Salman Khan does everything - from repeating his most popular dialogue “ Ek baar jo maine commitment kar di”, which clearly has lost its novelty, to going shirtless. All this to show that had Radhe been around they would have been saved. The few other women are either raped or molested and are almost always crying and pleading. A female police officer is shown visibly shivering when faced with criminals and needs Radhe's saviour complex to be able to breathe.
The songs are jarring and you would almost miss Jacqueline Fernandez gyrating suggestively in one of the dance numbers. Like many women in Salman‘s films, she has little or no agency. Disha Patani as the featherhead Diya seems to be at ease though. It's another thing that the 'protector' of aurat and their izzat thinks nothing about lying to a women he falls for in pehli nazar and goes on to manipulate her. When asked why he shot dead so many men, Radhe replies “ auratzaat ke liye (for the women)”. The segue crashes are jarring and the film's messaging even more so. For the sake of Jackie Shroff let’s pretend he was never a part of this debacle. Credit goes to Prabhu Deva for making even decent actors ham their way through Radhe.
Unkempt long hair and black clothes, it’s painful to see an actor of Hooda’s caliber reduced to just another cliche. He plays Rana, a drug lord new to Mumbai but determined to make it big in the city.
Since Radhe stands for all things good, the “bad” comes in the form of Randeep Hooda. Radhe either saunters with swag or crashes through windows of highrises. “Revoke his suspension” another person screams, and we have a slo-mo walk by the man himself. The saviour is one with a rather inglorious achievement to his credit - 97 encounters and 23 transfers in 10 years.
In what appears like a “high level meeting “ with senior officials and bureaucrats, one person shouts “we need a specialist”. Mumbai is a mess and the only one who can clean it is Radhe. Said to be a remake of the Korean film The Outlaws, AC Mugil’s screenplay weaves a tale where every character exists to simply allow Radhe (Salman Khan) to flex his muscles and feed into his megalomania.
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