In a high school, where the girl — Avantika, sporting a bloody lip — is being disciplined by a teacher for fighting again.

"You morons! ... I told u not to fool around picking fights, didn't I?" the PE teacher said.

"And shouldn't u at least get some offense in, before getting beat up like this?" he added to her opponent.

Hilariously, it turns out her opponent is not only in worse condition than her, but there are three of them... all boys... who are black belts in taekwondo. 

Avantika sets the teacher straight....     The boys picked the fight, and cowardly threw a rock at her. She'd fought back after they'd mocked her and her fish-restaurant-owner mother — for smelling like bad fish. .... But it's no use trying to reason with the prejudiced teacher, who says she's lying and tells her to beg forgiveness of the ringleader, who's the son of the chairman school board.

"Why should I apologize?" she asked.

"U still call urself a teacher, n don't even listen to ur students? ... Or maybe u only listen to the son of school board's chairman, .... and what a fish vendor's daughter says doesn't mean anything?" she voiced boldly.

Despite speaking the truth, Avantika looks around and sees everyone gossiping about her, and she's still the poor, sneered-upon outcast. .... The black belts smirk now that they're back in power, and she clenches her fist angrily...and throws the boys out of the room.  Literally!

The teacher blusters that she's kicked out, but far from being cowed, Avantika stares at him with such fierceness that he's unnerved into shutting up...

She asks, "Did you ever even consider me a student?"

As she saunters off, she flips everyone the finger, tossing out, "Goodbye, losers."

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At some unknown place, in Bangkok

In some creepy-looking lab, a woman lies on the table, whimpering in pain and begging for mercy. ... But the mad scientists continue their twisted experiment, which involves a glass vial containing some sort of liquid mixture.

"That'll do" he said holding the vial n smirking.

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At the fish restaurant, Mom (name Ishana) watches the news with a frequent guest, a middle-aged fit man, Sohel. The T.V. report is of shooting, yet another in a recent string of them.

Avantika storms past them and heads to her room. ... Ishana sees that she's been fighting again and tries to soothe Avantika's hurt, but her words have no effect.

At Ishana's rebuke about fighting, Avantika reminds her that Mom was the one who taught her to fight, insisting despite Avantika's protests.

"that was only for self-defense, I never told u to pick fights." her mom replied.

"So, should they provoke u again, just run away without fighting, all right?" she added.

Simmering with hurt and anger, Avantika lashes out at Mom and vows not to live as pathetically as she does... Rather than get angry, Ishana sighs to herself, as though knowing she can't argue with her daughter on that score.

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At the dock, a detective, Suraj Thakur, settles in for a long stakeout with an assistant/informant, Muna. Thakur is here to catch smugglers in the act of importing drugs from China.

A group of 5 teenagers walks by, and Muna calls out to Avantika, being vaguely acquainted with her. She ignores him and continues on with her group of delinquent buddies. They congratulate her on dropping out of school and present her with a gift, and she finds a long neck chain, the string of metal beads.

The teens look over at sudden activity down the street, watching trucks being loaded with crates by Chini(Chinese) men. ... The boys get up and decide to cause trouble, operating on pure testosterone and racism. The leader of her group tells the workers to go back to their country, ignoring Avantika's urging to back off.

Things escalate when one of them grabs a Chini man and screams in his face — n in turn,  gets knifed in the arm. The other Chini workers join in with knives n machetes and approach menacingly, and it becomes clear that the foolish boys picked the wrong fight.

One teen barely misses getting a machete to the face when quick-thinking Avantika uses her chain as a whip to deflect the blade. She fights fiercely, probably better than anyone there, and takes down a few attackers.

Having dozed off mid-stakeout, Detective Suraj Thakur wakes up to find the confused-fight in full swing and steps in to break up the fight. Nice of him to jump in when the fight's already over.

"Everyone stop" he said pointing a gun towards them.

"Shit! the hell am I supposed to do if they find out it's a gas pistol?.... It's alright. What do they know anyway? ... Suraj Thakur. Fighting! Fighting!!" he muttered.

