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Amitabh Bachchan, man. He has some of the best stunt sequences in the 70s. Very underrated,” says Vasan Bala, listing his favourite Bollywood action stars and sequences of all time. Then theres Salman Khans fights in Maine Pyaar Kiya and the train scene in Johnny Gaddaar. “Those two really show the struggle of the character,” he says. Bala is serious about action, and why wouldnt he be? After all, his second feature film as a director, Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (MKDNH), a story about a young man suffering from a medical condition that renders him immune to physical pain, boasts of some of the best and most detailed close-combat sequences in Hindi cinema. Featuring Gulshan Devaiah, Abhimanyu Dassani, Radhika Madan and Mahesh Manjrekar, it is a homage to the wuxia films from Hong Kong, the Hindi and Tamil action films that dominated our VHS collections in the 80s, and even that iconic rain dance scene from Singin in the Rain. MKDNH is a time travelling machine, and so we begin the interview by going right back to when it all began.

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“I grew up in Matunga in the 80s, and like a lot of us from that generation, I was drawn to martial arts films because those guys werent tall or big but could conduct long and engaging fights. Bruce Lee just blew me away; I joined karate classes. We were consumed by the stories about legends like him and Jackie Chan,” says Bala. The 80s were still reeling under a martial arts wave after Lees Fist of Fury (1972) led the way for the genre to go global — both Hollywood and Indian mainstream cinema embraced action films in an unprecedented way. Action remains a big draw at the box office, but in a scene ruled by “dishoom!” culture, was there space for what Bala describes as a “Sai Paranjpye hero who wants to be a martial artist”?

“Its more a coming-of-age story than a coming-of-rage one — there are villains but its an intimate vendetta story. In 2015, Bombay Velvet, a film Id co-written, tanked. But Id been there before so I just carried on writing and this script took shape. My friends have constantly told me that I write strange things that producers wont know what to do with,” says Bala, whod made his directorial debut with Peddlers (2012), which is yet to see a commercial release. The film was screened as part of the International Critics Week that runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. MKDNH too had a festival premiere — the Midnight Madness section of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Peoples Choice Award. As collections pick up in its second week, rave reviews are not only coming in from all over the country, but also Taiwan, Dubai, AustraliRead More – Source

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Amitabh Bachchan, man. He has some of the best stunt sequences in the 70s. Very underrated,” says Vasan Bala, listing his favourite Bollywood action stars and sequences of all time. Then theres Salman Khans fights in Maine Pyaar Kiya and the train scene in Johnny Gaddaar. “Those two really show the struggle of the character,” he says. Bala is serious about action, and why wouldnt he be? After all, his second feature film as a director, Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (MKDNH), a story about a young man suffering from a medical condition that renders him immune to physical pain, boasts of some of the best and most detailed close-combat sequences in Hindi cinema. Featuring Gulshan Devaiah, Abhimanyu Dassani, Radhika Madan and Mahesh Manjrekar, it is a homage to the wuxia films from Hong Kong, the Hindi and Tamil action films that dominated our VHS collections in the 80s, and even that iconic rain dance scene from Singin in the Rain. MKDNH is a time travelling machine, and so we begin the interview by going right back to when it all began.

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“I grew up in Matunga in the 80s, and like a lot of us from that generation, I was drawn to martial arts films because those guys werent tall or big but could conduct long and engaging fights. Bruce Lee just blew me away; I joined karate classes. We were consumed by the stories about legends like him and Jackie Chan,” says Bala. The 80s were still reeling under a martial arts wave after Lees Fist of Fury (1972) led the way for the genre to go global — both Hollywood and Indian mainstream cinema embraced action films in an unprecedented way. Action remains a big draw at the box office, but in a scene ruled by “dishoom!” culture, was there space for what Bala describes as a “Sai Paranjpye hero who wants to be a martial artist”?

“Its more a coming-of-age story than a coming-of-rage one — there are villains but its an intimate vendetta story. In 2015, Bombay Velvet, a film Id co-written, tanked. But Id been there before so I just carried on writing and this script took shape. My friends have constantly told me that I write strange things that producers wont know what to do with,” says Bala, whod made his directorial debut with Peddlers (2012), which is yet to see a commercial release. The film was screened as part of the International Critics Week that runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. MKDNH too had a festival premiere — the Midnight Madness section of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Peoples Choice Award. As collections pick up in its second week, rave reviews are not only coming in from all over the country, but also Taiwan, Dubai, AustraliRead More – Source

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Amitabh Bachchan, man. He has some of the best stunt sequences in the 70s. Very underrated,” says Vasan Bala, listing his favourite Bollywood action stars and sequences of all time. Then theres Salman Khans fights in Maine Pyaar Kiya and the train scene in Johnny Gaddaar. “Those two really show the struggle of the character,” he says. Bala is serious about action, and why wouldnt he be? After all, his second feature film as a director, Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (MKDNH), a story about a young man suffering from a medical condition that renders him immune to physical pain, boasts of some of the best and most detailed close-combat sequences in Hindi cinema. Featuring Gulshan Devaiah, Abhimanyu Dassani, Radhika Madan and Mahesh Manjrekar, it is a homage to the wuxia films from Hong Kong, the Hindi and Tamil action films that dominated our VHS collections in the 80s, and even that iconic rain dance scene from Singin in the Rain. MKDNH is a time travelling machine, and so we begin the interview by going right back to when it all began.

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“I grew up in Matunga in the 80s, and like a lot of us from that generation, I was drawn to martial arts films because those guys werent tall or big but could conduct long and engaging fights. Bruce Lee just blew me away; I joined karate classes. We were consumed by the stories about legends like him and Jackie Chan,” says Bala. The 80s were still reeling under a martial arts wave after Lees Fist of Fury (1972) led the way for the genre to go global — both Hollywood and Indian mainstream cinema embraced action films in an unprecedented way. Action remains a big draw at the box office, but in a scene ruled by “dishoom!” culture, was there space for what Bala describes as a “Sai Paranjpye hero who wants to be a martial artist”?

“Its more a coming-of-age story than a coming-of-rage one — there are villains but its an intimate vendetta story. In 2015, Bombay Velvet, a film Id co-written, tanked. But Id been there before so I just carried on writing and this script took shape. My friends have constantly told me that I write strange things that producers wont know what to do with,” says Bala, whod made his directorial debut with Peddlers (2012), which is yet to see a commercial release. The film was screened as part of the International Critics Week that runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. MKDNH too had a festival premiere — the Midnight Madness section of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Peoples Choice Award. As collections pick up in its second week, rave reviews are not only coming in from all over the country, but also Taiwan, Dubai, AustraliRead More – Source

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