Race 3

''Race 3 ''is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language action crime film directed by Remo D'Souza and Written by Kiran Kotrial and Shiraz Ahmed, produced under Tips Industries and Salman Khan Films. The film features Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Jacqueline Fernandez, Daisy Shah, Saqib Saleem and Freddy Daruwala. It is the final installment of '' Race film series'' which started with ''Race'' in 2008 and '' Race 2'' in 2013, but has a loosely related plot to the previous films and is considered a reboot of the 2008 original.

Race 3 was released on 15 June 2018 coinciding with Eid. It received mostly negative reviews, with criticism for its script, plot, casting, music and action sequences . Despite negative reviews, it has a successful box office collection collecting in India and approximately worldwide. It became the 44th highest grossing Indian film of all time.

Plot

Shamsher Singh is a powerful Indian arms dealer in Abu Dhabi and owns a private island, ''Al-Shifa'', for trading arms. Sikander Singh is Shamsher's stepson, who is also known by his pet name 'Sikku'. Yash, Shamsher's assistant, is a close associate at Shamsher's empire, and Raghuvendra "Raghu" Singh, is the personal assistant and close confidante to Shamsher. In a flashback scene, it is revealed that Rana Singha is Shamsher's business rival, who creates problems for Shamsher's family and his business. As Sanjana and Sooraj, Shamsher's children, reach 25 years old, their family lawyer explains their deceased mother's will. As per the will, the twins are entitled to 50% of the property and 50% of the shares as joint partners (25% each), and the remaining 50% for Sikander. This disparity causes the twins to hate Sikander even more as Shamsher preferred Sikander more than the twins. Shamsher tells both of them that Sikander is the son of Shamsher's elder brother, Ranchor Singh, who was actually CEO of Al-Shifa.

In a flashback, that portrays the Handia village of the 1970s, the history of the Singh family is depicted. Both the Singh brothers used to supply weapons to Indian army. Local politicians of Handia asked them for illegal weapons, to which Ranchor refused. His refusal caused a rivalry with a local politician, Gajendra Pathak. One day, during an ambush on an arms truck which was owned by Ranchor's company, Vijendra's son Narendra was killed by Ranchor. Then Ranchor died when his car was blown-up by a bomb. The arms company owned by the Singh family was then declared to be an anti-state organization and accused of supplying weapons to terrorists. Shamsher sent Sikander to Beijing for studies and took Sikander's widowed mother Sumitra to Al-Shifa. After a year, the twins were born.

In present day Al-Shifa, one night, Yash talks about his girlfriend. Sikander reveals that in Beijing, he fell in love with a girl named Jessica who severed ties with him. Shamsher's childhood friend Brijmohan tells him that his friend's hotel was used by politicians for their lascivious motives where all the activity was captured on a spy video camera and stored on a hard disk. The hard disk was kept in a bank locker in Cambodia. Shamsher appoints Sikander to recover of the hard disk, and he promises to get the disk. The next day, during a party, it is revealed that Jessica is actually Yash's girlfriend. Sikander and Jessica meet privately in the security room. The next day, Sooraj and Sanjana, who had recorded the Sikander-Jessica meet, screen the video to Yash. A furious Yash goes to Jessica's apartment and finds Sikander present with her. Sikander later tells him that both of their past interactions with Jessica were planned by Sooraj and Sanjana, as part of their plan to destroy Sikander. Yash teams up with Sikander against the twins but pretends to be with the twins as well. Sikander, the twins, Yash and Jessica, execute the mission to recover the hard disk.

After retrieving the hard disk, Shamsher eliminates Sikander by planting explosives in his car and heads to a conference with the politicians whose objectionable videos were stored on the disk. Shamsher tells of Sikander's death to the politicians, in the presence of the twins. He then plugs the hard disk and is shocked to find out that the disk was not the original one. Rather, it only contained a video, self-filmed by Sumitra before her death, in which she reveals the truth that Ranchor was killed by Shamsher, and the twins were Ranchor's kids. Sikander arrives, and reveals that he knew that Shamsher killed his dad, but kept it a secret for ten years and had been pretending to be loyal to Shamsher. Shamsher reveals that Yash is his real son to the twins before beating them up and before Sikander's arrival. After a fight in the desert between Sikander and Yash, Sikander demolishes Shamsher's entire army and makes both Yash and Shamsher surrender to Jessica who happens to be an Interpol officer. The arrested father-son duo are flown to their native village Handia.

