Indian was released on 26 October 2001 with excellent box office reports, grossing a domestic net of ₹18 million on its opening day.

Rajashekhar arrests Waseem Khan, a dreaded terrorist having connections with industrialist Shankar Singhania, and learns that his father-in-law DGP Surya Pratap Singh is also involved with Waseem Khan.

Rajashekhar takes the help of youths, who are disillusioned by their inability to join the police force, and manages to kill Shankar and Waseem Khan.

[6] Khalid Mohammed of The Times of India described the film as a "messy bang-a-bang movie.

"[4] The making of a sequel, to be called Indian 2, and to star Sunny Deol and to be directed by Maharajan was announced in 2018.