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Race 3
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Remo D'Souza
Written by	Shiraz Ahmed
Produced by	Ramesh S. Taurani Salma Khan
Starring	Anil Kapoor Salman Khan Jacqueline Fernandez Bobby Deol Daisy Shah Saqib Saleem Freddy Daruwala
Cinematography	Ayananka Bose
Edited by	Rameshwar S. Bhagat
Music by	Salim Sulaiman
Production companies	Salman Khan Films Tips Films
Distributed by	Tips Films Salman Khan Films
Release date	15 June 2018 (2018-06-15)
Running time	159 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹150 crore
Box office	est. ₹300.04 crore

Race 3 is a 2018 Indian action thriller film directed by Remo D'Souza and produced under Tips Films and Salman Khan Films. The film features Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan, Bobby Deol, Jacqueline Fernandez, Daisy Shah, Saqib Saleem and Freddy Daruwala. It is the third installment of Race film series, and the film has a different plot than previous films of the franchise. The film released on 15 June 2018 coinciding with Eid and received gross negative reviews from the critics.

Plot

Shamsher Singh (Anil Kapoor) owns a private island Al-Shifa for trading arms and narcotics. Sikander Singh (Salman Khan) is Shamsher's adopted son, while Sanjana (Daisy Shah) and Suraj (Saqib Saleem) are his twin children. Yash (Bobby Deol) is a close associate at Shamsher's empire and confidante of Sikander. In a flashback scene, it is revealed that Rana Vijay (Freddy Daruwala) is Shamsher's business rival and he creates problems for Shamsher's family businesses. As both Sanjana and Suraj age to 25 years, their family lawyer explains the will of their deceased mother (Nishigandha Wad). As per the will, the twins are entitled for 25% share each, and the rest 50% for Sikander. This visible disparity, the twins begin hating Sikander. Shamsher tells both of them that Sikander, is the son of his elder brother Ranchor Singh (Milind Gunaji).

In a flashback, that portrays Handia village of 1970s, the history of 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 refuses. His refusal causes rivalry with a local politician. One day, during an ambush on Shamsher's truck, Vijendar Singh's (Manav Vij) son (Anurag Arora) is killed by Ranchor's gunshot. One day, Ranchor dies when his car is exploded by a bomb. Singh family is then sought to be as a legitimized anti-state and are accused of supplying weapons to enemies. Shamsher sends Sikander to Beijing for studies and takes Suraj, Sanjana and their widowed mother to Cambodia.

Back to present day Al-Shifa, on one night, Yash talks about his girlfriend. Sikander reveals that in Beijing he fell in love with a girl named Jessica (Jacqueline Fernandez) who severed him. Shamsher's childhood friend Brijmohan (Rajesh Sharma) 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 hard disk. The hard disk was kept at a bank's locker in Cambodia. Shamsher appoints Sikander on discovery of hard disk who promises him to get back the disk. The Next day, during a party it is revealed that Jessica was actually Yash's girlfriend. Sikander and Jessica meet privately in the security room. The very next day, Suraj and Sanjana (twins), who had recorded Sikander-Jessica's 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 the both of their past interactions with Jessica were planned by Suraj and Sanjana (twins), as part of their plan to destroy Sikander. Yash teams up with Sikander against the twins but disguises to be with the twins also. Sikander, the twins, Yash and Jessica execute the mission to recover the hard disk.

After handing over the hard disk to Shamsher, he eliminates Sikander by planting explosives in Sikander's car and heads to conference with politicians whose objectionable videos were on the disk. Shamsher tells about Sikander's death to the politicians, in the presence of the twins. He then plugs hard disk and is shocked to find out that the disk was not the original one. Rather, it contained only one video of Sikander's mother. Sikander's mother self filmed a video in which she reveals the truth that Sikander's father (Ranchor) was killed by Shamsher, and the twins were Ranchor's kids. Sikander arrives and tells how he escaped from explosion, thanking to the timely intervention by Raghu Chacha (Sharat Saxena). He further reveals that he knew this secret since ten years and been pretending to be loyal to Shamsher. Shamsher tells that Yash is his real son. A fight scene in the desert between Sikander and Yash, Sikander demolishes the entire army of Shamsher and makes both Yash and Shamsher to surrendered to Jessica who happens to be an Interpol officer. The arrested father-son duo are flown to their native village Handia.

