Avantika (Kareena Kapoor) is a teacher in a university in Delhi. She has come back from New York where she teaches, because her father has suffered a heart attack. During this period, she meets a temporary Professor called Ehsaan Khan (Saif Ali Khan).

As doomsday flicks go, 2012 from Roland Emmerich who has also directed the equally stunning The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day and Godzilla, is pegged on an obnoxiously high budget, breath-taking annihilation of the world shots, taut sequences of humanity going down and, of course, the greatness of the US President, who incidentally happens to be black, committed and one of the millions to stay back and slide into the rising sea waters along with the entire city of New York. Minakshi Rao writes more.