[5] Jyoti, an Indian woman lands in Mosul to take up a new job as supervisor in a garments factory.

There, she is imprisoned in a small room, where she meets two young girls, Mahira and Afra who are also sex slaves of Assad.

Hearing the gunshot, his guards come to his room to enquire, when the door opens and Jyoti comes out with Assad as hostage with the gun pointed to his head.

They reach an Iraqi army checkpoint, where the local commander takes them to his home where his wife gives them food.

But they are saved in the nick of time when they reach a Peshmerga outpost where a sniper kills the ISIS soldiers and they are taken to a UN refugee camp.

In the refugee camp, the two girls meet their uncle who is a Peshmerga commander, and he promises to help her get back to India.

At the rooftop, Raafiq, purportedly now a member of ISIS, turns up and tells her he will help her get to the aircraft by shutting off the airport lights, whereby she can get to it under the cover of darkness.

[10] Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express rated the film 1/5 and wrote "This Nushrratt Bharuccha-starrer makes for a tiring watch, where all you do is wonder how we are meant to swallow the going-ons on screen.

"[11] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave the film 1.5/5 and wrote "This tale of a woman cornered and fighting for dear life had the potential to be a thrilling, edge-of-the-seat ripsnorter.

"[12] Lachmi Deb Roy of Firstpost gave it a rating of 2.5 out of 5, and wrote "Akelli could have been a good story on human resilience, but what I felt was the film failed because of the inconsistent script and because of the under-experience of debutant filmmaker Pranay Meshram.

"[13] Mayur Sanap of Rediff.com rated 1.5/5 stars and observed "What could have been an immensely compelling survival drama is reduced to the pretty-girl-in-peril thriller.