Shamsher is seen bribing a police officer during jail proceedings, while Yash is seen to toning is body inside the prison cell. Sikander, reuniting with his twin siblings in Al-Shifa reveals the plot of handing over the original hard disk to Jessica. In conversation with the twins and Jessica, Shamsher makes a metaphorical statement about "Sher" (tiger) of a new race.

Cast

• Salman Khan as Sikander Singh sobriqueted as Sikku/Munna

Son of Rancor Singh, who's sent to Beijing where he fells in love with interpol officer Jessica. He finds out that Shamsher, his uncle, betrayed and killed his father. He further finds out about his real siblings. For the next ten years he pretends to be loyal to Shamsher. He finally sends Shamsher and his real son Yash to prison.

• Anil Kapoor as Shamsher Singh

A greedy man who after killing his brother Ranchor in Handia heads to Cambodia and runs weapons' business. He tells fallaciously to his twin nephew and niece that they are his children.

• Bobby Deol as Yash Singh

The actual son of Shamsher, Yash wins Sikanders trust and never lets anyone know that he is son of Shamsher.

• Daisy Shah as Sanjana Singh

The sister of Sikander and Suraj, she first fallaciously told by her uncle Shamsher that she is his daughter. She has contempt for Sikander.

• Saqib Saleem as Suraj Singh

The brother of Sikander and Sanjana, he, like his sister, is fallaciously told by her uncle Shamsher that he is his son and has hatred for Sikander. He is an angry young man.

• Jacqueline Fernandez as Jessica an Interpol Officer

Interpol officer who's sent to both Sinkander and Yash by Suraj and Sanjana as part of their plan to destroy Sikander. Jessica is in the quest to find hard disk containing videos of politicians.

• Sharat Saxena as Raghu Chacha

Shamsher's guard who gives Sikander the video of his mother telling true story of their family. He pretends to be Shamsher's closest. He finally saves Sikander's life by snatching from his hand, the pen that exploded killing him.

• Freddy Daruwala as Rana

Rival of Singh family who many times attempts to kill its members. He finally joins Shamsher.

• Rajesh Sharma as Brijmohan
• Nishigandha Wad as Suraj and Sanjana's Mother
• Milind Gunaji as Ranchor Singh
• Narendra Jha as Khanna
• Anurag Arora as Vivek Singh, Vijender Singh's son
• Manav Vij as Vijender Singh

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 in lead role. In the year 2016 it was reported that producer Ramesh Taurani had approached Salman Khan for Race 3 but he refused to do the film and asked Turani 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 be the one to direct the film. In August 2017 it was reported that Saif Ali Khan had decided not to be a part of the film as he was opposed to the idea of him playing a parallel lead to Khan. 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, Jacqueline underwent extensive training in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).

Filming

The shooting of the film 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 production 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. For its next schedule the film unit moved to Kashmir and later on to Ladakh where Salman Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez filmed a romantic song. During the shooting, Salman Khan was convicted in the Blackbuck poaching case on 5 April 2018 by a Jodhpur Sessions Court, as a result of which the remaining patchwork of the film was completed in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan instead of Abu Dhabi because the film was running behind its schedule and Jaisalmer had a landscape similar to that of Abu Dhabi.

Soundtrack

The film score is composed by Salim Sulaiman while the songs featured in the film are composed by JAM8, Meet Bros, Vishal Mishra, Vicky-Hardik, Shivay Vyas and Gurinder Seagal. The lyricists are Salman Khan, Kumaar, Hardik Acharya, Shabbir Ahmed, Shloke Lal, Shivay Vyas, Rimi Nique, Kunaal Vermaa and Raja Kumari.

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 11% based on 9 reviews, and an average rating of 3.8/10. On Indian review aggregator website Cinechickens, Race 3 received negative reviews with a rating of 32% based on 30 reviews counted.

