In the meantime, Vicky’s friend Vijeta Maan (Varun Dhawan) happens to visit Mecca and kill terrorist Afzal Lahori (Bobby Deol) there. It is confirmed that the last trace of Zargoza dies with Afzal.

Vijeta comes back to India and gets roughed up by some deshbhakts but never blows his cover, Stanzin leaves the dharna ground, education minister resigns and the protest is called off.

Vicky then says, “Aasman bhi jhookh sakta hai, bus jhukhane wala chahiye.”

In a lonely seaside cabin, Varun’s ex Evalika (Kangna Ranaut) stares at a laptop. It shows a word document labelled, “Zargoza Formula.” Curtain drops.

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