Mard (1985)

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Blistering performances.

The alternate title of this film should beManmohan Desai has gone mad (he was the director and producer(Manmohan Desai Pagal Ho Gaya in Hindi) At around 88 minutes elapsed time, there is s scene, where the hero traveling on his horse-driven carriage, see a sculpture of a soldier and a horse and go in to monologue dissuading his horse from mating the stone one.If you find this type of items as funny, then go ahead and watch this filmDr. FrankensteinJuly 2, 2016NOTE: The man could manage to direct only 1 more film,after making this junk and that too because itwas half way complete.

Director (Manmohan Desai) with star (Amitabh Bachchan) made history of wonders : (Amar Akbar Anthony - 1977), (Naseeb - 1981), (Coolie - 1983), and (Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi - 1988). Here it's not (Desai)'s most fantastic world inasmuch as the most fantasia.If you wanna be silly : actually (Mard) gives you an ideal chance. It's one atmosphere of absurd hyperbole where you'll watch primitive Roman wrestling to death, excellent intelligence's masks, colony with mine and slaves, evil guys with tankers, ..etc. It's (Spartacus) meets (Mission Impassable) meets (Indiana Jones) meets (Rambo) ! Nobody dares to define what year all of this was happening : "Lady Helena" (whom the movie didn't tell us who's she !) is wearing a heavy 19th century clothes, then Amrita Singh's car is from the 1950s, and her clothes from the mid-1980s ??? The most laughable one came from Amrita's bodyguard with his black leather punk garb, and for sure the evil guy who was wearing Freddy Mercury's costume yet with Dracula's cape !! Not to mention : a horse who has an elephant's memory, explicitly shoddy back-projections, and an electric shocker as a torture device along with a bikini both in the 19th century !?? If you wanna be merciful : the character of the popular hero along with his melodramatic story and conflict was great according to this kind of let's say : genre. The story lines come from so many folk stories or old legends but through the Desai's distinct style of making highly satisfying piquant MOVIE, and with a patriotic sense too WAW. (Amrita Singh) was, and maybe still is, the sexiest Indian girl ever appeared on the screen, she was so blazing and kind of reprised her first role 3 years earlier in (Betaab - 1983) which was Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. (Amitabh Bachchan) was larger than life particularly at that time when he was "The Star" and deserving it, look at him fells the screen while the movie's title appears, gosh, he is the man (Mard stands for man). Everything was quite ardent, so you've got to feel exhilarating because of this non-stoppable adventure. In fact, we say the precept of "leave your brain at the door, and enjoy" about so many American movies, aren't we ? So why not saying it about this Indian interpretation of FUN ! If you wanna be nostalgic : I watched it while I was 11 or 12-year-old, it was shown at the Egyptian theaters for a record time, and what a crush I've had. I ranked it at my early list of the greatest action movies ever. However, when I re-watched it 20 years later I discovered that it's special case of entertainment, which doesn't ever deny that it's a pure entertainment indeed. It's like a Comic-book movie from India. Look at the last shoot; it can summarize perfectly the whole condition of the movie as light fantasy with comedy/action /romance/melodrama/Desai ! It's one huge extravaganza of nearly all the quintessential cinematic factors of enjoyment as pure piece of escapism yet a' la Indian.If you wanna be rational : You'd think cheese, delirium, or act of decadence. But simply (Mard) is representing Bollywood picturization of ecstasy as the ultimate commercial Indian movie of the 1980s at its highest peck of being dainty, with all the deficiencies of the previous too.In one word : enjoy it, it meant to do this exceedingly. And believe me, it will make you forget your worries ..Along with your name too !

The British soldiers would normally come over to India and loot all its wealth and carry it over to there country. But once in a time they were all challenge by a king called Azad Singh, and caught and carry to Lady Elena but they all attack King Azad behind his back and he was wounded and treated by Dr. Harry (Prem Chopra) but Dr. Harry turn out to be a British employer despite being an Indian and decided to attack King Azad and his family which consist of his wife and baby son. And so the son was separated from mother and father at a very young age. He was grown up by a horse and dog and was named Raju Singh/Mard (Amitabh Batchchan) which took him one day to the enemy's/British house and daughter named Ruby (Amrita Singh) Dr. Harry's house where he will have to challenge and fight with his father to impress the British and also made a plan which will help him and his father outwit the British.

I love this movie. Get me some of whatever the director was on. I don't want to spoil the insanity for anyone who's never seen this, but ... tanks, gladiator fights, Sherlock Holmes outfits, a dog who's smarter than anyone in the movie, black leather bondage gear, and villains with Union Jacks on their evil capes. Get some friends and some beer and I guarantee this movie will be a good time.All hail Moti the Wonder Dog (as he is actually credited in the movie).