Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty is an action thriller film written and directed by A.R. Murugadoss, and produced by Vipul Shah. It features Akshay Kumar as Virat Bakshi, the Captain in D.I.A., a wing of Indian Army and Sonakshi Sinha as Saiba, a boxer, in lead roles.
The movie also stars Govinda as Virat Bakshi's Senior Commanding Officer and others in their respective roles.
Captain Virat Bakshi, an army man comes back home to Mumbai for his holidays. His family takes him to see a bride, and he feels the girl, played by Sonakshi, is too soft and an introvert. Later in another occasion, he finds out that she is actually a boxer and is surprised by her personality. Having a police man friend, and the love he develops for this girl, the film revolves around the fun that happens among the three. Until at one point, an anti social activity in the heart of Mumbai city gets him involved into something huge.
Virat Bakshi, being a patriot and a special agent in the Indian Army, is dragged into a huge network of terrorism. The rest of the story is about him fighting against the wittiest of Terror head, and how he swipes out the city of Mumbai from Sleeper cells. The film ends with a dedication to the Indian Army.
'Holiday' is an official remake of a 2012 Tamil film Thuppakki that starred Vijay and Kajal Agarwal in lead roles which was also directed by A. R. Murugadoss. It is scheduled to release on 6th June 2014.