Home Minister Leela (Shefali Shah), whose son is embroiled with the launderer, assembles a pliant team to bring Vicky and Maria back to India. Vicky (Vansh Bhardwaj), a shadowy and powerful launderer, has been arrested in Thailand along with his wife Maria (Esha Gupta). A prologue celebrates demonetisation and lauds its putative role in destroying black money. The story is credited to Suresh Nair and the screenplay to Ritesh Shah, but the film could well have been written by a low-level Finance Ministry official looking for a pat on the head and a promotion. What if the money lining fake accounts could be directly transmitted to starving suicide-prone famers in some way?

Only one thought emerges through the gloop: the black money economy is the only reason lakhs of Indians live in poverty. Conceived months before demonetisation but perfectly suited as a propaganda vehicle for the government’s disciplinary measure, the sequel to the 2013 movie Commando has a ludicrous plot, banal dialogue, action sequences derived from Hollywood and East Asian cinema, and mostly sub-par acting.

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