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Quick Gun Murugun
A music channel's much loved character, Quick Gun Murugun, returns in a film of the same name. Dr Rajendra Prasad plays the title role in what promises to be a funny film. Also starring are Rambha, Sandhya Mridul, Ashwin Mushran, Anu Menon, Ranvir Shorey, Vinay Pathak and Gaurav Kapoor.

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Movie Review


We thought it would be a fun film. Stupid stupid thought! The tale of the original Indian cowboy, inspired by the quintessential 'Bawliwud Ishtylish' hero, Quick Gun Murugan is light years away from being anything funny.


Actually Quick Gun Murugan is like a plate of grossly overcooked pasta. It is not the usual fare and could have been tasty if cooked right. But instead ends up being a bowl of unpalatable sludge. And we can only blame the filmmakers for that. A spoof is a spoof – no logic, no storyline just a short while of mindless fun. Try turning that into a film, stretch it for 90 tedious minutes and this is what you'll end up with – sludge!


The story begins with QG Murugan dying. It is right about then that you'll realise how the makers are trying too hard to be extraordinarily 'cool' – something which in the nineties would have been referred to as extremely 'Yo!'. Chitragupta for example is a Gujarati man named C Gupta. And 'yamlok' is called the Ministry of Death. Things that would have been funny... in Class II.


Come interval, and you'll still be waiting to laugh. Really laugh. Some names here and some actions there might be funny. For example, a song sequence with Murugan (Dr Rajendrakumar) and his Locket Lover (Anu Menon aka Lola Kutty) dancing around trees is cute. It incorporates all the 60's Bollywood clichés right from flowers touching each other to depict an ******** (read kissing) scene to the quintessential park bench romance.



However, most of the first half is too violent (for no apparent reason) to be fun.


Second half brings in the other character you might be waiting for – Mango Dolly. Rambha as the blonde-haired, bar dancer cum gangster's keep cum Miss India aspirant cum a lot of other things is good. But it's tough for even her to help sustain a film that stretches beyond measure. Her romance with Quick Gun is the only highlight of this half of the film. The extremely corny scenes and dialogues between them is good fun.


To give it to the actors, they have really lived up to their exaggerated characters. Dr Rajendraprasad is brilliant as Quick Gun Murugan. He doesn't laugh. He can't look at semi clad women. He winces when he sees Mango Dolly dance. Good! Raju Sundaram's portrayal of Rowdy MBA is also worth a mention. The two women Anu Menon (aka Lola Kutty of Channel V) as Locket Lover and Rambha as Mango Dolly live up to their characters as well.


With rich, vibrant colours and well executed special effects, the film has a very comic strip effect. The background score only adds to the effects.



Every character has their unique musical track which plays when they enter or exit a scene. The same goes for similar situations. The songs however are nothing worth mentioning. And we could have lived without them.


Quick Gun Murugan thus, is a great character. He could have been the Indian Don Quixote. It's a pity, he ends up being an immense bore.

Verdict: What you've already seen of Quick Gun in trailers, is all that's worth seeing. Don't even bother watching the film. It will only spoil the character already created by Shah Rukh Khan in OSO years back.

RATING: 1.5/5

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Daddy Cool
The film clearly seems a rip-off of 2007's Hollywood comedy Death at a Funeral. But no harm in trying it – Indians are used to watching rip-offs just to see how good it is! Daddy Cool stars Suniel Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani, Javed Jaffrey, Aarti Chhabria, Ashish Chowdhry, Tulip Joshi, Kim Sharma, Sophie Choudry, Rajpal Yadav, Chunky Pandey and Prem Chopra. Whew!

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Kisaan
Yet another ensemble Sohail Khan production, this time with a story based on farmers. It stars Jackie Shroff, Sohail Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Dia Mirza, Nauheed Cyrusi and Dalip Tahil among others.

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Love Khichdi
This film is truly a khichdi. The protagonist (Randeep Hooda) is a sous-chef in a five-star hotel, who hooks on to seven different women! And who are these women? Riya Sen, Divya Dutta, Rituparna Sengupta, Sonali Kulkarni, Kalpana Pandit, Jesse Randhawa and Sada. Must be some ****tail of a film!