Commando 3 (film)

Commando 3 is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Aditya Datt and produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah & Reliance Entertainment. The film is the third film of Commando franchise following Commando (2013) and Commando 2 (2017). It stars Vidyut Jammwal, with Gulshan Devaiah as the antagonist, alongside Adah Sharma and Angira Dhar. In the film, Karan goes undercover with Bhavana Reddy for an anti-terrorist mission in London.

Filming commenced in September 2018 in Bradford and York City in England. The film was earlier planned to release in September 2019. It was finally released in cinemas on 29 November 2019. The film is the highest grossing film in the Commando film series, but was not much commercially successful due to its budget.

Plot
The Mumbai Police force arrest three young terrorist suspects and interrogates them, but doesn't receive any information. Karanveer "Karan" Singh Dogra is called to help the cops, but one of the suspects kills himself. Upon further investigation, Karan learns the suspects received money and VHS tapes containing a terrorist's message. Also, one of the suspects talks repeatedly about 9/11, which is decoded as an attack on India on the day of Deepavali. Karan also learns that the recordings were actually shot by a camera in London, and decides to go undercover along with Bhavana Reddy, who assisted him on his previous mission. Posing as a married couple, they arrive in London where Mallika Sood, an MI6 officer, takes them to their work station where another agent named Armaan Akhtar assists them.

On the other hand, the British terrorist Buraq Ansari forces his son Abeer to watch him kill a man. Abeer's mother and Buraq's ex-wife Zahira wants to contact the cops, but is threatened by Buraq. After learning that two Indian agents have arrived in London to capture him, Buraq enlists his agents's help to track them while Karan and his team go through the same process to follow Buraq's agents. While pursuing a suspect, Karan meets Zahira and Abeer and soon gets involved in a bike chase with the suspect, resulting in the latter's accidental death. Karan retrieves his phone and answers Buraq's call, further telling him he would soon visit the dead suspect's house. Karan and the team arrive at the home, but outside is stopped by Buraq's goons. A fight breaks out, resulting in Karan getting thrown out of the house by an explosion. The video goes viral, and so does Bhavana's tweet supporting Karan.

It is revealed to be a part of Karan's plan when he releases a video challenging Buraq without disclosing his identity. When Buraq's DNA matches a murder suspect, Karan and his team rush to Buraq's restaurant but learns that he already left. Realizing that he would have gone to pick up Abeer from school, Karan arrives and challenges him before the latter disappears. Back in Mumbai, the two suspects are reformed by an Imam. Buraq is unwilling to leave Abeer and soon finds himself exposed when Karan holds a press conference with Abeer and Zahira. When Abeer and Zahira are being escorted safely to the airport, Buraq's henchmen attack the vehicles, where Bhavana is knocked out in the crash while Karan and Mallika fights off the henchmen. However, Zahira and Abeer are kidnapped, and Mallika is informed about Buraq's surrender.

Karan tries to interrogate him but ends up using brute force, due to which he and Bhavana are ordered to leave London within 24 hours or face deportation Buraq is freed due to making a deal with the MI6 and provides the evidence of the previous attack in exchange for his freedom. On his way to a safe house, Buraq asks the officers to stop at a mosque, where he switches places with one of his henchmen and kills Zahira. Realizing the attack would be not on Deepavali but on Dussehra, Karan decides to continue alone, but is joined by his team. Through Abeer's tablet, the safe house is located and attacked by Bhavana and Mallika while Karan leaves to capture Buraq. Following the fight that leaves all the henchmen dead, Karan injects Buraq and takes him away.

Bhavana and Mallika rescue Abeer, while Karan is safely picked up by his agency's helicopter and escorted to India's cargo ship. With minimal time remaining for the attacks, Karan and the cops try to find the targeted cities. Decoding spoken repeatedly by Buraq, Karan finds the targeted towns and releases a video requesting India's Muslims to understand the value of religious unity. The Muslims gear up to face the terrorists where they are joined by the cops and the terrorists are arrested. Karan kills Buraq and hands over Abeer to the dead suspect's father.

Cast

 * Vidyut Jammwal as Commando Karanveer 'Karan' Singh Dogra
 * Adah Sharma as Senior Inspector Bhavana Reddy, Anti-Terrorism Squad
 * Angira Dhar as British Intelligence Agent Mallika Sood
 * Gulshan Devaiah as Buraq Ansari, Zahira's ex-husband and Abeer's father
 * Sumeet Thakur as British Intelligence Agent Armaan Akhtar
 * Rajesh Tailang as Roy, Karan's boss
 * Virendra Saxena as Ahmed
 * Saahil Krishnani as Saahil
 * Vibhawari Deshpande as Rajani
 * Feryna Wazheir as Zahira, Buraq's ex-wife and Abeer's mother
 * Abrar Zahoor as Tabish, Buraq's henchman
 * Suresh Vishwakarma as Inspector Tukaram Tambe
 * Abhilash Chaudhary as Taimur Khan
 * Manuj Sharma as Subhan
 * Raghav Dheer as Umar/Rakesh
 * Prashant Jha as Usman/Amit
 * Mark Bennington as Alvin, Mallika's boss
 * Atharva Vishwakarma as Abeer, Buraq and Zahira's son
 * R.Bhakti Klein as British Intelligence Agent
 * Gracy Goswami as School student

Development
The success of first two Commando series made the producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah to go for third franchise. On 6 September 2018 it was announced to start Commando 3 with Vidyut Jammwal.

Filming
Later in September filming began in London, England. The filming wrapped up in mid June 2019.

Soundtrack
This music of the film is composed by Mannan Shaah and Vikram Montrose with lyrics written by Sahil Sultanpuri, Abhendra Kumar Upadhyay, Azeem Shirazi, Farhad Bhiwandiwala and Vikram Montrose.

Theatrical
The film was released on 29 November 2019.

Home media
It was made available as VOD on streaming platform ZEE5 starting on 20 February 2020.

Box office
Commando 3's opening day domestic collection was ₹4.74 crore. On the second day, the film collected ₹5.64 crore. On the third day, the film collected ₹7.95 crore, taking the total opening weekend collection to ₹18.33 crore.

The film has a gross collection of ₹38.65 crore in India and ₹1.50 crore overseas, making a worldwide gross collection of ₹40.15 crores.

Awards and nominations
The Andy Long stunt team, Amin, and Varma were nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Action.