The online community loves Siddharth Malhotra’s latest spy film. Mission Majnu, which is now available on Netflix, recounts a true event from India’s turbulent shared history with Pakistan during the 1970s. Rashmika Mandanna, Kumud Mishra, Zakir Hussain, and Sharib Hashmi are the other star attractions in the ensemble. The film’s twisty plot and intricacies ensure that the final act is thrilling and satisfying. Since it belongs to the spy genre, there are many deceptive maneuvers that Malhotra’s Tariq and other RAW agents resort to, ensuring that we have enough material for an ending explainer article. For your convenience, we have explained the plot and ending of Mission Majnu below. Happy reading!
Mission Majnu Plot Summary
The film’s central plot revolves around a covert operation initiated by RAW field agents in Rawalpindi. They detect Pakistan’s efforts to research and develop a nuclear weapon in retaliation for India’s successful Pokhran testing. Amandeep Singh (Malhotra) is paired up with Aslam (Hashmi) to gather actionable intelligence and destroy the weapon before Pakistan can test it. The agents face a challenge in locating the facility where this weapon is being made. The agents must risk their lives to protect their country’s sovereignty and security.
Why is Pakistan building a nuclear weapon?
Pakistan’s leadership wakes up to the news of India successfully testing a nuclear weapon in Pokhran. The entire country was thrown into chaos, and due to the volatile international reaction at the time, they believed India could attack anytime. Prime Minister Bhutto and the other leaders decide that the time has come for self-defense and establishing Pakistan as a nuclear power.
To make their dream come true, they call a renowned scientist, Abdul Qadir Khan, from Holland to supervise the project. Khan arrives, inspects the land where the facility will be built, and leads a team in charge of weapon research. However, as the film progresses, we aren’t given any indication of where it is being built. Khan believes that the weapon will enable them to launch missiles into their neighboring country and even serve as an alternative energy source.
Why does Sharma call Amandeep the son of a traitor, and why does R. N. Kao still choose him? Sharma consistently refers to Amandeep as the son of a traitor and has no respect for the agent. He uses cuss words and derogatory language toward him, even confessing that he does not care if Amandeep dies or lives through the mission. The reason for the same is not elaborately discussed in the film. We only get a couple of scenes where some kind of explanation is given for what happened with Amandeep’s father, Arijit Pal. The revelation comes when an aide to RAW Chief RN Kao asks him why he gave the mission to Amandeep when his father was the one responsible for leaking secret and classified blueprints of Ambala airways to Pakistan.
Kao has faith in the most decorated cadet he has ever trained. He believes that Amandeep’s willingness to improve his and his family’s public image will force him to exceed expectations. Even though soldiers are trained to lay down their lives for their country, this will motivate and drive Amandeep to make it happen anyhow.
Why does Aslam kill Momin and not Amandeep when Sharma orders him to do so?
Aslam followed Amandeep everywhere after Sharma warned him that Aman’s father was a traitor. He saw that Aman was a good man and cared for Nasreen, even if she was disposable for the mission’s success. One night, when Aslam is still suspicious of Aman, follows him to the tailor shop, where he used to communicate with Delhi. Momin confronted him at the doorstep and construed Aman’s secrecy as an affair out of his marriage. Since this conversation was not audible to Aslam, he thought that Aman’s cover was blown.
He informs Sharma, and the bitter man gets an opportunity to order Aman’s killing. However, despite the visual cues, Aslam did not kill Aman. Instead, he killed Momin, believing him to know the mission and choosing not to kill Aman because he felt the mission could not have been completed without him. Aslam also saw him as a good man and a brilliant agent.
How does Tariq track down the presence of Abdul Khan in Rawalpindi?
It’s no coincidence that both of Amandeep’s epiphanies occur due to his wife Nasreen’s innocent remarks. She is pregnant for the entire duration of the mission. Due to the pregnancy and her child pressing on her uterus, she wakes up one night and needs to use the restroom. She mentions how hard it will be for her to squat on the Indian toilet style, saying, “this is why the foreigners invented the Western style of the toilet.”
This strikes Amandeep as he knows Abdul Khan and his family have arrived from Holland. He takes a bet on the fact that they must have gotten a Western-style toilet installed wherever they stayed, and this is how he tracks his address down in Shahi Street. He asks a local vendor for a piece, and he says that it will cost Amandeep a lot of money.
