- A woman gets an opportunity to save the life of a 12-year old boy who witnessed a death during a thunderstorm which happened 25 years ago, by getting connected through the television set during a similar storm in the present.
- In the 1990s, during a wild thunderstorm night, 12-year-old Anay dies in a road accident shortly after he sees his next-door neighbor committing a crime. Twenty-five years later, in a strange turn of events, on an identical stormy night, Antara finds herself in front of a TV set through which she attempts to save Anay's life but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.—themoviedb
- 1996 a huge storm strikes Pune's Hinjewadi region Anay a 10-12 year old boy lives with his single mother and tries to communicate with his father by recording videos for him on video recorder connected to his television.The same stormy night Anay notices that things are not right in house of his neighbor and goes to see it and finds dead body of the owners wife while trying to elope he is knocked down by a vehicle leading to his death.25 years later in 2021 Antara shifts to the same house with her husband Vikas and daughter Avanti while settling down they come across old television set of Anay and see his video where their friend and neighbor Abhisheik tells them the tale of Anay and that he was his good friend.The same night is similar to stormy night which happened 25 years ago and Antara puts on the television where she and Anay start communicating with each other and asks him not to go his neighbors house or else he will be killed and she knows it as she is from future.But next day when Antara gets up she finds herself at an unknown location and that things have completely changed in her life and she is Dr Antara Vashisht , Vikas is not her husband and Avanti does not exist.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
- As a geomagnetic storm rages over Pune, 12-year old, Anay is using his camcorder to create a home-movie for his absent father. He hears a fight break out from the house next door, and while investigating is struck down in a road accident. 25 years later, Antara moves into the house with her husband and young daughter. The family discovers Anay's old camcorder and television set and is curious about the boy who once lived in their house. When another storm looms over the household, Antara looks into the TV screen and sees young Anay on very night he is fated to die. Across the years they are able to speak to each other. The time is 2:12, and what she tells him will change both their futures.—L. Hamre
- In the year 2021, a young nurse named Antara Awasthi (Taapsee Pannu) and her husband Vikas (Rahul Bhat) chance upon an old camera, television and cassettes in their home in Hinjewadi, Pune. They have a daughter named Avanti (Myra Rajpal). Vikas works as the procurement manager in a hotel. Antara works for Dr. Sethupathi (Nassar) at a hospital. Antara and Vikas have recently moved next door to Sheela (Himanshi Choudhry) and are hosting a house warming party that night. Antara wants a divorce from Vikas.
When they plug in these devices out of curiosity, they see a boy on their screen. The couple soon learn from a friend that he is an earlier occupant of the house called Anay (Pavail Gulati), that he witnessed a murder in 1996 and while trying to escape the killer, was killed himself. Vikas and Antara are staying in the same house that Anay used to stay in in 1996. The murder took place in the house next door and is abandoned now. Abhishek (Sukant Goel) is Sheela's son, and Anay's good friend. Abhishek is now an airline pilot and lives with Sheela after the death of both his parents.
In 1996: Anay's mother was an architect who was designing a new hospital in 1996. Anay's parents are separated. Anay's bedroom window looked directly into the bedroom window of the house next door. That night in 1996, Anay was recording a message on his camcorder for his father, when he heard noises coming from the next-door window. He witnesses their next door neighbor Raja Ghosh (Saswata Chatterjee) having a fight with his wife Rutuja (Medini Kelamane). Anay could not get his mother to wake up and goes to investigate himself and finds blood marks all over the place. Raja confronts Anay, who runs out into the street and is run over by a fire brigade. Raja was eventually convicted after he admitted to the murder in court (and even disclosed the location of the body) and sentenced to 14 years in prison for murdering his wife. Raja kills himself in jail.
Back in the present. Shortly thereafter, on a stormy night just like the one on which Anay died, Antara slips through a crack in the time and space continuum, coming face to face with the child moments before his death. While communicating with Anay, she ends up altering his life. Antara convinces Anay that she is from the future (she works at the Blue Cross hospital) and tells him not to go out of the house. Anay survives.
In 1996: Anay tells his mother how a woman on his TV saved his life. His mother never believes Anay. The next night, Anay sees Raja speak to an unknown woman (presumably Sheela), asking her to stay away from the house. Anay's mother sees Raja dig a hole in his backyard (presumably to bury the dead body from the previous night). The night after, Anay breaks into Raja's house, when he is out and finds a dead body inside. Before Anay can exit, Raja comes back and Anay watches him chop the body into pieces. Anay's mother watches him stuff 4 plastic bags into the trunk of his car and taking the car out and washing the car the next day. Anay and his mother go to the police to complain against Raja, but nobody believes him.
