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The Man Who Feels No Pain film review: Bollywood fantasy pays homage to vintage action cinema

3.5/5 starsBollywood launches into the superhero arena with Vasan Bala’s The Man Who Feels No Pain, a gleefully big-hearted homage, not to the blockbuster comic-book franchises of today, but the golden era of VHS action cinema.Genre superstars from Hollywood to Hong Kong are held aloft and idolised by the film’s young protagonist, a man born with a congenital insensitivity to pain, who sets out to rid the world – or at least his neighbourhood – of criminals and wrongdoers.Newcomer Abhimanyu…

from South China Morning Post http://bit.ly/2ULQIrO

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