Commando (2013 film)

Commando – A One Man Army is a 2013 Hindi action film directed by Dilip Ghosh and produced by Vipul Shah. The film features Vidyut Jamwal as the protagonist, Pooja Chopra and Jaideep Ahlawat as main characters.The film opened to mixed reviews with major praise directed towards Jamwal's performance and was a moderate box office success.

Synopsis

Karan (Vidyut Jamwal), a commando with 9 Para Commandos of the Indian Army. During a routine helicopter training their helicopter crashes into the Chinese side. The lone survivor of the wreckage, he is captured by Chinese officials. As the crash happened on a river and wreckage of the chopper got washed away, Karan as well as his seniors are not able to convince the Chinese of his innocence. The Chinese feel they can use these circumstances to brand him as an Indian Spy and use this political leverage to embarrass the Indian Government and create an International fracus. The Indian Government feels that under such politically unfavourable circumstances, the Chinese will not accept any proof of Karan having crashed during a routine training so they order the Army to erase Karan's army record, identities and simply deny his existence. Due to this Karan has to suffer inhuman torture from Chinese army for one year in a bid to force a confession out of him.

Commando (role-playing game)

Commando is a role-playing game published by Simulations Publications, Inc. in 1979.

Description

Commando is a military system of commando operations from World War II to the present. The game is primarily a board wargame with secondary role-playing rules (24-pages) for character creation, skills, cooperative fire teams, and hero characters.

Eric Goldberg designed Commando as a man-to-man tactical combat game featuring character creation and skills.

Publication history

Commando was designed by Eric Goldberg, and published by Simulations Publications, Inc. in 1979 as a boxed set containing a 48-page book and a 24-page book, 12 maps, a charts folder, and dice.

Reception

Commando won the H.G. Wells award for Best Roleplaying Rules of 1979.

References

Commando (1985 film)

Commando is a 1985 American action film directed by Mark L. Lester, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rae Dawn Chong. The film was released in the United States on October 4, 1985. The film was shot in Los Angeles, California.

The film was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Special Effects but lost to Back to the Future. The film's score was provided by James Horner. A critical success and commercial hit, Commando was the 7th highest-grossing R-rated movie of 1985 worldwide, and the 25th highest-grossing overall.

Plot

Retired Delta Force operator Colonel John Matrix is informed by his former superior Major General Franklin Kirby that all the other members of his unit have been killed by unknown mercenaries. The mercenaries, among them Bennett, an ex-member of Matrix's team fired for overt brutality in service, attack Matrix’s secluded mountain home and kidnap Matrix’s young daughter Jenny. While trying to intercept them, Matrix is also overpowered by the mercenaries.