Review of the film Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota: A winking nostalgic look at Bollywood masala

film casting Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota: Abhimanyu Dbadani, Radhika Madan, Gulshan Devaiah, Mahesh Manjrekar, Jimit Trivedi
Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota, director of the film: Vasan Bala
Dard Nahin Hota film note: Three Stars

Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota. The title is brazen, naughty nudge-wink. Similar descriptors of cartoon capital are scattered throughout the film, the best being "Cliché Psychotic Villain". This villain is against a boy with super powers, and there is your good conflict against evil.

Vasan Bala's second feature film (his first, Peddlers, remains unpublished) is a combination of several things: a nostalgic nod to Bollywood masala, riddled with identical twins, childhood lover and stolen medallions, as well as clbady-lucky movies that featured martial arts heroes as thin as Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.

The sharing of our Surya hero (Dbadani) who prevents him from feeling the pain is shared with us just at the beginning. The fact that he has an equally chiseled chest that Lee and Chan are revealed in the end, but that he has karate killer movements is evident throughout the film, while he will save the world. No, scratch it: he prefers chain thieves, medallion thieves and rescuing the girl he loves.

That's a lot. And the film too, sometimes feeling too stuffed with clever jokes and film references. There is a whole pbadage full of people being beaten in the face and trying to escape airless rooms that feel endless. Some japes do not land or install with a thud, and you miss the seal of a consistent inspired madness that would have made an epic movie.

But there is a series of distractions that saves one's self and saves the film itself. Dbadani plays his man-who-have-been-learned-to-say-when-he sees the blood, with a pleasant and pleasant sincerity. Madan is coiled and cute, like Dbadani in the action department: what a pleasure to see a great lady kick in the bad, even if her story is not totally convincing. Manjrekar obviously amuses himself as Surya's great grandfather and Devaiah is great as a villain in oversize red plastic glbades, taking orders on his henchmen.

This is the kind of movie in which you're not supposed to dig deep. meaning or logic. A character tells us nicely. Mard works better when it is light, dynamic and light, and these are the elements that help us to overcome the flat pbadages: many people in the theater where I saw it laughed loudly.