Rachit Gupta of Times of India gave the film 2/5 stars and said, "Race 3 just does not work up the feeling of suspense and intrigue that made the previous masala movies from the franchise a guilty pleasure". Rohit Vats of Hindustan Times gave film 1/5 stars and called it a "mere show-reel....Poorly directed, with a ridiculous plot and sub-par acting, this is a new low for the superstar.....It’s really difficult to sit through 160-minutes of terribly bad film-making". Rajeev Masand of CNN-News18, too, gave it 1/5 star and said the film is "complete drivel". Although Meena Iyer of DNA praised introduction of characters, she still criticised the film saying, "Race 3 is not even boasting of being an intelligible film which has been made to clear the cobwebs in your mind", and rated the film 2/5. Anita Iyer of Khaleej Times gave it 1.5/5 and felt that the film short fall of expectations. Swetha Ramakrishan of Firstpost called it "funny, kitschy and audacious". Film Companion's film critic Anupama Chopra gave it 2/5 stars saying that the storytelling was sacrificed at the altar of Salman Khan. Joe Laydon of Variety wrote about the film, "This in-name-only Bollywood sequel delivers fast and furious action, spirited song and dance, but way too many narrative speed bumps". Saibal Chaterjee of NDTV gave the film 1.5/5 stars praising its climax, and calling the rest "clueless stuntman". Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com gave no stars to the film and wrote, "Race 3 doesn’t merely demand you to leave your brains behind but guarantees you won’t find them anywhere even after the ordeal is over". Priyadarshini Patya of MensXP.com rated the film 1/5 and said, "Race 3 is just Salman Khan's business, none of the viewers' business". Sonal Dehdia of Mid Day gave the film 1/5 stars and said, "There are two pehlus (aspects) to this film too -- first, it is atrocious and second, it will mint money at the box-office nonetheless". Dhavesh Sharma of Filmfare gave the film 3/5 stars and wrote, "A dysfunctional, ultra rich family, shady deals, fast cars, high speed chases, sassy women, macho men and enough plot twists to make Abbas Mustan go groggy with delight, Race 3 has all these and more'. Bollywood Hungama gave the film 2/5 stars and write, "On the whole, RACE 3 is high on style and low on substance". Ritika Handoo of Zee News, giving it 2.5/5 stars, said, "the action thriller lacks depth". Namrata Joshi of The Hindu criticized and called the film "compendium of inanities". Shilpa Jamkhandikar of Reuters described the film as "a minefield of meme-worthy moments, replete with hilarious dialogue, a plot ripe for parody and abysmal acting". Umesh punwani of Koimoi gave the film 2/5 stars and said, "On the whole Race 3 is not entirely unentertaining but it is majorly disappointing". Manjusha Radhakrishan of Gulf News gave the film 1.5/5 stars and called it "doomed adventure". Stutee Gosh of The Quint gave the film 1/5 stars and said "The moments of lull are so many in this 159-minute-long Race 3 that we develop a strange detachment from the on-screen proceedings". Suprana Sharma of Deccan Chronicle gave the film 1/5 stars calling it " a slow, dim-witted crawl to nowhere".Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in criticized the film and noted that ''Even die-hard fans will find the going tough....Remo, (who) appears to have been too much in awe of his leading man to have actually given him any basic instructions on the sets....''.

Box office

Domestic

The film released on more than 4000 screens and collected ₹ 29.17 crore on opening day in India becoming biggest opener of the year. The film became Salman Khan's 4th highest opening day grosser after Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, Tiger Zinda Hai and Sultan. On second day, the Eid day in India, the film collected ₹ 38.14 crore, and the follwing day's 39.16 crore collection of film took its first weekend's net collection to 106.47 crore and made it second highest opening weekend grosser of the year after Padmaavat. On first Monday the film collected ₹ 14.24 crores raising its 4 days domestic net collection to ₹ 120 crores. After 12 days of theatrical run, the film, in terms of worldwide grossing, became second biggest Bollywood film of 2018.

Overseas

On opening day, the film collected 127,510 USD from 49 screens in Australia, 68,779 USD from 27 screens in New Zealand, 337,080 USD from 137 screens in UK, 477,511 USD from 281 screens in United States and 10,371 USD from 6 screens in Canada. On second day the film collected 143,302 USD from 51 screens in Australia, 77,619 USD from 30 screens in New Zealand, 412,036 USD from 136 screens in UK, 512,914 USD from 283 screens in United States and 9,230 USD from 5 screens in Canada. On first Sunday, the film collected 45,905 USD from 28 screens in Australia and 71,217 USD from 26 screens in New Zealand. In 4 days, the film grossed ₹ 44.97 crores overseas.

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External links

• Race 3 at IMDb
• Race 3 at Bollywood Hungama

• 2018 films
• Indian action films
• Films shot in Abu Dhabi
• Indian sequel films
• Films featuring an item number
• Films shot in Bangkok
• Films shot in Thailand
• Films produced by Salman Khan