Watched
Commando- The One Man Army. The movie is about an Army officer (Captain
Karanvir Dogra), trained to be a Commando who ends up across the border in the
Chinese territory during a training regime and is captured by them as being an
Indian spy. When this is brought to the notice of the Ministry of External Affairs,
the Indian government does not stand by him and decides to sweep matters under
the carpet. As it turns out, the Commando escapes from the hands of the Chinese
and is left to avenge himself by fighting the system singlehandedly.
The movie
starts off on an interesting note where you feel that this might just be a revelation
into the blinding nexus between Politics and the Armed/ Police forces in our
country. However, this merely fades away into a ridiculous show of chivalry by
the commando trying to save a girl (Simrit) from Himachal from a local goon
(Amrit Kanwal Singh)!
I think
that if one has to go watch this movie it has to be for Vidyut Jamwal playing
the role of Capt. Karanvir. His entire demeanor spelled COMMANDO in capitals.
And although I’m not a huge fan of heart racing, blood pumping action scenes,
this one caught my fancy and of course was a welcome break from all the Rohit
Shetty action that’s thrown at us these days.
Pooja
Chopra who plays the role of Simrit goes way overboard with the concept of the
damsel- in- distress. She emerges in pretty frocks and shorts in every gripping
scene. Capt Karanvir, in an attempt to save her from the villain makes her jump
off tall bridges with him, climb tall trees, gives her ayurvedic tips on
surviving mosquito bites in the jungle and strategic tips on how not to leave
shoe marks on the ground. Inspite of all this it does not strike her to ask him
even once as to how he knows all this. And way towards the end of the movie she
gets all doe- eyed and asks him “Tum ho kaun?” Duh!! She was just ridiculously trying to
emulate ‘Geet’ from ‘Jab We Met’, which is suicidal.
Oh! And
here comes the most hilarious part about the movie- the Villain. Yes you read
this right. Amrit Kanwal Singh calls himself AK47 for some strange reason. He
plays Angry Birds on his cellphone , reads silly Santa- Banta jokes before
killing someone, which is a desperate attempt at inducing comedy into the
script. And there is too much unnecessary flashing of his eyeball- less eyes
after every ten, no, five minutes.
Commando to
me was okay as a one -time watch. The background scores were sloppy with some
chasing scenes given comic scores and Dabang style cowboy music for the hero.
Not Again !
But
personally this will remain a landmark movie for me; reason being, in the midst
of the movie the sound went mute due to a technical glitch and for the first
time, I saw a movie being rewound in a Movie theater and played again. It sort
of reminded me of the childhood VCR days when someone goes to get a snack from
the kitchen and then makes a Rewind request to watch the scenes being missed!
I could literally visualize the scenes… I think reading your reviews would be more fun than actually watching the movie!!!
ReplyDeleteWaiting for more, specially do watch and review – “Ek thi Daayan” and “Go Goa Gone”. I’m really looking forward for these two ☺
Extraordinary review of a very ordinary film.....u ended well and made me laugh.
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