As a result he gets killed by his rival, Rice Plate Reddy's goons.
A man by name Quick Gun Murugan from Chennai opposes all this. He even sends his goons to the hotels and forcibly includes nonvegitarian food in the hotels' menus. A man called Rice Plate Reddy (Nasser) demands that all should stop eating vegetarian food and must eat non-vegitarian food only. On the whole, QMG is as delicious as Mrs Murugun's dosas.The story begins in Tamilnadu with the time period being 1982. The Carnatic flute version of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly signature tune was a treat.įrom his two-minute life span on a music channel, Quick Gun Murugun has come a long way indeed and deserves this full length feature dedicated to our very own Indian Cowboy with a buckle to die for (Stylists, may I please have a replica of the same?!) What stands out in the film is the sound design and the music (Sagar Desai), which combine to make this spoof a full-blooded comic-action-crime thriller. Her outfits we thought, went out with the Gemini Circus. Mango Dolly, played by Rambha, is a buxom beauty (a la the Southern sirens) in a blond wig and blue eye-shadow (a la Helen). Nasser as Rice Plate Reddy is a treat to watch with his flashy rings, white and gold outfits and his favorite expression, "Tension, tension, tension da!" Watch out for his ear fuzz set against a shiny bald pate. But not for a moment do you doubt his sincerity as he delivers the funniest and corniest lines with the straightest face.
His rosy cheeks, penciled moustaches and scarlet lips are as effective as his green, yellow and orange costume. How this sequence ends is for you to find out.Ĭasting is near-perfect, with Dr Rajendra Prasad going about his business with all seriousness. Tension mounts, Gun Powder is inching towards his death, Rice Plate dictates the lines, relishing every innocuous word, giving it a sinister twist, to the unmistakable tune of Happy Birthday in the background. When Rice Plate Reddy sounds the death knell for his aide Gun Powder, a near-blind octogenarian is summoned with a prehistoric typewriter to drum out his "resignation". Some of the goriest scenes in QGM are tempered with dark humour.
Well, by the time the film gets over, you will have your own list of favourites. And heaven's messenger drives a cart attached to a bike which 'moos' like a cow. QMG is lured into a "honeymoon soot" at a rundown hotel calling itself, Well-Known Lodge, which has pink heart shaped cushions and a creaking bed. QGM actually cries into a glass of whisky while the villain wears gold underpants and red 'dollar' briefs with a secret 'money' pocket. The villain, Rice Plate Reddy's weapon of mass destruction is Mc Dosa which boasts of a Ronald Mc Donald parody with decidedly Dravidian features. Mango Dolly, the don's moll, wears a blonde wig and furry nighties around the villain and brown hair, pink satin petticoats with backless cholis around Murugun. The art direction, styling, the construction of each frame has been handled deftly. Hoping to convince Murugun to take up a decent job, his Locket Lover urges him to "Get a kerosene dealership." And after having taught a handicapped robber a suitable lesson, Murugun tells him, to "apply for a phone booth instead." And even Big B is not spared when Reddy suggests his team rope in Bachchan to endorse the terrible Mc Dosas, and mimics his somber style to the 't'. "He has become thin as a chewed out drumstick," says Murugun's sister-in-law, who makes the 'best dosa-sambhar' in town. "This is a private road", says QGM, when Mango Dolly tries to seduce him. The laughs do happen but more often you are left smiling at the intelligent dialogues and their allusions to cultural idiosyncrasies, the parodies and the sarcasm. And it definitely does not expect you to 'leave your brains behind'. QMG is not your typical slide-splitting, laugh-a-minute fare. He was this larger-than-life, over-the-top, generous to a fault, protector of the poor, saviour of the ladies, faster the bullet, sucker for mother's cooking who cries at the drop of a hat (literally) with a bad dressing sense man, we canonised in our cinema.īut lest you go in expecting some bawdy humour and slapstick comedy, be warned. Murugun, the vegetarian Tamil cowboy, is Ghosh's tribute to the archetypal hero, who dominated popular imagination for decades.
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