In 2021: The 2nd time-line: Antara then wakes up to find that her own life as she remembered it has been erased, she is not married to Vikas, their daughter does not exist, and she is a skilled neurosurgeon. Antara files a police complaint for a missing Avanti, which is investigated by Inspector Anay Anand (Pavail Gulati). Antara is frantic but cannot produce single evidence to back her story. There is no evidence that Avanti existed and Vikas refuses to recognize Antara. Vikas is married to Bhavna (Nidhi Singh). Vikas says that Antara performed brain surgery on him and saved his life. Antara figures that Vikas is cheating on Bhavna with hotel receptionist Sarah Kunder (Madhurima Roy).
Antara realizes that she has the power to figure out a person's history simply by touching them. Antara realizes that saving Anay has somehow changed her life. Dr Sethupathi says that 2 months ago Antara operated on a girl named Avantika who had brain tumor. The girl didn't survive surgery, and this impacted Antara badly. Antara visits all the places from her life and finds that Raja is now living with Sheela, and Abhishek. Abhishek is not a pilot and owns a cafe and a bookstore. When Antara narrates her story to Abhishek, he says that the plot matches the book titled 2:12.
Abhishek says that even Anay used to tell the same story that a time portal used to open at 2:12 am, the time at which he was supposed to die, but didn't. Anay told the police that Raja killed his wife, but nobody believed him. He sat in front of the TV for several years at 2:12 am waiting for the mystery woman to return. Anay was admitted into therapy and his therapist wrote the book 2:12. Anay left town with his mother and never returned.
The police inspector picks up Antara and Antara says that Raja is a free man since Rutuja's body was not discovered. But in the original time-line, Raja had admitted to the murder in court and had told the court that the body was in the spray pond of his factory. The body is discovered, and Raja is taken into custody in the 2nd time-line. Sheela testifies to Inspector Anay that in 1996, after the death of her husband, Raja used to help her, but Rutuja did not like that. Rutuja was unkind to Raja and almost pushed Raja towards Sheela, who was kind. One day Rutuja claimed to go to her mother's house, and Raja invites Sheela home. Rutuja was waiting for this and enters the house to find Raja and Sheela together. Rutuja attacked Sheela with a knife. Raja took the knife and gave it to Sheela, who was holding it when Rutuja fell on the knife in the melee and was stabbed and killed. Sheela and Raja claim that it was an accident. Sheela was worried about Abhishek, and hence Raja never reported the matter to the police.
Antara knows that the portal is only open for one more night (since the storm lasted for 3 days only). She wants to find Anay. She wants to know who bought the house when Anay and his mother left town. In the 2nd time-line, Antara woke up in a house named "Shikha Vats". Vikas purchased that house 2 years ago. Antara finds Vikas in bed with Sarah at the hotel and wants the details of who sold the house to him.
Inspector Anay reveals to Raja and Sheela that he is in fact the same boy Anay. Anay knew that Antara worked at the Blue Cross hospital in the future and waited for her there. And one day he saw Antara enter the hospital with Sethupathi. The same Antara revealed where Rutuja's body is buried.
Vikas takes Antara to meet Shikha Vats. Antara realizes that Shikha Vats in Anay's mother and that Antara has been Anay's girlfriend for the last 5 years. Antara confronts Anay who says that he is madly in love with her, but he realized that she has forgotten all about him in a single night. He says that he met Antara outside the Blue Cross hospital and they started dating. Anay wanted the answers of his life, but he realized that his Antara did not know anything about the past.
Antara says that this is not her Universe. In her parallel Universe, she is Avanti's mom and she only wants to go back to that Universe. Antara realizes that she does not have a way to go back to her Universe and steps in front of a speeding car and kills herself.
Anay rushes back home to find his old TV and Camcorder and connects with his own self in 1996 at 2:12 am. This time Anay's mother from 1996 also sees Anay and her own future self in 2021. 2021 Anay tells the 1996 Anay not to wait for Antara and to forget her.
3rd Timeline: 2021, and Antara is back with Avanti. Antara leaves Vikas and kicks him out of the house. Raja lives with Sheela and Abhishek. Antara again helps the police to find Rutuja's body, but this time Inspector Anay does not recognize Antara.
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