Citadel: Honey Bunny

Did You Know?

• Filming began in January 2023 and wrapped on 13 July 2023, with locations in Serbia and India.
• The series was canceled in April 2025 after one season, with plans to integrate some storylines into Citadel's second season.
• The show's plot spans two timelines: 1992 and 2000.

Plot

In 1992, Rahi "Bunny" Gambhir works as a Bollywood stunt double by day, but secretly serves as a spy for a man known as Guru, or "Baba." His team includes Chacko and Ludo, who are like brothers to him. Bunny meets Hanimandakini Honey Raj, a struggling actress who, as a flashback reveals, is the illegitimate daughter of a royal family in Andhra Pradesh. They grow close, and he eventually asks her to help him on a side job. Honey agrees, but the mission goes wrong when they are ambushed by Zooni's team, led by Shaan, and Honey is shot. She recovers at Bunny's place, where he confesses his true identity as a spy. They fall in love, and Honey decides to become an agent. Bunny trains her and eventually brings her onto the team.

Their next assignment takes them to Belgrade to find Dr. Raghu Rao, who is supposed to retrieve a device called Armada from Dr. Pavel. Armada is a high-tech gadget that can track important people, making it valuable in arms deals—something Zooni wants. Honey discovers she is pregnant and learns that Dr. Raghu is an innocent civilian. Bunny promises her that Raghu will not be harmed, but Baba orders him to kill the doctor anyway. Zooni is revealed to be leading Citadel. Devastated by the doctor's death and realizing she is on the wrong side, Honey leaks Baba's location to Citadel, leading to his arrest. She tells Bunny about her pregnancy and escapes with the Armada. However, a new recruit named Kedar, or KD, attacks Honey's car, seemingly killing her. Baba fires Bunny, believing he is responsible for bringing Honey into their lives.

In 2000, Honey has survived and is hiding with her daughter Nadia in Nainital. Baba's new agents track them down to retrieve the Armada. Bunny, now working as a singer in Bucharest, learns through a secure online chat with Ludo that Honey and his daughter are still alive. He reunites with Chacko, and they begin searching for Honey. KD is sent to hunt Honey down, but Bunny intercepts him at Base 33 and kills his team, alerting Baba. Honey takes Nadia to the ancestral palace in Andhra Pradesh where she was born and raised, telling her about her past. Bunny, Chacko, and Ludo locate a Citadel base in Mumbai and track Honey's whereabouts. They discover that Zooni Shatsang, the Director of Citadel India, has been working with Baba and even helped him escape Citadel custody in 1999. Baba, an ex-Citadel agent, turned Zooni by spinning emotional stories about her husband, Rinzy, who was also Baba's best friend. Honey passes this information to Shaan, Zooni's colleague, who arrests her. Meanwhile, Bunny confronts Baba and destroys the Armada in front of him, telling him to leave his family alone.

Honey and Bunny regroup at her ancestral palace, but KD and his team track them down and attack, ignoring Baba's orders to stand down. The palace is destroyed, but Honey, Bunny, and Nadia barely escape. They are ambushed again by KD, and Bunny lets Honey and Nadia flee while he stays behind to face him. In the final showdown, they shoot each other but survive. Bunny convinces KD that Baba has been manipulating young recruits like them all along. More agents arrive to capture Bunny and Honey, but Bunny stands ready to fight back while Honey and Nadia wait for him, ending the show on a cliffhanger.