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Bollywood is full of superheroes
Bollywood is filled with superheroes.
Only, we pretend they're real people. Cornered by a dozen armed goons, our valiant leading men explode into a rage,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], showering kicks (a shot invariably repeated thrice) and tossing inconsequential enemies through papier-mache walls. But we consider this normal enough action, vanquishing evil being part from the good guy package.
Thus, used to the extraordinary in everyday cinema, we've never really looked beyond and hunted for a superhero. Why would we need a Superman when Mithunda is capable of outrunning a speeding bullet? Our heroes balance my-sister-is-blind motives with inexplicable stuntfighting, while crucially stopping to woo a heroine around a garden every so often-- if astounded by Clark stripping newspaperman garb on don superhero suit,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], what in our unsung, instant costume changes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], averaging 5 times inside a 3-minute song?
But our film culture is a that baulks at the idea of originality. Hollywood has forever had its caped crusaders and webslingers, and we're never someone to get behind in the rip-off game. Of course, we had to invent superheroes too. But, as far as aping trends goes, we have been rather slow here, due to the astronomical special effects bills. Still, we gave it a go,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], most notably within the late eighties.
1987 saw two Bollywood superhero excursions, and they couldn't have been more different. Similarly, we'd B Gupta's incredible version of Superman, starring Puneet Issar as Superman and Dharmendra as his father. The end result would be a painful movie with dismal effects-- the only tolerable scenes being footage blatantly borrowed from Richard Donner's 1978 original-- along with a horrifying script. Shakti Kapoor may be the villain Verma, while Preeti Ganguly features as 'Mrs Muscle Woman from Zambia.' Yes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], indeed. This really is some of those awful productions that has-- just by dint to be so, so bad-- spawned its popularity online. Find it, should you dare.
But, with poetic justice,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that year also gave us the best. Shekhar Kapur, at the height of his visionary powers, performed the superb Mr India, an account that overwhelmingly balanced commercial clich having a truly comicbook heart. Anil Kapoor played Arun, a scraggly big-brother figure to a dozen orphans. Confronted with utter destitution, he found his father's legacy, a bracelet with the power of invisibility. Armed thus, he stood up to magnificently campy Mogambo's (Amrish Puri, who else?) plans of world domination-- while falling in love (Superman homage,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], anyone?) with fiery journalist Sridevi. The film was a hit,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and remains one of the most watchable of that decade, a groundbreaking piece of work with the power tocreatea new Bollywood genre.
The issue, however,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], lay in originality. Having turned Kapur down for Mr India, Amitabh Bachchan-- he reportedly wasn't interested in being invisible for half the movie-- decided to begin the superhero path. In 1988, his friend Tinnu Anand directed Shahenshah, a film with story credits pointing accusingly to wife Jaya Bachchan. The movie starred Amitabh like a cop by day and vigilante by night, wearing a white wig and jacket with chain-mail arm. Amrish Puri, the definitive baddie of the era, played scotch-swilling JK, and Meenakshi Sheshadri pouted for the endless songs. Weighing in at over three hours, the hackneyed-yet-hatke film would be a crucial hit for Bachchan, his first since 1985's Mard.
Deciding that the superhero image change gave him popularity with a brand-new demographic, Bachchan went for another one the next year, as Manmohan Desai's son Ketan directed him in Toofan. The double role featured AB as a jolly magician called Shyam and also the crossbow-carrying crimefighter, Toofan. A harmless cornball comedy, it was constantly aimed at kids-- who didn't really love it. The film would be a commercial disaster, Meenakshi Seshadri not proving lucky this time around, and Goga Kapoor clearly not menacing enough to suit into Mr Puri's sinister shoes.
Since then, we've had a lull in terms of the superhero concept. Sure, Amitabh tried his hand at unwatchable fantasies like Jaadugar and Ajooba, however they wouldn't really become qualified as superhero movies. Still, it did take a star of Bachchan's calibre to create the genre to the mainstream-- it is difficult to imagine cure might have carried off an absurd costume, dialogues spoken with extremely deep breaths, along with a bright orange cape save for India's biggest superstar. Many years later, Shah Rukh Khan took a half-hearted stab in the genre using the spoofy Badshah, but the exact same thing would be a commercial failure.
We haven't really ever gone all-out superhero. Arun Bhaiyya had a nifty invisible bracelet, and that brought him closest. Bachchan had outlandish costumes, but no abilities that really made him super. A friend mentioned a Rajnikanth movie where he could fly 10 metres and find cops, but we couldn't really show up withthe name. In more recent times,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], films like Hindustani and Aparichit have dealt with vigilantes who pull-off some pretty interesting stunts, but aren't officially gifted with anything special.
As said, when our heroes are death-defying and near-omnipotent to begin with, just how much bigger than life can we get? But situations are changing. Cinema is getting grittier and relatively heading into realistic territory (when it comes to plot and character; credible dialogue writing continues to be rarer than an Aishwarya Rai hit) and it now seems we might actually be able to enhance our superheroes.
The animated Hanuman,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], cleverly packaged as India's first superhero,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], would be a hit,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], why is this so? We're a land of a million gods and intricate mythology,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and these can potentially make more compelling backstories than most of the stuff Hollywood provides. The desi version from the Spider-Man comic merely throws him into a weird-looking Mumbai and constitutes a pathetic attempt at retelling the Spidey story, but making the Green Goblin an asura is not as silly as it sounds-- it had been just done shoddily. We have to develop an original theme, and we come with an awesome add up to use.
We have a history of the supernatural. We believe in ghosts and godmen, reincarnation and rubies, astrology and also the anti-Christ. We have to just tap into that wildly inventive mythology to bring forth a really fascinating good-triumphs-over-evil saga. To produce a really super hero.
This month, even as we await the return of the most popular superhero of all, the genre seems back. Ashu Trikha's Alag stars a hairless protagonist (eyebrows included) who is an outcast from society. From the promos, one can optimistically think about a mutant story developing. Rakesh Roshan's Krrish stars the son of the alien with a tendency to play out scenes from Hollywood's biggest grossers. Neither is a great director; neither film currently shows much promise. But they are undeniably relocating the cape-and-batcave direction,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and so we must watch them. And hope.
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