Akira is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film co-written, produced and directed by A. R. Murugadoss.

It is a remake of the 2011 Tamil-language film Mouna Guru,[5] and features Sonakshi Sinha, Konkana Sen Sharma and Anurag Kashyap in the lead roles.

Akira Sharma, a young girl, witnesses a group of men throwing acid on a woman's face.

She helps the police catch one of the criminals and is therefore harassed by the accused, who slashes her face out of revenge, giving her a scar.

She joins a college and begins living in a hostel, where she finds it difficult to adjust to normal life.

A couple of days later, Rane goes to help a car crash victim but robs and kills him, when he finds loot in his trunk.

Akira finds a bag full of stolen items, including the camera, in front of her dorm.

She is taken away to a mental asylum, and, with the help of a corrupt doctor, they give her electric shocks to drive her insane.

Rabiya, with an arrest-warrant for Rane, arrives and seizes all the arms but is stopped by the Commissioner, as the car-crash victim was the brother of a major politician – something which will lead to riots if the news of his murder breaks out.

Akira easily kills Rane and his associates in hand-to-hand combat and then goes back to the mental asylum.

[9] Anupama Chopra giving the film 2.5/5, praised the performances of Sinha, Kashyap and Sharma, but criticised the second half.

She, however, praised Kashyap's portrayal of Rane, calling it the "best-written character" whose "drug-addled brain is never so clouded as to make him lose sight of his self-interest.