Jewel Thief - The Heist Begins 2025

After renunciation of his father, a doctor, jewel thief Rehan Roy (Saif Ali Khan) travels the world and continues to steal all kinds of expensive treasures, with Indian Secret Service officer Vikram Patel (Kunal Kapoor) hot on his trail. Roy is hiding in Budapest. Chaddha (Chirjot Singh Kohli) and Shekhar (Vinay Sharma) keep Rehan under observation in Budapest at all times.

Rajan Aulakh is an art collector and connoisseur. He is also a brutal man who kills his accountant Mr Mehta (Ujjawal Gauraha) for leaking the details of his offshore bank accounts to the Interpol and causing a loss of Rs 200 Crores. Due to this Rajan had to sell one of his paintings to pay off his clients who also lost their money to Interpol. Rajan was an underworld don, who is trying to go legitimate.

Rajan learns that The Red Sun, also called the Kohinoor of Africa and is coming to India. The gem will be displayed in a museum. Rajan decides that it is time to activate the Jewel Thief.

Three years later, Rehan’s brother Avi (Gagan Arora) comes to him. Roy learns that Rajan Aulakh (Jaideep Ahlawat) made a very large donation of Rs 10 Crores to Roy’s father Jayant (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) which enabled him to open a charity hospital, which was a lifelong dream of his. Avi is then pulled aside by Rajan’s henchman Chunky (Sumit Gulati), who tells Avi that all the money transferred to Jayant is proceeds of crime, and came from an unnamed account. If Rajan reports this to the Enforcement Directorate, Jayant would be arrested and jailed. Jayant had kicked Rehan out of the house years earlier by labeling him a thief. Rajan tells Avi that he wants Rehan.

This prompts Roy to travel to India to negotiate with Rajan. Roy surrenders to Chaddha and is taken to Mumbai to Vikram. Rehan then hoodwinks Chaddha at the Mumbai airport and escapes before Vikram can take him into custody.

Rajan asks Roy to steal Prince Gamunu’s (Peter Muxka Manuel) touring A ruby ‘Red Sun’ and live with him while planning the operation. The Red Sun is also called the Kohinoor of Africa and is coming to India. The gem will be displayed in a museum called the Fortcrest Art Center. The gem is 314 Carats big and is worth more than Rs 500 Crores. Fortcrest has a state-of-the-art security system that is near impossible to defeat.

Additionally, Moosa is the only fence in town who can handle the sale of the stolen gem. Rehan demands a 50% share of the proceeds, or Rs 250 Crores, and indemnity for his father.

Vikram cannot understand why Rehan left the safety of Budapest to come to India. Rajan and Rehan check out the FortCrest center and learn about its laser security system that guards its most valuable treasures. Rehan knows that the laser system was designed in US Silicon Valley. He plans to hack the museum’s mainframe, which will reset the laser system. This will revert the system to its default setting, which means on US time. In India, during the day, the system will be activated and at night it would be dormant, as it is following the Pacific time zone, which is 12:30 hours behind.

To reset the system, they need the password from Jennifer Lobo, the head of the museum.

Roy meets Rajan’s wife Farah (Nikita Dutta), who is terribly afraid of Rajan. They become friends and Roy vows to save her from Rajan’s clutches. Rajan contacted Anees Moosa (Loitongbam Dorendra Singh), a gangster boss with whom he had a grudge in the past and planned to sell the gem to him and then split the bounty, but Roy found out about it.

Rehan and Farah get romantically involved.

Rehan works with Chunky to trigger the museum’s alarm at a specific time. He then wipes Lobo’s keyboard, and Lobo has to enter her password to silence the alarm. When Lobo leaves, Rehan picks the letters of the password from the keyboard. Even with the letters the password can have 15,62,275 combinations.

Rehan works with hacker Niki (Meenal Sahu) to hack into the museum’s server. Vikram finds out about the meeting, but by the time he arrives, Rehan and Nikki had left. Vikram finds a newspaper on which Rehan was trying password combinations and the paper had the photo of the Red Sun on it.

Vikram and his team realize that Roy is about to steal the Red Sun from a museum in Mumbai, so they let Roy enter the museum building on the day of the operation and try to arrest him on the spot. But Roy decides that the operation has failed and escapes from Vikram. Lobo had found a blind spot in the treasure room and had changed the frequency of oscillation of the CCTV cameras covering the room. Rehan noticed this change and aborts the heist. Nikki hacks into the security system to allow Rehan to escape before Vikram can capture him.

Roy asks Rajan to give him one more chance and plans to steal Red Sun from the plane when Prince Gamunu takes it abroad in continuation of his world tour. Roy tampers with the prince’s private plane, forcing the anxious prince to take a civilian flight. Chunky believes that Rehan is trying to fool Rajan again and Rajan slashes his throat.

Gamunu was taking the gem to London, to move it in the custody of MI5 and the British Museum. Rehan asks for Farah to be made part of the plan.

When Vikram finds that Gamunu is flying commercial, he realizes that Rehan’s real plan was to steal the Red Sun in the air. He deliberately sabotaged his attempt at FortCrest as it was impossible to steal it from the museum anyways. His failure was also part of his plan.

Roy, Rajan, Farah and Rajan’s muscle Salim (Shaji Chaudhary) boards the plane and threaten the captain to land the plane in Istanbul. Farah dresses as an air-hostess and poisons Gamunu’s drink, as a result of which he develops an acute pain in the abdomen. Rehan pretends to be a doctor, and says that Gamunu has appendicitis and asks for the plane to be landed at the nearest airport, which is Istanbul.

Salim had already abducted the captain’s family and force him to land the plane in the middle of the city and not at the airport. Vikram had already diverted forces to Istanbul as soon as he learned that the flight was diverted and he knew that Rehan would use an ambulance to transport the gem out of the plane.

The gem is placed inside a special vault in the cargo hold of the plane. Moosa sets up a temporary landing strip in the middle of the Istanbul Central Park.

Roy and Rajan successfully open the safe, get the gem, and escape through the tunnel after the plane lands. Vikram and the Turkish police failed in their pursuit. Rajan then hands the Red Sun to Moosa, who sells it to the identified the buyer.

At Rajan’s Istanbul mansion, Rajan plans to get rid of Roy, but Roy poisons and kills Salim. Roy reveals to Rajan that he had planned the entire operation and successfully replaced the Red Sun in private, allowing Moosa to get the fake one.

An angry Rajan fights with Roy but loses to him. When Moosa comes to the door, the frustrated Rajan blows up the house and dies together with Moosa. Roy got the real Red Sun, and asked Rajan to sign the charity hospital documents before his death, solving the financial problems of his father’s clinic.

Finally, Roy and Farah meet up to plan their next robbery, while Vikram continues to chase them.