Picture this – A typical Bollywood hero dancing around trees, defying gravity with helicopter kicks and romancing 6 heroines between explosions. Cut to 2013. Enter ‘Commando’ a movie where the hero’s biceps do more acting than his dialogue. Starring Vidyut Jamwal, a man who probably does pullups with one hand while scripting fight sequences with the other, Commando wasn’t just a movie but it was a declaration. Few movies in Bollywood have redefined the action genre quite like Commando. In a world where Bollywood heroes routinely paused midair to adjust their hair mid-kick, 2013’s Commando arrived like a rogue grenade.
This cinematic Tour De Force not only showcased Vidyut Jamwal’s awe-inspiring martial arts but also heralded a new era of raw practical stunts in Hindi cinema. This movie didn’t just raise the bar for action; it threw the bar into a woodchipper. Forget rose-tinted romance; here, romance was a knife fight in a monsoon. Strap in for dissection of the blood, sweat and vandalised furniture behind the movie that made Tom Cruise whisper ‘Yeh India mein kya hai?’
