2019 Film Festival
film synopsis
Winner of the Audience Award in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival, this zany Bollywood melodrama is unlike anything we have seen before. Born with an insensitivity to pain, Surya, played by the charismatic Abhimanyu Dasani, grows up obsessed with action movies of the 1960s and ‘70s. He dreams of being like his hero, the one-legged “Karate Man,” who famously took on a hundred black-belt opponents and won. Being unable to feel pain gives him an edge, and he wants to prove his mettle. With the support of his childhood sweetheart, herself a skilled student of Karate Man, Surya decides to go after the gangsters responsible for his mother’s death when he was a child. This unusual homage to Bruce Lee and other martial art heroes is supported by infectious music in a wild fantasy promising goofy entertainment and delirious fun.