He hilariously mutters to himself nervously to go with the bluff. Even more amusing is how he overcompensates by blustering about all the criminals he's shot with his big, bad, bullet-shooting, totally-not-gas gun.

But as he's rambling, a new figure suddenly appears, carrying a metal briefcase and a totally real, bullet-shooting gun. He opens fire without warning, shooting them one by one.

where did he come from?  No one noticed all of a sudden.

He's efficient and fast, like the Terminator. Which is supposed, he is! It's like shooting fish in a barrel for him — no mercy, no discrimination between drug runner or scared teenager.

At the end of the ambush massacre, only Avantika and cop Suraj Thakur are left alive, because they'd managed to hide out of sight.

The Terminator turns his attention to the crate of smuggled munitions(military guns), paying particular attention to a vial containing a liquid; the same one we saw being prepared by the mad scientist.

Just then, Terminator man hears a sound and finds that there's a third survivor, one of Avantika's friends, Harsh.

He's about to shoot him in the head — but Avantika leaps out of the shadows and flings her metal rope around the assassin's neck.  The Terminator drops his vial of chemical juice, and Harsh grabs it and beats the man with the shaft, earning the two teens enough time to run away.

By the time not-so-fearless cop Thakur finally stops cowering and comes out of hiding, the ground is strewn with dead bodies.

Another gunfight mystery in the string of recent news shootings.

Both teenagers are shaking so hard they can barely talk straight, ...  Avantika instructs Harsh to go home and not speak a word of this to anyone. She takes the mystery vial from him and shoves it aside, leaving it behind as the two split up....

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The cops descend on the crime scene, and now that the danger's over, Suraj Thakur's bravado is back in full force. He speculates to his chief that Damodar is behind this, and must have added black-market arms trade to his existing list of drug crimes.

Since Damodar is a big fish, the chief tells Suraj,  the worst detective in the crime division — to take a backseat. Suraj protests, wanting to prove himself n decides that he's still got a lead in pursuing the investigation: his informant Muna, and that girl Avantika.

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Going home hasn't diminished Avantika's panic, so she calls her friend Harsh and says she wants to go to the police. ... He agrees to meet her at the station, and she finds him outside when she arrives... with a bullet in the head.

Just then, she gets a phone call from home and answers, expecting Mom, only to get an unfamiliar voice on the line.

"Shouldn't students be home at this hour?"

"Who r u? ... n my mother?"

"Taking her with me. I suggest u do as u r told. ...  Go tell the cops n ur mom dies. ... Just bring us the good u found today."

"What goods r u talking about?"

"The aluminum Vial. .... Already forgot?"

"Who is it?... Who r u? .... What u did to my mom? ...... Did u cause that to Harsh? Why? ... "

"Hello!... Mom... Hello??"

The sinister-sounding man tells her that if she wants her Mom back alive, she'd better keep her mouth shut and do as he says: Terminator man wants his stolen tube back.

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Ishana is dragged off by gangsters, not knowing what they want with her but recognizing that they're dragging her daughter into this somehow.

Just then, friendly guest, Sohel comes upon the scene and asks what's going on, worriedly checking that Ishana is okay.

And then, out of nowhere, the mild-mannered Sohel busts out with some major fighting skills, taking down all the gangsters with ease, breaking arms and flipping bodies.

He finds a business card in one thug's wallet bearing the name of Mirae Construction.  He insists that Ishana leave with him right away. She refuses, insisting Avantika will be coming, so he knocks her out with a pressure point and carries her away.

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Avantika retraces her steps to find the discarded chemical tube where she dropped it, n on getting that vial, rushes to her ransacked home, shouting for Mom. ....  Instead, she finds a message left by the kidnappers: a flyer for a sweety massage parlor, with a note, 'Bring us the goods' on it.

Thakur had arrived at Avantika's home just moments before she did, and now he sneaks up on her and grabs her, demanding to know what her deal is. He assumes that she's involved, not believing her when she says she doesn't know anything.

She sobs and begs for him to save her mother, but he just cares about his case and tries to cuff her.
Instead, he finds himself whirled around and cuffed to a table as Avantika darts off. ...