In the climax, Sikander reveals that he had been planning events along all and revealed all the plans and secrets to the twins and Jessica. Shamsher is seen bribing a police officer, while Yash is seen to be toning his body inside the prison cell. Sikander, reuniting with his twin siblings in Al-Shifa, reveals the plot of handing over the original hard disks to Jessica. Sikander makes a metaphorical statement and calls himself the "Tiger" of a new race as he refuses to elaborate.

Cast

* Salman Khan as Sikander "Sikku" Singh, Suraj and Sanjana's brother, Sumitra's first child and Jessica's love interest
* Anil Kapoor as Shamsher Singh, Yash's father and Sumitra's second husband
* Bobby Deol as Yash Singh / Yashwant , Shamsher's son
* Jacqueline Fernandez as Jessica Gomes, Sikander's love interest and an Interpol officer
* Daisy Shah as Sanjana Singh, Sikander's sister, Suraj's twin sister and Sumitra's third child
* Saqib Saleem as Suraj Singh, Sikander's brother, Sanjana's twin brother and Sumitra's second child
* Sharat Saxena as Bodyguard Raghuvendra "Raghu" Sinha a.k.a 'Sexy Uncle'
* Freddy Daruwala as Rana Vijay Singha, Shamsher's enemy and later partner
* Rajesh Sharma as Brijesh Mohan, Shamsher's best friend from childhood (cameo appearance)
* Nishigandha Wad as Sumitra Singh, Sikander, Sanjana and Suraj's real mother
* Milind Gunaji as Ranchor Singh, Sikander, Sanjana and Suraj's father (special appearance)
* Narendra Jha as Interpol officer Vikram Khanna
* Chaitannya Kanhai as Narendra Pathak, Gajendra's son
* B. K. Tiwari as Gajendra Pathak, Narendra's father and a politician in Handia

Production

Development

In the year 2015, it was confirmed by director-duo Abbas–Mustan that a third instalment in the ''Race'' franchise was being planned with Saif Ali Khan returning in the lead role. In 2016, it was reported that producer Ramesh Taurani had approached Salman Khan for ''Race 3'' but he refused to do the film and asked Taurani to make some changes in the script. This report was confirmed to be true by Khan himself at the Trailer launch event of the film on 15 May 2018. In August 2017, it was reported that Khan had agreed to be a part of ''Race 3'' on the condition that choreographer-turned-director Remo D'Souza would direct the film. In August 2017, it was reported that Saif had decided not to be a part of the film as he was opposed to the idea of him playing a parallel lead to Salman. After media reports surfaced about Katrina Kaif, Jacqueline Fernandez and Deepika Padukone being considered for the female lead opposite Khan, it was confirmed during August 2017 that Fernandez had been finalised for the role. To prepare for the action sequences that she had to do in the film, Fernandez underwent extensive training in Mixed martial arts (MMA).

Filming

The shooting of ''Race 3'' began on 9 November 2017 at the Mehboob Studios in Mumbai. The filming of ''Race 3'' moved to Bangkok in Thailand for its second schedule where they filmed a song and an action sequence, which was choreographed by Anal Arasu, at the Floating Market and Rose Garden as well as the jungles of Kanchanaburi Province. After finishing the shoot in Thailand, the team reached Abu Dhabi for its next schedule. The shooting schedule in Abu Dhabi lasted for 35 days where filming was done at Emirates Palace, Yas Viceroy Abu Dhabi, The St. Regis Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, Emirates Steel and the Liwa Desert. The action sequences in Abu Dhabi were choreographed by Tom Struthers, who has previously worked on movies like ''Inception'', ''The Dark Knight'' and ''Dunkirk

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