Madras Café is an action thriller movie that recalls the drastic assassination of slain leader and late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The story revolves around Major Vikram Singh (John Abraham), an Indian army officer who visits Sri Lanka on a secret mission to resolve a rebel group. While on the mission, he meets a passionate journalist Jaya Sahni (Nargis Fakhri) and tries to find out a way to stop the rebels. However, he finds himself stuck in the civil war and the conspiracy to kill the former Prime Minister of India.