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Now for our villain.

These two look remarkably normal, like any white-collar executives, only we're tipped off to their illegal activities as the boss, Chairman Kanish Saksena, asks Manager Mini about the status of the drugs.

Ah, so that's what's inside the all-important vial.

Manager Mini reports that the girl who took them is Ishana's daughter, and it's clear that Mom's name means something to them.....

Furthermore, Manager Mini reports that Sohel was also sighted, and assures her boss that she'll take care of it.

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Sohel drives all night .... arrives with Ishana at an isolated house in rural surroundings. She wakes up and tries to leave, but Sohel holds her back, warning her...

"It's him."

She knows instantly who he means, but her hysteria mounts as she insists on going back for Avantika, saying...

" 'he' can't find out about her daughter's existence or whereabouts. "

She cries, "If she dies, so do I!"

As a compromise, Sohel promises to bring her daughter to her and orders her to stay put because no matter what, she can't go back out there and risk being tracked down.

Manager Mini calls our mysterious crime boss, Damodar(Damo), to check in on the situation. Although Damo is the ruler of his own cabal, he works for the Chairman's organization and Manager Mini reminds him...

" you'd better take care of this job properly, because 'the item' is important to Chairman Kanish."

Damodar has photos of the drug pickup gone awry, which include pictures of Avantika fighting. He tells his underlings to find her.

Three of Damo's Chini subcontractors arrive, terrified of him but also outraged at losing six of their own in the botched job. Damo isn't a man to tolerate mutiny, and he motions his henchmen to take care of them. They fight, which is really more like slaughter.

 Flashback to 17 years ago:

Ishana had just given birth to Avantika. Sohel had worked under Chairman Kanish and finally stood up to his boss, protesting whatever it was the Chairman intended on doing to the baby....

Chairman Kanish had told him, "It's my woman and my child."

It seems like an open secret that Sohel was in love with Ishana, despite her being his boss's woman....  Sohel had been given orders to head to Italy, ostensibly on a mission but really just to get him out of the way.

Frustrated, Sohel had told Manager Mini — then in her rookie years — that he didn't know he'd be doing this kind of work when he signed up, and that she should quit..... He'd been the one to bring her into the organization and now calls that his biggest mistake.

It seems more one-sided love is in the equation, this time on her part, and she asks what's so great about Ishana...

Sohel replies "She is special enough to put my life on the life for her sake."

Sohel had grabbed Ishana, who'd resisted and been in denial about the Chairman... But Sohel had warned her that she'd be in danger, and Avantika as well, and had to fight his own teammates to leave....

Whatever organization this is, it's so tightly monitored that the members aren't allowed out of the building without approval...

Back in the present day:

Avantika finds the erotic massage parlor and bursts in, going from room to room until she finds the manager, who assumes she's here for a job. ... She thrusts the drug vial at him, and his attitude changes... ...  He plays along, then reaches for a switchblade to threaten her with it.

Avantika is too wound up to equivocate around with a middle manager acting on a puffed-up ego, so she busts out her metal beads and gains the upper hand....

She demands to know where Mom is, and the now-sniveling manager stutters that the kidnappers are on their way and that the boss will know where Mom is... ... She thrusts the blade into his leg to get the name of the boss: Damodar.

Damo's mob arrives, and Avantika grabs the tube and bails, jumping out of the second-story window just in time for the scarred leader to see her landing on a trash heap and running away.

It's not long before the men find her and surround her. She clutches her beads, preparing to fight — but thankfully doesn't have to, because Sohel pulls up in his truck and urges her in...

Avantika's startled — meek, unassuming man, here? — but scrambles inside, dropping her cell phone in her getaway...

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But when they arrive at the house, Mom's not there. While she was waiting, Ishana had received a text from Avantika's phone asking her to come to get her.

Ishana arrives at the appointed location, smile fading when she sees Scarface instead of Avantika. He gloats  "ur daughter will surely come looking for u now, won't she?"

