Plot
2017: Gaurav Kapoor, a software engineer working at a software firm in suburban Miami, plans to marry his friend Kavya, but she prefers a man with an adventurous and risk-loving nature. Gaurav tries to ask Kavya on a date and also meets her parents, who consider Gaurav as a potential groom for Kavya. Meanwhile, Gaurav is ordered by his boss to visit Mumbai to close a business deal. However, it appears that Gaurav may have something to do with Rishi Purohit, who looks exactly like Gaurav. It is finally revealed that Gaurav is actually Rishi.
2012: Rishi, a clandestine spy, works for a espionage organization Unit X, which is headed by his superior Colonel Vijay Saxena as ((Suniel Shetty)). Rishi and his team attempt to extract intelligence from the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok. While escaping, Yakub, a teammate, shoots down an innocent civilian, which enrages Rishi. Rishi returns to Mumbai, where he talks to Vijay Saxena about retiring from the world of espionage. Vijay Saxena asks him to perform one last job for him and this involves spying on Mishra, the Defense Secretary of India, whom Vijay Saxena claims Mishra to be a corrupt and ruthless and fraudulent and lousy man. Vijay Saxena wants to copy data from Mishra's cellphone into a hard drive.
Rishi manages to save information to the hard drive and later meets Gaurav, a database manager working in a weapon manufacturing company Norcorp, in Miami. Gaurav and Rishi retrieves the important data about Mishra's connections. Gaurav is later shot to immediate death by Yakub in order to eliminate evidence. Vijay Saxena, having decided that he cannot let Rishi loose, instructs Yakub through a text message to kill him. Rishi senses the suspicion and fights off Yakub and the other agents. Yakub manages to shoot Rishi, but Rishi manages to escape, eventually adopts Gaurav's identity and goes to Miami for a peaceful life.
2017: After being unintentionally recorded in a viral video and recognised by the members of Unit X, Rishi is soon attacked by Koko, an associate of Unit X's local contact Jignesh. He is forced to abduct and hide Koko in his car, which is noticed by his friend Dixit, who tries to help him and unintentionally kills Koko in the struggle. Yakub and the other Unit X agents track Rishi down and confront him, where Rishi finally confesses that he needed a peaceful life and reveals to Yakub that the hard drive was unintentionally destroyed by Yakub himself when he had tried to kill Rishi earlier.
Rishi is knocked down unconscious and soon finds himself handcuffed with Kavya, who had stopped by his house. Rishi uses his skills to escape with Kavya from the trouble and ends up confessing to her about his past profession. Kavya berates Rishi, but later forgives him. Later that night, Yakub and his team finds Rishi and Kavya at the motel they are hiding in. Rishi reveals to Yakub that the data actually contains Norcorp's illegal financial transactions with Indian politicians and also had information about Vijay Saxena's unlawful activities. Gaurav had learnt about this and hatched a deal with Mishra to sell the data in exchange for money.
Yakub tells Rishi to extract the data on Norcorp servers and give it to him, in exchange for leaving him and Kavya. Rishi manages to extract the data, but the security guards notices and begin chasing Rishi. Yakub aborts the operation and abandons him. However, Rishi manages to escape with Kavya's help. Yakub and his team meets Rishi at his house, where Rishi kills most of Yakub's henchmen with the help of Kavya. However, Rishi spares Yakub and two of his thugs and orders him to leave his house.
Driving away in Rishi's car, Yakub realises that the hard drive Rishi gave is blank and the car's trunk contains Koko's corpse. Working with Rishi, Dixit crashes into their car in a side collision, where the police arrive on the scene and discover the body. Yakub and the agents are killed by the cops. Vijay Saxena visits Rishi's house to confront him, but dies in an bomb blast planned by Rishi. Rishi provides the data to the NSC and Unit X gets neutralised. Rishi and Kavya soon leave Miami with new identities of Hemanth Khanna and Pooja Khanna.
In the mid-credits scene, Dixit buys machine guns from a local gun store in Miami, before putting on a hoodie and walking away.
Reception
Nihit Bhave of The Times of India gave 3.5/5 stars and concluded "The film would have been a perfect entertainer had it held its cards closer to its chest. However, it still has plenty bang for your buck." [12] Sweta Kaushal of Hindustan Times gave 3/5 stars and concluded "A Gentleman is not a flawless film... but Raj and DK have managed to narrate the plain and full-of-cliches story in their own quirky style and their dialogues and the screenplay make it fun to watch." [13]
Kunal Guha of Mumbai Mirror gave 3/5 stars and wrote "Directors Raj and DK, who have previous helmed Shor in the City and Go Goa Gone , have put together this offering which packs in comedy, action and everything else, yet doesn’t entirely fit into the ‘masala’ construct. The film is worth the price of a multiplex ticket." [14] Rachit Gupta of Filmfare gave 3/5 stars and wrote "There isn’t a single serious bone in the A Gentleman framework. This outlandish action comedy draws its kicks from slick action and quirky dialogue. Smart writing and slick execution save this fickle film." [15]
Samrudhi Ghosh of India Today gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "A Gentleman makes for an entertaining watch. If a not-too-serious, masala film is your ideal weekend watch, then this film does not disappoint." [16] Bollywood Hungama gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "On the whole, A Gentleman surprises audience with the developments in the first half but the film goes downhill in the second half completely. Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK’s screenplay handles the complex narrative well in the first half but overall, it could have been better and more sensible." [17]
Rohit Bhatnagar of Deccan Chronicle wrote "A Gentleman is definitely an entertaining film which has its own set of loopholes but they can be easily overlooked. Watch it this weekend for a fun and edgy film." [18] Udita Jhunjhunwala of Firstpost wrote "The comic parts of A Gentleman score over the action and as an action-comedy is falls short of taking any real risks." [19]
