Debutante Lakshya’s commando goes on a rampage aboard Rajdhani Express to save his girlfriend, played by Tanya Maniktala, and other passengers from vicious goons led by Raghav Juyal in the trailer of the Karan Johar-backed action-thriller Kill.
Dropped by the makers on Wednesday, the two-minute-19-second-long trailer begins with Lakshya wishing Tanya a happy fourth anniversary. We also see him proposing to Tanya after boarding the train. However, these wholesome moments do not last long as a gang of hooligans enter the compartment and attack them.
As chaos ensues inside the train, Lakshya sees a bunch of goons dragging an injured Tanya from their compartment as her bloodied hand leaves an imprint on the glass door. This is what triggers Lakshya to unleash his rage on the goons and save his loved one.
Lakshya uses knives, an oxygen cylinder and even fire to fight the attackers. In one instance, he stabs a knife into one of the goons’ eyes and towards the end of the trailer, sets a man’s head on fire.
His fellow passengers are shocked to see him turn into a ruthless killing machine. Even Raghav’s psychotic goon leader Fani is taken aback at how mercilessly Lakshya kills his men.
The trailer instantly reminds us of the Korean action-thriller Train to Busan starring Gong Yoo because of the way it depicts the violence, gore and the determination to protect a loved one. The Korean film, which came out in 2016, is centred on a father trying to save his daughter and other passengers aboard a train from zombies.
Kill premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. “Inspired by real-life train robberies in India by a class of criminals known as ‘dacoits,’ Kill laces its high-concept premise with familial melodrama that cuts across both sides of the battlelines,” TIFF wrote, adding that Kill’s “gory and claustrophobic confines” remind one of Midnight Madness classics like Gareth Evans’ The Raid and Kim Hongsun's Project Wolf Hunting.
Written and directed by Nikhil Nagesh Bhat, Kill is produced by Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta, Guneet Monga Kapoor and Achin Jain. Kill is slated to release in theatres on July 5.
