Readers Pick Bollywood's Most Absurd Anything can happen in a movie. Suspension of disbelief is a mere formality. An amnesiac can regain his memory in a jiffy. All he has to do is 'accidentally' bang his head against a hard object, and voila! Memory restored! And the less said about disguises the better. Earlier we had
asked our readers to pick the most absurd scene from a movie. We pick out the wackiest replies.
Ajooba Remember this obscure fantasy costume drama that came out in early 90s? Besides being Shashi Kapoor's failed directorial debut,
Ajooba also cast Amitabh Bachchan as a super hero, replete with cape, mask, et al. So what's the catch?
In a scene, Big B is shown conversing with the sea, while calling out for his mommy. Neither mommy Nirupa Roy nor The Little Mermaid showed up, but what did come was -- surprise, surprise -- a dolphin!
Dhoom 2 The girls may have ooh-aahed over Hrithik Roshan's considerable biceps and shapely torso in
Dhoom 2. Mr A, however, is hardly the perfect con artist, insist some of our readers. "How can he steal such a huge diamond in broad daylight amid tight security?" was the question. Uh, point taken. But then again who cares? Everyone is busy ogling Duggu's cognac-hued eyes.
And who can forget the scene where Abhishek Bachchan jumps off a cliff (without a parachute) only to land right on top of the Krrish star, who's on a parachute?
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Gadar-Ek Prem Katha Sunny Deol is synonymous with wham bam and bashing up ten to 15 guys is a walk in the park for this action hero. But his record of human casualties in
Gadar takes absurdity to new heights.
Apparently this one man army takes on practically all of Pakistan and its armed forces with a single hand pump and an ear-splitting roar, to come out on top!
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Avinash Nothing, and I mean nothing can prepare you for this brand of bull. It also happens to be a crowd favourite. Mithun Chakravarthy plays the titular role of a man suffering from a brain tumour in this Umesh Mehra flick. During one of the
dishoom dishoom sequences, a gun is fired at our incredible hero. Defying all science and logic, the bullet passes through his head taking the tumour with it! And the most amazing is that he survives to tell the tale.
That's Avinash, literally translated as indestructible, for you!
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Agneepath, Coolie What's it about heroes, bullets and immortality? No matter how hard or strategically they're hit, nothing fatal happens. Big B, for one, has an exceptionally bullet-proof chest.
Whether it's Agneepath or Coolie, the man can survive a succession of golis and yet possess enough strength to man handle every bully in the vicinity.
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Main Hoon Na
Looks like spoofs aren't a hit with our audience.
First time director Farah Khan's tiny tribute to Basanti and Dhanno (of Sholay) involving Shah Rukh Khan on a cycle rickshaw, taking on a bunch of baddies in a car chase, didn't go down too well with many readers.
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Phir Hera Pheri
Everyone had high expectations from the sequel to the hilarious
Hera Pheri. But
Phir Hera Pheri was everything but funny. It is particularly hard to get over its nuisance of a climax.
Adding mayhem to the madness was a badly stuffed monkey chasing all and sundry. And to top if all, the monkey wasn't even real. Everyone knew it, except the ever-clueless cast, that is.
Giraftaar Rajnikant takes
ishtyle to another level altogether. Whether it's spinning sunglasses in his characteristic manner or lighting up a cigarette, the superstar is a riot. Call it what you may, his antics are truly one of a kind. In
Giraftaar, he keeps the villains on hold to light a cigarette, which he tosses in midair and fires with a gun to light it up.
He then grabs hold of the other end of the ciggie, takes a puff or two and then proceeds to break the bones of the obliging villains. Ciggie anyone?
Bombay 405 Miles
Between
Dostana and
Naseeb, Shatrughan Sinha worked in a film called
Bombay 405 Miles, co-starring Vinod Khanna. One of the scenes of this action comedy features super Sinha playing the good samaritan to the hilt. To quench the thirst of an old man and his daughter, he jumps off a speeding goods train, draws some water from a well and then hops back on the speeding train.
Talk about fast service and you thought only Keanu Reeves can control speed!
Edited by S a r a h - 18 years ago
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