Agent Vinod (2012 film)

Agent Vinod
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Sriram Raghavan
Produced by	Saif Ali Khan Dinesh Vijan
Written by	Sriram Raghavan Arijit Biswas
Starring	Saif Ali Khan Kareena Kapoor Prem Chopra Adil Hussain Ram Kapoor
Music by	Pritam
Cinematography	C. K. Muraleedharan
Edited by	Puja Ladha Surti
Distributed by	Illuminati Films Eros Entertainment
Release date	23 March 2012 (2012-03-23)
Running time	152 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi Russian English Pashto Arabic Urdu
Budget	₹600 million (equivalent to ₹790 million or US$12 million in 2016)
Box office	₹970 million (equivalent to ₹1.3 billion or US$20 million in 2016)

Agent Vinod (stylized as AGENT VINOD) is a 2012 Indian action spy film directed by Sriram Raghavan, and written by Sriram Raghavan and Arijit Biswas. The movie borrows its name from the 1977 film of the same name. The film stars Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor.

In the Dasht-E-Margoh desert in remote Afghanistan, inside a Taliban camp, ISI official Col. Huzefa (Shahbaz Khan) is interrogating a captured man (Saif Ali Khan) presumed to be a R.A.W. agent. The man gives details of RAW's operations in Afghanistan in exchange for money and safe passage across the border. He betrays his colleague, Major Rajan (Ravi Kissen), who has also infiltrated the camp. This is only a ruse, as both overpower their captors and fight their way out of the camp. Along the way, they rescue a girl called Farah (Maryam Zakaria).

In New Delhi, Agent Vinod enters RAW headquarters to meet his boss Hassan Nawaz (B. P. Singh). Nawaz shows him Major Rajan's final message from Russia. Just as he completes his message, Rajan is killed by a man. Nawaz asks Vinod to find out what '242' is. Vinod travels to St. Petersburg, and enters a nightclub owned by Abu Nazer (Ram Kapoor). He manages to capture and interrogate Nazer, who tells him a man called Freddie Khambatta is to smuggle the million to Morocco. Vinod is almost captured by Nazer's men, but manages to escape, killing Nazer in the process.