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Commando – A One Man Army[1] is a 2013 Hindi action thriller 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.
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Synopsis [link]
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 a 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.
However as Karan still refuses to relent, he is transferred to be tried at the Chinese Military Court with the most probable and possible sentence being the death penalty. During his transfer however, he escapes from his captors and crosses into Himachal Pradesh at the Lepcha border and travels through Kinnaur to reach his base at Pathankot. As Karan crosses the Himachal – Punjab border, he accidentally bumps into a girl, Simrit (Pooja Chopra) who is escaping from Amrit Kanwal Singh (Jaideep Ahlawat) goons and AK's brother who's a MP. Amrit Kanwal Singh or as he is better known AK-74, a notorious cold-blooded criminal and murderer with such strong political ties that he gets away with anything and everything illegal he does even after he murdered a Forrest Official, wants to marry Simrit for political gains as it will lend him some respectability and political leverage in the upcoming electoral campaign. Karan warns the goons to let go off her but they don't listen and bear the brunt of his pent up anger and after losing some men they retreat. Simran plays him to escort her out of the town by telling Karan that he has created more trouble for her and now he must escort her till she feels safe. AK waylays them on the Andheria Bridge. Finding himself outnumbered and outgunned Karanvir jumps off the bridge after kicking AK on his face with Simrit into a fast flowing river which carries them into the forest. As AK's power, position and respect from ordinary people of Dilerkot is largely attributed to fear-tactics efficiently used by him and after being publicly humiliated by Karan AK's senses that this act of Karan would affect his fear among people negatively declares that within 1 day he would track him down alive and hang him in the middle of marketplace in Dilkerkot and in the meantime kills a visibly frightened onlooker after he laughs at him. Karan hears Simrit's story and promises to help her. He decides to stick to the jungle route and then get out on the highway once he feels that the heat from Amrit Kanwal Singh and his henchmen has died down. AK on the other hand decides to pursue them inside the Jungle.
Now begins a cat and mouse game between AK, his men, and Karan in the forest. Karan at first successfully overpowers AK's henchmen by taking into effect his physical strength, Guerilla warfare tactics, cunning warfare skills, training as a commando and extreme knowledge of the area's flora and fauna and had an upper hand over the untrained and novice AK's men. The next morning AK74 hires special trackers and sets out along hunting dogs. AK spots a teared piece of Simrit's shirt. The hunting dogs thus get a scent of the duo and tracks them down. Karan misleads the dogs and crosses a river and the dogs loose them. Karan and simrit get outnumbered and Karan is shot in his stomach. AK throws Karan into a shallow river with rock beds jutting out here and there. One year later Karan survives and after recuperating fully heads back to the town. Meanwhile AK kills Simrit's parents and stages it as an accident and threatens Simrit to marry him. Karan fights all of AK's goons and an hired assassin sent by the Chinese. He beats up AK badly, breaks his ankle and hangs AK on the town square and surrenders to his Commander Col. Akhilesh Sinha (Darshan Jariwala) who had timely arrived to save him from the local police who are mere puppets of AK.
The movie ends with Karan finally telling Simrit his full name, Captain Karanvir Singh Dogra and promises to return back after the court-martial.
Cast [link]
- Vidyut Jamwal as Karanvir Singh Dogra
- Pooja Chopra as Simrit Kaur
- Jaideep Ahlawat as Amrit Kanwal (AK 74)
- Jagat Rawat as M.P. Mahendra Pratap
- Darshan Jariwala as Col. Akhilesh Sinha
- Ishita Vyas as News Reporter
Soundtrack [link]
Tracklist [link]
| No. | Title | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Lutt Jaawa" | ||
| 2. | "Saawan Bairi" | ||
| 3. | "Lena Dena" | ||
| 4. | "Mugda" |
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Release [link]
Critical Reception [link]
Upon release,Commando garnered mixed to positive reviews from critics. At Reviewbol.com, it got an average review score of 3/5 from major sites.[2]Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave Commando 3.5 out of 5 stars and said "A high-voltage action fare that's racy, pulsating and packed with some adrenaline-pumping stunts".[3]Meena Iyer of The Times of India rated it with 3.5 out of 5 star while remarking "For the first time in eons, the action scenes are totally convincing".[4] Shubhra Gupta of Indian Express awarded it 3.5 out of 5,noting," That an action film should have no place for song and dance is a no-brainer. It also has a story that creaks. Minus these irritants, it would have been a pure adrenaline rush".[5]Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave it 2 out of 5 while commenting "Despite all the bravura technical effort that has clearly been put into Commando, the end result simply isn’t compelling enough".[6] Alisha Coelho of in.com gave the movie 2.5 stars, saying "Commando- A One Man Army is a one man show where Vidyut carries the entire weight on his shoulders."[7]
Boxoffice [link]
Commando opened well because of good occupancy at single screens rather than multiplexes and it is better to its together release Nautanki Saala.[8]The film earned around 
3.50 crore (US${{#invoke:Math|precision_format| 602,000 | -4}}) on its opening day.[9]The film raked 11.25 crore (US${{#invoke:Math|precision_format| 1,935,000/1E6 | 1}} million) over its first weekend.[10]At its first week,It netted around 17.25 crore (US${{#invoke:Math|precision_format| 2,967,000/1E6 | 1}} million) having decent business in single screens.[11] It finished at around 20 crore (US${{#invoke:Math|precision_format| 3,440,000/1E6 | 1}} million) in India.
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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.
Commando (comics)
Commando For Action and Adventure, formerly known as Commando War Stories in Pictures, and colloquially known as Commando Comics, is a British comic book magazine that primarily draw their themes and backdrops from the various incidents of the World Wars I and II. It was first published in July 1961 and is still in print today. It's noted for its distinctive 7 × 5½ inch, 68 page format that became a standard for these kinds of stories. "Commando" has remained more popular than many other British war comics, and some would say British comics in general, despite its simplistic stories and simply sketched black and white artwork, with only the covers in colour.
The stories contain certain characteristic motifs; to mention a few - courage, cowardice, patriotism, dying for the sake of one's country, noble actions, and making a cup of refreshing tea while in the face of danger, enmity turning into friendship when the going gets tough, and so on. Apart from portraying these universal qualities, Commando Comics also show soldiers in national stereotypes, glorifying Allied soldiers, but showing soldiers as a mixture of good and evil. There was usually no continuity between books; each book was a complete story with start and finish, though recently series (2 or 3 stories) of books following the same character have been published.
