Race 3
- Director
- Remo D'Souza
- Studio
- Tips IndustriesSalman Khan Films
- Release Date
- 14 June 2018
- Running Time
- 159 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹150.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹295.00 Cr
Review
Abbas Tyrewala's "Race 3" arrives as a film caught between ambition and execution, struggling to justify its bloated runtime and convoluted narrative. The story attempts to weave a complex tapestry of family betrayal, revenge spanning decades, and high-stakes crime drama, but instead of creating emotional resonance, it becomes exhausting. Salman Khan delivers his typical larger-than-life performance, all swagger and one-liners, but there's little depth beneath the surface charm. Bobby Deol tries to inject gravitas into the villain role, yet even his considerable talent cannot salvage a character that oscillates between menacing and melodramatic without ever feeling genuinely threatening. The film's obsession with exotic locations and elaborate set pieces—the Abu Dhabi island, the flashback sequences to 1970s Handia—suggests the makers confused visual spectacle with storytelling substance.
What truly disappoints is how the film squanders its emotional core. The tragic backstory of Ranchor's death and the resulting vendetta had the potential to ground this revenge saga in real human pain and consequence. Instead, these moments feel like plot devices hastily assembled to justify increasingly ridiculous action sequences. The women characters, particularly Sanjana and Sooraj's mother whose will drives the central conflict, remain frustratingly underdeveloped, their suffering treated as mere narrative scaffolding rather than as genuine human tragedy. Director Tyrewala se
Storyline
So basically, there's this super rich and powerful arms dealer named Shamsher Singh who's running this massive operation from his private island in Abu Dhabi. He's got this whole crew working for him, including his stepson Sikku and a few close associates. But here's the thing — Shamsher's got two kids, Sanjana and Sooraj, who just turned 25 and are about to inherit a bunch of money and shares from their mom's will. The problem is, they're getting way less than Sikku, which obviously makes them furious with him.
To understand why things are so messy between everyone, the movie takes us back to the 1970s in this village called Handia. Shamsher had an older brother named Ranchor who was actually the original big shot running their whole arms business. The brothers were supplying weapons to the Indian army, but when local politicians started asking them to do shady stuff, Ranchor drew the line and said no. This seriously upset this corrupt politician named Gajendra Pathak, and things got really ugly between them real quick.
The tension between Ranchor and this politician guy escalated into some seriously dangerous stuff. During some violent incident involving an arms shipment, Ranchor ended up killing Gajendra's son, which obviously made things a million times worse. Sadly, Ranchor doesn't survive this whole mess — his car gets blown up. So now you've got this whole revenge situation brewing, and you just know it's going to impact everything that happens with Shamsher and his family down the line.
