Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty is a 2014 Hindi-language Action Adventure motion picture written and directed by A.r. Murugadoss and A. R. Murugadoss and produced by Aruna Bhatia and Vipul Amrutlal Shah under the banner of Hari Om Entertainment in collaboration with Sunshine Pictures. A military officer attempts to hunt down a terrorist, destroy a terrorist gang and deactivate the sleeper cells under its command. Holiday: a soldier is never off duty stars Akshay Kumar in the lead role along with an ensemble cast including Sonakshi Sinha, Sumeet Raghavan, Freddy Daruwala, Sumeet Raghvan, Zakir Hussain and Govinda. The motion picture is based on Thuppakki. The music was composed by Pritam Chakraborty along with Prasad Sashte. Cinematography was done by Natarajan Subramaniam and editing by Amitabh Shukla. The movie has a running time of 170 minutes. It was released on 5th June 2014. The Film was successful at box office. Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty was made on a budget of ₹50 crore and it was a super hit at box office gross of ₹178 crore. Distribution rights for the motion picture were acquired by Reliance Entertainment.