Skip to main content

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

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

It’s Green Day’s World Now

The band’s new album, “Saviors,” feels amazingly current, not because Green Day has capitulated to the whims of the Zeitgeist but because, somehow, the Zeitgeist has bent around Green Day. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/Oz8Atxq