A team of selective officers is given a five year mission termed 'BABY'. They undergo covert operations to hunt down and kill terrorists. One such dare devil officer is Ajay (Akshay Kumar). The movie is a story of their last mission in this 5 year plan. Alongside Ajay are other officers played by Rana Daggubati and Tapsee Pannu who join him on his operations. The head of this intelligence is Feroze (Danny Denzongpa) and it is he who narrates the entire mission.

When was the last time a movie stubbornly stopped your thoughts from wandering even for a fraction of a second? 'Baby' keeps you not only riveted but also with your heart permanently stuck in your mouth, through its duration of two and half plus hours. That's one of director Neeraj Pandey's biggest achievements. And the other is, tackling of an extremely sensitive subject of terrorism filtering from Pakistan with absolutely no prejudgement and more importantly, without glossing over certain uncomfortable truths. The film subtly drives home the fact that terrorism has no specific religion or region.'

Post the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai a team of special officers is formed and they are assigned mission 'BABY'. The job is to find and eliminate terrorists who are planning attacks in various cities in India. Ajay (Akshay Kumar) the cool and deadly officer of the department leads the mission and cracks down each and every bad guy one by one, sometimes even achieves the impossible with no planning or preparation.

Rakesh, an Indian counter-intelligence officer, has been double crossed, and is captured by terrorists, somewhere in Istanbul. A bunch of six or seven toughies take turns to slap him, punch him in the face. They torture him. There is lot of blood on his face. His eyes are swollen. But when he spits, there is no trace of blood.

A central minister's smug personal secretary unthinkingly belittles the sacrifices of India's brave spies. As his boss looks on, the protagonist, an undercover agent who revels in playing with danger, gets up from his seat, walks up to the door, shuts it, walks back to the impertinent official and slaps him. The act sums up this film's firm belief that the 'heroism' of the violent 'patriot' is not to be trifled with.

While 'Baby' is a long film (2 hours 40 minutes), the director seems to wield his craft with admirable restraint. He has weaved an engaging tale that rarely loosens its grip on the viewer. A taut script has always been Neeraj Pandey's forte and 'Baby' doesn't waste time sermonizing: neither trying to wage an all-encompassing debate on global terrorism, nor painting all Muslims with the same brush. The perpetrators of terror are the villains here and the community they belong to is just...coincidental.

A top-secret counter-espionage team 'Baby' is born after 26/11. Its officers, led by Ajay Singh (Akshay), have no official records or responsibilities - except to thwart terror attacks. If caught, the government maintains 'plausible deniability' about them. But meanwhile, the trial-basis unit battles threats from Pakistan, within India and multiple global locations. Can 'Baby' bite the bad guys hard enough?

Rarely you come across an Indian movie that doesn't hit a single false note. BABY is one such film. Writer-Director Neeraj Pandey has made a brilliant film that is not only technically at par with the best in the world, but it's also a dispassionate non-judgmental take on terrorism that's completely devoid of jingoism and is extremely gripping. Full marks to Producer Bhushan Kumar for believing in such a landmark film, backed by exceptional marketing especially when it's devoid of songs.

'Baby' is a perfect vehicle for the times we live in: it gives us a home-spun hero who allows himself to be hurt but is invincible, and an enemy who is the easiest to demonise. The film is as simplistic as its title - Us vs Them, and no prizes for guessing who will win. In a messy world, where each action can have an equal and opposite reaction, what is the point of complexity?