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Suresh Triveni’s latest movie Subedaar is set in a fictitious Wild West-type town somewhere in the badlands of North India. Kokh is a den of lawlessness in the clutches of a single criminal family.

Babli (Mona Singh) is running an illegal sand mining racket from behind bars through her factotum Softy (Faisal Malik). The gangster’s biggest obstacle is neither a boy’s death at a sand-dredging pit nor the child’s grieving mother Ranju (Snehalata Siddharth). Babli’s ease of doing business is interrupted ever so often by the shenanigans of her step-brother Prince (Aditya Rawal).

Fond of generalised debauchery that includes needless killings, Prince has terrorised Kokh. It’s a minor miracle that Babli and Softy get anything done with Prince around. And it’s a major miracle that Army officer Arjun (Anil Kapoor) chooses this hell-hole to retire in.

The screenplay by Triveni and Prajwal Chandrasekar concocts a reason for Arjun to be in Kokh – he’s there to patch up with his daughter Shyama (Radhikka Madan) and settle private matters. Arjun appears to have been unaware of the existence of Babli and her posse. But when it’s time to channelise his inner John Wick, Arjun is able and willing.

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