''Commando 2: The Black Money Trail'' (or simply ''Commando 2'') is a 2017 Indian

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directed by

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and produced by

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, Dhaval Jayantilal Gada and

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. The film is a sequel to the 2013 film '' Commando: A One Man Army'' and the second installment of '' Commando film series''. The principal photography of the film commenced on 17 February 2016. The film stars

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, Esha Gupta and Freddy Daruwala. The film was released on 3 March 2017. It was followed by a sequel titled '' Commando 3'' which released in 2019. ''Commando 2'' is also the only film in the series to be released along with its Tamil and Telugu dubbed versions.

Plot

Karanveer 'Karan' Singh Dogra, who is now skilled in many aspects of

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, and

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, is assigned on a mission to eradicate

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, which has been siphoned to banks along with his gang. Karan, along with Inspector Bhavana Reddy and ACP Bakhtawar Khan, heads to Vicky Chaddha's house, where he meets his wife Maria. The next day, a

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occurres where Vicky and Maria are saved, but their daughter Tara dies. However, Maria kills her husband and tells that she is the actually Vicky Chaddha. A cat and mouse game ensues, where Karan, Bhavana and Bakhtawar follow Vicky and defeats her army including Vicky's main henchman K.P. Though Vicky transferred the money, Karan reveals to Vicky that he had changed the history in which the money was scheduled, and that the money has actually been transferred to a replaced account, which will help the poor farmers in

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. He also tells that this was planned from the first day itself. After the revealation, Bhavana shoots Vicky, thus completing their mission. Later, Karan receives a phone call from his superiors and is assigned for another mission.

Cast

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Karanveer 'Karan' Singh Dogra, Bhavna's love interest *

as Inspector Bhavna Reddy, Encounter Specialist * Esha Gupta as Maria Chaddha (Fake) / Vicky Chaddha (Real) * Freddy Daruwala as Bakhtawar Khan IPS, Assistant Commissioner of Police *

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as Leena Chowdhury,

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* Kannan Arunachalam as Shrinath Iyer, Indian Embassy officer *

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as K.P., Vicky's henchman *

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as Aniruddh Roy, Karan's boss *

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as Dishank Chowdhury, Leena Chowdhury's son * Vansh Bharadwaj as Vicky Chaddha *

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as Dhariwal Ranwal * Ivan Rodrigues as Kamath * Siddharth Kher as Jimmy Kher * Avisha Sharma as Tara * Sumit Gulati as Zafar Hussain, the hacktivist * Prince Rodde as 'Whisperer' * Jeet Raidutt as Vinay

Soundtrack

The songs of the film have been composed by Mannan Shaah and Gourov Roshin, while the lyrics have been penned by Aatish Kapadia and

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. The background score has been composed by Prasad Sashte. The soundtrack was released on 13 February 2017 by T-Series. The song "Hare Krishna Hare Ram" is a recreated version of the title track of the 2007 film ''

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'' starring

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, which was originally composed by

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and lyrics written by Sameer. The music for this song was recreated by Gourov-Roshin with lyrics written by

Accolades

Franz Spilhaus has been nominated for

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for this film.

Sequel

A sequel named '' Commando 3'' was released on 29 November 2019, featuring

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and

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in lead roles.

References

External links

* * {{Commando (film series) 2017 films 2010s Hindi-language films Indian action thriller films Films scored by Mannan Shaah Films scored by Gourov Roshin Films about the Research and Analysis Wing Indian sequel films Films with screenplays by Ritesh Shah Reliance Entertainment films Indian martial arts films 2017 martial arts films 2017 action thriller films