Recently reading about McDonald's being about to open their first all- vegetarian takeaway in India,I remembered hearing about a Bollywood "Curry" Western,which sounded like one of the strangest movies made in the last 5 years.
The plot:
Killed by the evil Rice Plate Reddy,cowboy Quick Gun Murugun gets out of his body and gets upon a carriage to be taken to the afterlife.Feeling that he has to defeat Reddy before he can enter the afterlife,Murgun appeals the decision for him to be sent to the afterlife,by telling the official that Rice Plate is using his bandits to stop any vegetarian meals from being sold in the area,with the only choice that Reddy plans to force upon the largely vegetarian residents to eat being his self- labelled Rice Plate Reddy Beef Dosa.Accepting his request,the official warns Murgun that things may have changed quite a bit on earth,due to each minute he spent in the afterlife being one earth year.
25 years later:
Planning to jump straight into a shoot-out with Reddy and his bandits,Quick Gun is shocked to find out that Rice Plate has greatly expanded on his original plans,and is now preparing to wipe out any vegetarian food from being severed in the entire country,by building a ruling food empire called McDosa.Feeling uneasy about the changed environment and some of the new people who are acting a little too helpful, (the main one being a woman called Mango Dolly) Murugun begins to get set for the shootout which he has been waiting 25 earth years to reach.
View on the film:
Opaing with the ghost of Quick Gun Murgun, (played with a terrific flair by Dr.Gadde Rajendra Prasad) getting upon a carriage headed for the afterlife,director Shashanka Ghosh and cinematography R.A. Krishnaa make the world (and afterlife) of Murgun a wondrous Pop-Art world bursting with primary colours,from Quick Gun's leaped skin top,to Mango Dolly's (played by the beautiful Rambha) eye catching entrance.For the brilliantly stylised shoot-outs,Krishnaa and Ghosh give each of the scenes a style which looks to have been peeled straight from the pages of a comic book,from Quick Gun facing off against Rice Plate Reddy's (played with a Dick Dastardly twitch by Nassar) bandits in coconut trees,to a cleverly done,bursting bullet in the head one shot.Making the Western side to the story always be a predominant feature,from Murgun meeting Mango in a salon,to him realising that he is the only person who can save the village (and the country) from being overrun by Reddy's Mcdosa,screenwriter Rajesh Devraj also includes some unexpected commentary about fast-food,with Reddy desperately trying to find a way to give his mass-produced product a "mother's touch",which leads to this great movie being one that you can watch again and again with a rice plate reedy and a side order of mango dolly.
The plot:
Killed by the evil Rice Plate Reddy,cowboy Quick Gun Murugun gets out of his body and gets upon a carriage to be taken to the afterlife.Feeling that he has to defeat Reddy before he can enter the afterlife,Murgun appeals the decision for him to be sent to the afterlife,by telling the official that Rice Plate is using his bandits to stop any vegetarian meals from being sold in the area,with the only choice that Reddy plans to force upon the largely vegetarian residents to eat being his self- labelled Rice Plate Reddy Beef Dosa.Accepting his request,the official warns Murgun that things may have changed quite a bit on earth,due to each minute he spent in the afterlife being one earth year.
25 years later:
Planning to jump straight into a shoot-out with Reddy and his bandits,Quick Gun is shocked to find out that Rice Plate has greatly expanded on his original plans,and is now preparing to wipe out any vegetarian food from being severed in the entire country,by building a ruling food empire called McDosa.Feeling uneasy about the changed environment and some of the new people who are acting a little too helpful, (the main one being a woman called Mango Dolly) Murugun begins to get set for the shootout which he has been waiting 25 earth years to reach.
View on the film:
Opaing with the ghost of Quick Gun Murgun, (played with a terrific flair by Dr.Gadde Rajendra Prasad) getting upon a carriage headed for the afterlife,director Shashanka Ghosh and cinematography R.A. Krishnaa make the world (and afterlife) of Murgun a wondrous Pop-Art world bursting with primary colours,from Quick Gun's leaped skin top,to Mango Dolly's (played by the beautiful Rambha) eye catching entrance.For the brilliantly stylised shoot-outs,Krishnaa and Ghosh give each of the scenes a style which looks to have been peeled straight from the pages of a comic book,from Quick Gun facing off against Rice Plate Reddy's (played with a Dick Dastardly twitch by Nassar) bandits in coconut trees,to a cleverly done,bursting bullet in the head one shot.Making the Western side to the story always be a predominant feature,from Murgun meeting Mango in a salon,to him realising that he is the only person who can save the village (and the country) from being overrun by Reddy's Mcdosa,screenwriter Rajesh Devraj also includes some unexpected commentary about fast-food,with Reddy desperately trying to find a way to give his mass-produced product a "mother's touch",which leads to this great movie being one that you can watch again and again with a rice plate reedy and a side order of mango dolly.