Before I start with this review, I just want to say that I spotted about 4 members who wanted a review on the Hyundai Accent GLE. Well….the GLE is basically a rechristened GVS with an additional rear LED thrown in. Nothing more, nothing less. Anyways….my point….if any of you readers who have posted that request are reading this review….check out my review on the Hyundai GVS……it’s absolutely the same car!!
Anyways……that over….the next topic I saw on the Wanted List was Mithun Chakrobati…….Now this south Indian dacoit-turned-actor is a gem of a person…..He’s one of those few actors who genuinely believe that the people should be getting their money’s worth when they pay 50 bucks on an average for a movie ticket. And the stunts he pulls off would give Pierce Brosnan 007 an inferiority complex.
No Pierce Brosnan can even touch him with a barge pole. And ofcourse he never ever used a body double. In all his movies, he always performed his own death-&-logic-defying-stunt himself. Stunts apart, even when he had to perform the “lover-boy” roles Shahrukh is famous for, his performance was overwhelming and more-often than not, his song-and-dance routine would be the talk of the town where the movie was being screened.
Mithunda as a person too is not much different from his larger than life public image. A friend of mine once spotted him at a 5 star hotel, casually talking to the reception desk clerk about the weather and his latest movie. My friend, awestruck……went over and asked him for his autograph in a low voice. Mithunda not only obliged him with the autograph but also talked to him casually for about ten minutes as if he were an old friend. That little chat obviously meant much more to my friend than the autograph and he still cherishes that day as one of the best days of his life. I mean…..think about it…..when have you ever had even a normal person, much less a superstar talking to you for ten minutes as if you were the only person in the world???
The legend I’ve heard from some of my south-indian friends is that, even if you screen a Shahrukh Khan movie in a village or a small town cinema for free and charge, say 20 bucks for a bang-bang-dishoom-dishoom Mithunda movie, the villagers and the townsfolk are still going to prefer going to the Mithunda movie over the SRK movie and cheer him wildly everytime he punches the villan or pulls a crazy stunt off.
I’ve personally seen a few of his movies and I feel that he is about as comfortable in a romantic scene as a deer in your car’s headlights but then he is absolutely at home when he is wildly throwing punches and shooting at gangsters while hanging upside down from a tree. The greatness of the man is that, even though he has an ardent fan following pursuing him even more relentlessly than journalists following Kareena and Shahid kapoor in a car, he never ever ignores his admirers and always takes criticisms and appreciation in the same tone of voice. I’ve never ever heard of even a single day when he has been late for shooting a movie on the film sets or has even thrown a tantrum when he is not happy with the way things are progressing.
Being a dacoit like Veerappan in the early stages of his life, has not had an adverse effect on his character. Mithunda, a gentleman to the core would hold any lady in the highest esteem possible and never ever make a improper move intentionally or otherwise in her presence. If a former-dacoit-turned-actor can have traits like these, the movie stars of today sure have a thing or two to learn from him.
I’d just like to end this review by copy pasting a forwarded-email where excerpts of the mind-numbing stunts from various Mithunda’s movies have been described which I hope, would depict why the villagers and townsfolk would be ready to pay a hard-earned-50 bucks for a Mithunda movie.
‘ Here is the reason Why Newton Committed Suicide.....
Once, Newton came to India and watched a few Hindi Movies that had his Head spinning. He was convinced that all his logic and Laws in Physics Were just a huge pile of junk and apologized for Everything he had Done.
In the movie of Mithunda, Newton was confused to Such an extent That
He went paranoid. Here are a few scenes
1) Mithunda has a Brain Tumor which, according to The doctors can't Be cured and his death is imminent.
In one of the
Fights, our great
Mithunda is shot in the head. To everybody's
Surprise, the bullet
Passes through his ears taking away the tumor along
With it and he is
Cured! Long Live Mithunda!
2) In another movie, Mithunda is confronted with 3
Gangsters.
Mithunda has a gun but unfortunately only one
bullet and a knife.
Guess, what he does?
He throws the knife at the middle gangster? & shoots
the bullet towards
the knife. The knife cuts the bullet into 2 pieces,
which kills both
the gangsters on each side of the middle gangster &
the knife kills
the
middle one.
3) Mithunda is chased by a gangster. Mithunda
has a revolver
but
no bullets in it. Guess, what he does. Nah? not even
in your
remotest
imaginations.
He waits for the gangster to shoot. As soon as the
gangster shoots,
Mithunda opens the bullet compartment of his
revolver and catches
the
bullet. Then, he closes the bullet compartment and
fires his gun.
Bang... the gangster dies...
This was too much for our Newton to take! He was
completely shaken
and
decided to go back. But he happened to see another
movie for one last
time, and thought that at least one movie would follow
his theory of
physics. The whole movie goes fine and Newton is happy
that all in
the
world hasn't changed. Oops, not so fast!
The 'climax' finally arrives.
Mithunda gets to know that the villain is on the
other side of a
very
high wall. So high that Mithunda can't jump even if
he tries like
one of those superman techniques that our heroes
normally use.
Mithunda has to desperately kill the villain
because it's the
climax.
(Newton dada is smiling since it is virtually
impossible?)
Mithunda suddenly pulls two guns from his pockets.
He throws one
gun
in the air and when the gun has reached above the
height of the wall,
he
uses the second gun and shoots at the trigger of the
first gun in air.
The first gun fires off and hits the villan in his head
The Villan survives but Newton commits suicide...’
