Projector and the Popcorn : Quick Gun Murugan

With its catchy trailers, Quick Gun MuruGUN (QGM) created a strong impression amongst film-viewers all over India, that it would be India's foray into the parody genre. All 'important' characters were introduced and given the diversity of the cast, the trailer brought people's interest to what everyone thought was going to be ‘Fundaa-stik’ or ‘suuuber’.

But, QGM's bit didn't live up to its bark. Infact, if anything, it falls.. well, short of it. The thing about parodies is that they are meant to be made by people who watch the original ones, for the ones who watch the original ones. And with QGM, that just doesn't seem to be the case.

The plot of the movie is straight forward: our vegetarian and well decorated hero Quick Gun Murugun (Rajendra Prasad) tries to stop non-vegetarian Rice Plate Reddy (Nasser) from converting the vegetarian hotels in a retro town to non-vegetarian hotels. Unfortunately, our hero gets killed in the process and gets sent to Chitragupta. After pleading his case to him, QMG gets sent back to complete his job of stopping RPR from spreading the message of non-vegetarianism. However, upon returning, QMG finds himself in present day Mumbai where our hero finds himself with the task of hunting down our villain (a bit of 'glamour' is furnished by Ramba, who plays Mango Dolly and some gangster action is thrown in by Gun  Powder and Rowdy MBA).

Though the script makes abundant attempts to pull off jokes from stunts, colourful costumes and interesting names, all of them seem utterly ineffective and lame. Even stunt scenes are (*yawn*) boring since they are all based on bullet dodging and nothing more.
The movie is very colourful though and the music is surprisingly refined and creates expectations instantly.

QGM seems to want to ridicule the Clint Eastwood style Cowboys but ends up making them seem like maestros. Cowboy movies probably aren't something that the Indian public can easily relate to.

Verdict: Think twice before this one. You won't blame yourself for not seeing this one.
Rating    : 2.5/5

-Slither