Akira (2016 Hindi film)

Akira Sharma, a young girl, witnesses a group of men throwing acid on a woman's face. She helps the police catch one of the criminals. and is therefore harassed by the accused who slash her face out of revenge, giving her a scar. Subsequently, her father enrolls her in a self-defense class. A couple of days later, she comes across the same men who had escaped earlier and tries to catch them. One of them tries to throw acid on her, but it ends up on his own face in the brawl. Akira is arrested, convicted and sent to a remand home for the attack.

3 years later, Akira is released and later grows into a rebellious tough woman. When she starts going to college, her brother comes to pick her mother and her. And hence she moves from Jodhpur to Mumbai. She joins a college and begins living in a hostel, where she finds it difficult to adjust to normal life. The college is also dealing with a thieving student, as more and more electronics keep getting stolen. When a corrupt and drunk-on-power police officer, ACP Rane hits an elderly college professor with his car and then beats him up, the college students take out a massive protest. The protests turn violent, however Akira patiently waits to hand over their petition to the Commissioner.

A couple of days later, Rane goes to help a car crash victim but robs and kills him, when he finds loot in his trunk. His girlfriend, Maya, who is in the same college as Akira, secretly records his conversation about evidence disposal. Her bag with the camera is, however, stolen, and someone starts blackmailing Rane. Suspecting Maya, he brutally kills her. Despite his insistence, the case is handled by SP Rabiya, who suspects Maya's murder.

Meanwhile, the college announces that they will pardon the electronic thief if they return all the stolen items anonymously. Akira finds a bag full of stolen items, including the camera, in front of her dorm. Rane's associates catch her with the camera and decide to kill her and two other witnesses. She, however, escapes when the men reload their gun after killing the other two.

Rane and his men, declare Akira to be mentally unstable. Given her violent past and her rebellious behaviour, her family members as well as her friends are easily convinced. She is taken away to a mental asylum, and, with the help of a corrupt doctor, they give her electric shocks to drive her insane. With the help of another mentally ill patient, she brutally murders the doctors and the guards and escapes. She abducts one of Rane's associates and blackmails him to prove her innocence. Rane, however, traces her hideout and attacks it. Rabiya, with an arrest-warrant for Rane, arrives and seizes all the arms but is stopped by the Commissioner, as the car-crash victim was the brother of a major politician – something which will lead to riots if the news of his murder breaks out. Rane gets back the charge, and the commissioner orders him to take Akira to a mental asylum. Helpless, Rabiya leaves but quietly carries along the seized arms, leaving those inside unarmed. Akira easily kills Rane and his associates in hand-to-hand combat and then goes back to the mental asylum. Completely sane, she is released three months later. In the end, she starts living her late father's life in Jodhpur and is living peacefully there teaching deaf children.

The songs featured in the film were composed by the duo Vishal–Shekhar. The background score of the film was composed by John Stewart Eduri.

The song Kehkasha Tu Meri is a remake of the duo's Marathi song Harvali Pakhare from the 2012 film Balak-Palak, sung by Shekhar Ravjiani.

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