Baaghi 3
Year: 2020
Director: Ahmed Khan
Cast: Tiger Shroff, Shraddha Kapoor, Rietesh Deshmukh, Ankita Lokhande

What’s the plot?

Since childhood, the dashing younger brother (Tiger Shroff) has been acting like a bodyguard for his meek elder brother (Rietesh Deshmukh). The roles continue even when the duo comes of age, and the elder brother turns a cop. Shadowing for his brother, the younger sibling keeps hammering the goons, while the elder one earns accolades as a super-cop.

Going on an official assignment to Syria, the cop-brother gets abducted by a terrorist outfit. Now, the younger brother has to take on these hardcore terrorists, and plan a dare-devil rescue mission in the foreign country.  

Verdict

The first and second installments of the Baaghi series have already established the template for this franchise. The premise is simple – a vengeance-saga packed with action, action, and more action! With his chiseled looks, toned 6-pack physique and super stunt-skills, Tiger Shroff is the reigning action-hero in Bollywood, and this third Baaghi, too tries to milk his image to the maximum.

It is a typical 70s-80s styled over-cooked film, which tries to please the masses through a weak plot full of some cliched characters; Bhai-Bhai-Baba-Bhabhi- kind of family drama; crude comedy, frivolous romance and passable songs-and-dances. Oh, did I forget? The never-ending loads of action!

Here the hero can single-handedly take on a whole army of terrorists, and their grenades, machine-guns and tanks; fending bullets with a yanked-up van-door and jumping from the ground directly on top of a helicopter!

Baaghi 3 does have high-end production values, okay performances, and even some entertaining sequences. With just a little bit of restraint and intelligence thrown into the mix, it could have been a fairly enjoyable time-pass action thriller. But instead, the director Ahmed Khan goes for the overkill defying (and defeating!) patience and logic.

Rating

2 stars