Cast: Anil Kapoor, Radhikka Madan, Aditya Rawal, Saurabh Shukla, Faisal Malik, Mona Singh Directed by: Suresh Triveni The mo...
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Radhikka Madan, Aditya Rawal, Saurabh Shukla, Faisal
Malik, Mona Singh
Directed by: Suresh Triveni
The moment the film starts, one is reminded of the western set-up with
dusty small town along with the Tarantino’s chapter-wise screenplay. Director
Suresh Triveni (Tumahri Sulu 2017) gives a punch with Subedaar. He repeats
Aditya Rawal again after his acclaimed web series Daldal (2026) and the boy is
simply outstanding. The story reminds one of John Wick and Triveni makes sure
that the film holds you till the end. There are a lot of so called creative
liberties taken where one feels that the happenings are forced and
unconvincing.
Recently retired Subedaar Arjun Maurya (Anil Kapoor) returns to his home
town after the passing of his wife Sudha (Khushbu Sundar in a cameo appearance)
in a road accident. His daughter Shyama (Radhikka Madan) was already living
with her mother. Maurya’s best friend Prabhakar (Saurabh Shukla) insists that
he take up a job as a driver of the notorious Prince / Shashikant (Aditya
Rawal) who runs the illegal sand smuggling under the command of his elder
sister mafia Don Babli Didi (Mona Singh) who is currently in prison. On meeting
Prince, Arjun is repulsed at the former’s behaviour and quits his job in a day.
The following day, Arjun & Prince get into a fracas over car parking.
Prince deliberately damages Arjun’s new car that his wife had booked with her
savings. All hell breaks out as Arjun publicly beats the pulp out of Prince
& his goons and makes Prince clean his car. During the fight, Prince
accidentally leaves his prized gun of his late father in Arjun’s car. Prince
seeks revenge. Parallely, Shyama also gets into a clash with a classmate
Ranveer who used to send her obscene videos.
Anil Kapoor in a no-nonsense angry avatar is overall restrained but
sometimes goes overly angry which could have been avoided. But he carries the
entire film. Radhikka Madan despite being hindered by a poor sketch makes sure
that she is noticed. It is Aditya Rawal who steals the show. As a firebrand he
rocks all the way and you will love to hate him. A talent to watch out for.
Saurabh Shukla is adorable and terrific and so is the ever dependable Faisal
Malik as Softy, the right hand man of Babli Didi. Mona Singh gives a strong
performance but again is let down by poor writing. Nana Patekar as lance Naik
Nana Waghmare is too good in a surprise cameo.
Cinematography and background music are definitely pluses and so is the action choreographed by Vikram Dahiya.
Despite a disappointing climax, Subedaar does manage to hold your attention with it's massy avatar.
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