The agent immediately pays him the money, and because it is a large sum, he requests to see the vendor’s work first, as the toilet will be made through a special order. The vendor gives him the address, and then Amandeep uses his charm and wit to eke out all answers from Khan’s elderly neighbor. We then return to the moment when Khan’s wife notices something in the house and breathes a sigh of relief. Her nerves were calmed when she saw the purple toilet!
How does Tariq procure physical evidence of the facility?
This revelation also came due to Amandeep’s involvement with Nasreen. The couple was drifting apart as Amandeep was more concerned with the mission than with Nasreen. One day, she suddenly reveals to her husband that the baby is not kicking and is still. Amandeep immediately takes her to the hospital to ensure that nothing is wrong with the baby. As the doctor takes her check-up, she asks him to go out. Amandeep overhears a patient refusing to wear a protective covering before having an X-Ray. To which the attendant warns him that the radiations are so strong that they will enter his body permanently if he does not wear them.
This causes Amandeep to have a eureka moment, and he calls his fellow agents to inform them that they will be going to Kahuta, where they suspect the facility is being built. He exclaims that there is only one barber’s shop in that town. His thinking is that all the army officers who go into the facility must be exposed to elements like uranium. That traceable radiation will be the physical proof for the Israeli forces not to attack Quetta, as they plan to alert the Pakistani forces to conduct the tests.
Because there is only one barber shop, the army officers will go there at some point.
He enters the salon and instructs his colleagues to start a fight to create a distraction. They do that, and he collects samples of the cut hair from the floor.
Mission Majnu Ending Explained: Why does Amandeep decide not to escape with Raman?
The ending is indeed frenetic as Aman scampers to send the evidence to the Israelis within 48 hours. His emotional plea to Sharma ensures that all Aman needs to do is somehow get the samples across the border. When he collects the samples and goes to the railway station, he spots hordes of the Pakistani military. Without a valid passport, there is no way he can make it across the border. Instead, he devises an intelligent plan. He notices that all of the Sikhs at the station refuse to remove their turbans. It would cause a commotion if the soldiers forced him to remove it. Aman steals a turban cloth from a passenger and fashions it into a turban.
He eyes another stranger going to the toilet and knocks him unconscious, taking his passport in the process. When the soldier objects to the fact that Aman is not wearing a turban in the passport, he creates a scene and a ruckus, forcing the other Sikhs to intimidate the soldier. He is then let into the train. Once inside, he now eyes a way to smuggle the evidence into India. Aman knows that the military will eventually find the unconscious man and that his cover will be blown. He pretends to have lost his wedding ring and places the packet into an unwitting female passenger’s bag. The military finds him, and a fight ensues.
Aman bravely fights off the soldiers and jumps across the bridge to escape. The soldiers think he is dead, but Aman communicates the location of the evidence to Delhi. Sharma acts quickly and gets the packet tested, confirming the presence of the sight in Kahuta and not Quetta. The Israeli jets nearly avoid attacking Quetta, and the mission is successful. In the end, the Prime Minister of India, Morarji Desai, refrains from acting on the intelligence and believes that his friend General Zia ul Haq, who has overthrown the democratically elected government in Pakistan through a military coup, is telling him the truth.
But it does not sit well with him, and he threatens Haq to shut down the programme. Haq is furious and orders that all RAW agents be tracked and hunted down. His subordinates use call records and narrow their search to calls made at a certain time to Delhi. They kill all the agents one by one, including Aslam. Aman prepares Nasreen to go to Dubai and escape into the wilderness forever. But his plan is spoiled when Raman Singh informs him about what has happened. They decide not to escape together, and Amandeep instead goes to ensure that Nasreen reaches Dubai safely.
He says that he carried his father’s smeared image throughout his life, and he cannot let the same thing happen to Nasreen and his unborn child. They rush to the airport, and the military closely follows him. Aman sacrifices his own life by chanting “Bharat mata ki jai” openly when the military personnel closes in on Nasreen. Her boarding goes as planned, and the soldiers pursue Amandeep. He is eventually cornered and dies honorably for his love and for his country. Nasreen discovers this reality through Kao in Dubai and laments his loss.
A final clip shows the real-life aftermath of the operation and how the bravery of those agents ensured that Pakistan could not test nuclear weapons for another twenty years when India conducted another set of tests through the then Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
