Th Disney+ Hotstar show Commando, created and directed by Vipul Shah, has the debutant Prem replacing Vidyut Jammwal, who headlined the action film franchise.
After the blockbuster success of The Kerala Story, filmmaker-producer Vipul Shah, and actress Adah Sharma are back again with an action-packed web series Commando, which is an extension of the Commando film franchise headlined by Vidyut Jammwal. Debutant Prem has replaced the Force actor in the OTT show, which began streaming on Disney+ Hotstar on August 11.
Vipul Shah has bankrolled all three Commando films and now serves as the creator and director of the Commando series. Talking about Vidyut's absence from the show, the Namastey London director told News18, "If you want to create a new commando, then you’ve to forget Vidyut. If I cannot forget Vidyut, I cannot create Prem or any new commando, who’s totally different than Vidyut."
"But that doesn’t mean that I’ve any problem with him or that we aren’t cool with each other. When I’m creating a commando, I’ve to try and create a completely new guy and for those few months of shoot, we all have to forget that this was ever done by Vidyut. That’s the only way to go forward, at least for me", the director further added.
The Commando franchise began in 2013 with Commando: A One Man Army with Vidyut and Pooja Chopra in the leading roles. In the 2017 sequel Commando 2: The Black Money Trail, Adah Sharma replaced Pooja as the leading lady and continued to share screen space with the IB 71 actor in Commando 3 in 2019.
Reprising her role as Bhavna Reddy from the last two films, Adah Sharma stated that she didn't miss working with Vidyut Jammwal in the Hotstar Specials show. She told the entertainment portal, "If you miss someone, you can pick up the phone and talk to them. We’ve a new boy who’s making his debut. This is the first time that people are going to see him on the screen. He’s doing some great action in the show. I don’t think I want to make this appear small by saying, ‘Oh, I miss my friend on set!’ That way, we’ll be ruining the whole positivity surrounding a new boy being launched. It’s so nice that there are so many commandoes."
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