Commando 3 sticks true to its raw USP as an action thriller than it’s preceding installments. The story revolves around a massive terrorist group that gets nabbed by the Indian Special Forces. They send their best Commando, Karanveer Singh Dogra, to head the task force.
‘Commando 3’ jumps to the bulk of its premise without much foreground to bring forward the immediacy of its intent. A police officer chases down a group of brainwashed youngsters, which unravels the even uglier end of the story. In a bid to avert the impending terrorist attack, the bureau ropes in Karanveer Singh Dogra (Vidyut Jammwal) along with Bhavana Reddy (Adah Sharma) to get to the root of the terrorist agenda and curb further attacks. The duo is further supervised by a British head in their plight, Mallika Sood (Angira Dhar).
The violence in ‘Commando 3’ is at once fully realised to be vicious, brutal and graphic. It barely spares from the visceral streak to show blood and gore. Like said earlier, Commando 3 stays loyal and true to the needs of the audience. Vidyut Jammwal in Commando 3 is careful to cater to what people want to see of him- his back flips, his stretches and firm but toned skin shining in sweat while being engaged in a military scuffle. It’s refreshing to watch the leading ladies, Adah Sharma and Angira Dhar, partake in the actions of the film doing their bits of backflips and throwing kicks and punches.
You would want to believe they are organic and just leave it to that. Also for more than half the film, one might be convinced of the competition that the makers have to incorporate between the two women for Karanveer. The tropes comprise of the damsel being taken out of her distress by our hero while a heroic track plays in the background. Gulshan Devaiah plays the barbaric Buraq Ansari with his kohl eyes, distant and menacing who also owns a South London restaurant. Devaiah is more or less consistent delivering just the right amount of evil to the film. His very first scene in the film is him alongside a biryani and his son. The makers are really trying hard to prove their point..
The film has a very vocal patriotic fervour embedded in it, with dialogues being exchanged to stamp for the same. The initial scenes of the film where you are shown tapes of youngsters shouting slogans and being led by an evil looking man is somehow believable and warms you in with you are to expect in the latter parts of the film, a patriotic angst.
You are sometimes left a little uncomfortable with instances like where a mother says she is better off being a mother to a musalmaan(muslim) over being a mother to an aatankwadi (terrorist). It makes you think if the film believes both to be such comparable subjects. The first half of the film is dotted with a lot of action until it lulls you in to watch the rest of it. The second half finally takes the story forward with its convolutions, but at one point you find yourself rapidly growing out of it. The writers don’t seem to believe in subtlety and lays out its message quite in the open. But then for an action film, it engages your visual with quite a rapture. The film in its totality gives you just what you would have expected out of it so you can’t really put any blames, but 2 hours of impeccable back flips and turns might get a little too much by the end.
If you are looking for some action-packed films to watch this weekend. You can watch Commando 3 on ZEE5