Quick Gun Murugan Movie Rating

Movie: Quick Gun Murugan
My Rating: 3/5
Banner: Phat Phish Motion Pictures
Music: Daniel B. George
Cinematography: R. A. Krishna
Story & Screenplay: Rajesh Devraj
Editing: Rabi Ranjan Moitra
Producer: Phat Phish Motion Pictures
Direction: Shashanka Ghosh
Cast: Anushka, Rajendra Prasad, Nasser, Rambha, Raju Sundaram, Anu Menon etc
Telugu Release Date: 25th Sep 2009

Review

Story

The story starts in 1970's. Quick Gun Murugan (Rajendra Prasad) is a vegetarian cowboy who is against killing cows and other animals. He takes it as his duty to protect the world against non-vegetarians. Rice Place Reddy (Nasser) is on a mission to convert all vegetarian hotels into non-vegetarian hotels so that he could expand his chain of non-veg hotels. In the process, he confronts Quick Gun Murugan and succeeds in killing him. Quick Gun Murugan is taken to heaven and there he appeals to Chitra Gupta (Vinay Pathak) about how the fate has terminated his mission to save the world from non-vegetarianism. A convinced Chitra Gupta sends him back to the earth. And it is 2007 by the time he returns. By now, Rice Plate Reddy became all-powerful food baron who is on the verge of coming up with 'Mc Dosa' brand of hotels that serve only non-vegetarian dosas. The rest of the story is all about how Quick Gun Murugan saves the world.

Artists Performance:

Rajendra Prasad comes up with another entertaining performance. Language might be different, but the comedy timing is same for Rajendra Prasad even in English version. He is just perfect. He has to look serious and at the same time he need to make us laugh. His dialogue delivery is too good. Rambha is charming and sensuous as 'Mango Dolly'. Nassar entertains as a Rice Place Reddy who gets tensed whenever he listens to Murugan name. Raju Sundaram did the role of Rowdy MBA and he is nice. Ashwin Mushran's foreign accent is good. Vinay Pathak is apt as Chitra Gupta. Sandhya Mridul and Ranvir Sheroy did the roles of TV reporters. Anu Menon (Lola Kutti of Channel V) did the role of QGM's locket love.

Technical Departments:

Quick Gun Murugan is based on a character developed by Rajesh Devraj for a 2-minute spoof on Channel V. Rajesh developed a full legth story on this character by making it a spoof on all routine Indian potboilers of 1970's and spaghetti westerns. It is an outrageously funny script handled neatly by the director Shashank Ghosh. There are funny and wacky moments in the movie. The director has stuck to quirky way narration and succeeded in tickling your funny bone. They made spoofs on cow-boy movies, maa sentiment, vamp character, dialogues of typical indian heroes, old Tamil films etc. However, there is gore and bloodshed in this movie. I have liked the following things in this movie -

1. The flashback episode where spaghetti western is mixed with sambar and masala dasa.
2. Naming of various departments: Yamalokam as ministry of deaths and another place as institute of coconut climbing. The entire Yamaloka administration is replicated with typical government officer's set-up.
3. Tears of Quickgun falling into the whiskey glass.
3. The gun fights of Murugan (generally we get description of these fights with Rajnikant as caricature in forwarded e-mails. Rajni himself has done it in the last song of his blockbuster Sivaji)
4. Murugan's girlfriend locked up in a locket.
5. Mango Dolly stealing the blue print from the underwear of Rice Place Reddy.
6. The music of the movie (happy birthday tune for death scene) and the way cowboy music is played with Indian instruments.

Camera work of the movie is alright. Dialogues are very funny. Especially 'mind it' and 'i say' which are made popular on Quickgun Murugan series of Channel V. Music is funny and entertaining. Art direction deserves appreciation for coming up with creative work with a limited budget. This movie is made on shoe-string budget.

Final Analysis:

If you are a guy who likes the spoofs on Channel V, Quick Gun Murugan is for you. The plus points are ever-green Rajendra Prasad as the green cowboy and the comedy. The negative points are blood shed and boring moments towards climax. There is a bit of Tamil language in the movie. Telugu guys are advised to watch the English version of the movie to get an authentic feel of the movie.