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Racking their brains for a lead, Avantika and Sohel go in search of the one person who might know something about Damodar:.... informant Muna. He complains about the constant harassment, having just been pumped for info by detective Thakur.

Operating on Muna's tip, Thakur arrives at an abandoned warehouse as minions drag Ishana in, and he calls for backup.

She is brought before Damodar, who lords over his clan in brocade and eyeliner like a glam-loving vampire. Make that a Scripture-spouting vampire, who reads from the Bible and carries out crimes with no sense of irony. In fact, he uses his twisted sense of logic to explain how religion supported his beating of an old grandma. 

So... psychopath!...

Also on the move is Manager Mini, who doesn't seem to trust Damodar to get this done on his own. She directs her own team of agents.

Sohel pulls up to the warehouse and intends to go in alone, but hot-headed Avantika jumps out of the car before he can stop her.... She runs ahead, and Sohel chases after her.

He's interrupted by Thakur, who tries to apprehend him at gunpoint and demands to know Damodar's whereabouts. Too bad for the bumbling cop, Sohel easily disarms him and cuffs him to the railing...

Minions arrive on the scene to challenge Sohel, but he has mad fighting skills and coldly takes them down. ...Thakur cowers and tries to become invisible....

Elsewhere in the complex, Scarface and two minions move out. The two are easily neutralized by Avantika, who staggers into view to confront Scarface.... She in school uniform wounded face, blood oozing out of her head, her shaky breathing audible as she clutches a string of metal beads in a bloody fist.

"Who is Damodar ?" she demanded.

She's trembling with rage, not fear, and she screams...

"Give me my mom!"

Scarface tells "ur Mom's doing just fine ... except for a couple of little bruise here and there, I guess. — nor I will kill u, just a few fractures here n there"

"But I will" she told with red eyes...

Avantika vows to kill him and charges, her chain flailing... But her blows are ineffectual against his bulk, and he lands a solid blow to her gut with his sledgehammer... She goes down gasping.

She comes back, and while he's got mass and power... she's nimble and dodges every blow. ... She lands a few kicks on him that sent him reeling, but ultimately he's too strong for her and grabs her by the throat, then kicks her in the gut.

She's pretty injured, and he raises his sledgehammer for the deathblow ......and then gets kicked aside by Sohel.

Now, this is a more even fight, and the two men go at it, allowing Avantika to stagger onward. Sohel dispatches the guy quickly, moving so fast that Scarface doesn't even have a chance to react before he's stabbed a half-dozen times by his own knife....

Avantika's barely hanging in there by the time she makes it to the inner sanctum, where she sees Mom and blindly charges ahead. That makes her an easy target for the two minions standing watch, who take her down with their blades.

Damodar asks "Did u bring the goods?"    she produces the vial, which he takes.

"Let her go now. u got what u wanted!.... So, let Avantika go... I'm begging u... please. I'll give u everything I have... even my own body... leave her..."

Mom begs Damodar to set Avantika free now that he has everything he wants. His men step back, so Mom takes it as tacit approval and gathers her daughter to take her away.

But no, it's not approval.

Damo approaches silently from behind...  stabs Mom right through the core.

Avantika doesn't realize right away what's happened... until she looks down and sees the sword sticking out of her mother's chest....

Damodar quotes Scripture while Avantika sobs, ... and Mom uses her last breath to tell her not to worry, n ...

"My pretty little girl. ... u know that Mom loves u, don't u? Don't worry. I'll always be by ur side."

Damo turns to leave — Avantika's free to go, sans Mom — but she screams after him furiously. "Stop there u bastard"

Wordlessly he turns back, pulls out a gun, and shoots Avantika in the gut...

Without batting an eye... Bleeding and fading, Avantika gasps on the ground, reaching out for Mom's hand. ...The world grows dark, and she falls unconscious...

Manager Mini arrives with her team, and sees the two bodies prone on the ground, standing over them with a stoic expression...

Sohel arrives moments later... face twisting in grief to see mother and daughter lying in their own blood.

But all's not lost, because as the camera pans over, it catches the briefest flicker of life in her fingers....