Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language action thriller directed and written by A. R. Murugadoss, starring Akshay Kumar as a military officer. The film also features Sonakshi Sinha, Freddy Daruwala, Sumeet Raghavan, and a special appearance by Govinda. It is a remake of Murugadoss' 2012 Tamil film Thuppakki and follows an Indian Army officer who, while on vacation in Mumbai, embarks on a mission to track down the leader of a sleeper cell network and neutralize the sleeper agents operating under his command.

Akshay Kumar revealed that his production company, Hari Om Entertainment, decided to back the film after seeing the initial action sequence by Murugadoss before the script was finalized. Due to scheduling conflicts, Murugadoss made the film in Tamil first, and then the remake was announced. Production began in 2013 under the working title Gun and was produced by Hari Om Entertainment and Sunlight Pictures.

The film premiered worldwide on June 6, 2014, and was produced with a budget of ₹500 million. It received generally positive reviews from critics, particularly praising Kumar’s performance, the writing, and the action sequences. It became one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of 2014, with global earnings exceeding ₹178.4 crore.

At the Filmfare Awards, Kumar was nominated for Best Actor.

Plot Captain Virat Bakshi, part of the Indian Army’s secretive DIA unit, returns to Mumbai for a vacation. His parents urge him to meet Saiba Thapar, a potential match for him, but he dismisses her, believing she is too traditional. However, he soon discovers Saiba is an accomplished boxer and falls for her after watching her in a match.

While traveling with his friend, Sub-Inspector Mukund "Makhiya" Deshmukh, Virat witnesses a bomb explosion that kills innocent people. He captures the bomber, Ajmal Lateef, but the man escapes with the help of a corrupt police officer. Virat recaptures Ajmal and discovers a plot involving a series of attacks planned by a terrorist group with twelve sleeper agents, including Ajmal.

Virat learns that the attacks are scheduled on the day of his teammate Joel’s wedding, where many of his fellow officers will be present. He and his team work to track down and eliminate the terrorists before they can execute their plan.

The leader of the sleeper cells, whose brother Afsar Ali was also one of the agents, retaliates by killing Joel’s family and kidnapping relatives of the officers. Virat substitutes his younger sister Preeti for one of the kidnapped girls to infiltrate the terrorists’ hideout. With the help of his dog Rocky and his sister Pinky's dupatta, he rescues the hostages and kills the terrorists, including Asif Ali, the second-in-command.

When the sleeper cells' leader targets him directly, Virat sacrifices himself to set off a bomb at the terrorists' base, with Mukund and Joel following him via a tracking device. As he realizes the cars he drove were rigged with bombs, he fights the terrorist leader, dislocates his shoulder, but manages to escape. He then defeats the leader on a boat before the transport explodes. The film concludes with Virat forcing Alvin D'Souza, the Joint Defense Secretary and a member of the terrorist group, to commit suicide before returning to duty with his team.

Cast

• Akshay Kumar as Captain Virat Bakshi, DIA officer
• Sonakshi Sinha as Saiba Thapar, a boxer and Virat's love interest
• Govinda as Major Pratap Panikar, Virat's senior officer
• Freddy Daruwala as the leader of the sleeper cells
• Sumeet Raghavan as Sub-Inspector Mukund "Makhiya" Deshmukh
• Zakir Hussain as Alvin D'Souza, Joint Secretary of Defense
• Randheer Rai as Joel Singh, a soldier and friend
• Gireesh Sahdev as ACP Ashok Gaikwad
• Dipendra Sharma as Asif Ali, second-in-command of the sleeper cells
• Cherry Mardia as Preeti Bakshi, Virat's younger sister
• Apoorva Arora as Virat’s younger sister
• Indira Krishnan as Saiba’s mother
• Prayas Mann as Afsar Ali, sleeper cell leader’s brother
• Aarti Nagpal
• Athar Siddiqui as Army Officer
• Sourav Chakraborty
• Abhay Shukla
• Chirag Sethi as Siddharth, an Army officer
• Maroof Raza in a special appearance