Cast
- Shah Rukh Khan as Pathaan, a RAW agent
- Deepika Padukone as Rubina "Rubai" Mohsin, an ISI agent
- John Abraham as Jim, leader of "Outfit X" and a former RAW Agent
- Dimple Kapadia as Nandini Grewal, head of the Joint Operations and Covert Research (JOCR)
- Ashutosh Rana as Colonel Sunil Luthra
- Prakash Belawadi as Dr. Sahani
- Prem Jhangiani as Dr. Farooqui
- Shaji Choudhary as Raza, member of JOCR
- Ekta Kaul as Shweta Bajaj, hacker and member of JOCR
- Diganta Hazarika as Joseph Mathews, sniper and member of JOCR
- Viraf Patel as Rishi Arya, intelligence analyst and member of JOCR
- Aakash Bhatija as Amol, member of JOCR
- Rajat Kaul as Raafe, Jim's henchman
- Manish Wadhwa as General Qadir
- Rumi Khan as Jim's henchman
- Mansi Taxak as Jim's wife
- Ashutosh Singh as Rubai's father
- Amanpreet Hundal as Rubai's mother
- Keith Sequeira as Captain Mehra (Pilot)
- Rakesh Khatri as ATC Supervisor
- Mustafa Aksari as Fayyed
- Nikhat Khan as Sabba, Pathaan's foster mother
- Grace Girdhar as Young Rubai
- Salman Khan as Avinash Singh "Tiger" Rathore (cameo appearance)
Story Lines
In 2019, the Government of India abrogated Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which grants unique status to Jammu and Kashmir. This news infuriates General Qadir of the ailing Pakistani Armed Forces, who chooses to exact vengeance against India. He signs a deal with Jim, who runs "Outfit X", a psychotic terrorist syndicate operating under Lashkar-e-Taiba. Meanwhile, Pathan and his superior Nandini Grewal, a crude expert, opened a unit called the "Joint Action and Covert Investigation" (JOCR) unit to select former crude experts who had to resign due to previous injury or injury. But there is a need to serve the country.
With the approval of CRUD's Joint Secretary, Colonel Sunil Luthra, Pathan and his group travel to Dubai to stop Outfit X's arrangement of going after India's leader in a logistical meeting. Despite this, they understand that their real arrangement was to capture the two researchers, Dr. Farooqi and Dr. Sawhney, and that the data they received about the inevitable attack on the President was a ploy to mislead them. Jim attacks the caravan of researchers and Pathan tries to stop him. A battle ensues, where Jim figures out how to escape with Dr. Sawhney. In a post-op interview at the office, the Luthras learn that Jim was a former crude specialist who was awarded a gallantry award for his bravery after Somalian terrorists killed her husband and unborn child. Couldn't find the body. The child turned out to be bad in the discussion. He apparently faked his demise to take vengeance against the office and the country for not saving his loved ones.
Meanwhile, Pathan learns about the codeword named "Raktabeej" and also learns that the dead men in Dubai were ex-experts and their money was stolen from the account of Rubina Mohsin (Rubai), a Pakistani expert in Spain . He travels to Spain and is captured by Jim's men, where he also learns that Rubai is an ex-ISI specialist. When Jim leaves his hideout, Rubai attacks Jim's men and leaves with Pathan. Rubai learns that Raktabeej is in Moscow, where they travel to pick him up before Jim arrives. In any case, Rubai betrays Pathan and gets him caught by the police. It is revealed that Jim used Rubai to get Pathan to take the blood seed for himself. Pathan is captured and taken to jail via train, though Avinash Singh "Tiger" Rathod rescues him.
