At
last Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh became the subject matter of a Hollywood
action movie. After visiting a lot of African countries and Iraq or
Afghanistan, the American culture industry found the existence of a small
country (big in population size) in South Asia to explore a crime thriller. Though
most of the actions of the movie occurred in Dhaka, apart from some plate
shots, entire shooting took place in India and Thailand.
When
the story of a Hollywood action/thriller movie crosses the border, it portrays
a country as the villain’s habitat and a white man as the savior (he would be nearly
a superman) of the victim. Under this formula, Dhaka is treated as the habitat
of the villain, the drug lord Asif who kidnapped and held Ovi, the son of the
drug lord from Mumbai, India for ransom. Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth), a
black-market mercenary was hired (from Australia) to ‘extract’ the boy from the
drug racket in Dhaka. He all alone, remotely backed by his team, rescued the
boy and being severely injured, he fell down in the river from the bridge in
the outskirt of the city, which was locked down by the law enforcing agencies
with the order of the drug lord Asif.
