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Toronto Film Festival Dailies
The 48th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival takes place Thursday, September 7—17, 2023 in Canada's most vibrant and exciting metropolis, it has become one of the most important film events on the festival calendar. Showcasing more than 300 films and hosting industryites from around the world, Toronto can "make or break" films looking for international distribution and a chance at Oscar gold. From glitzy red carpet premieres to challenging art films to cutting edge new media, the Festival offers something for every taste. Past Coverage 2014 2015 - Coverage 2016 in French English  World Premiere of XYZ's THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN (Midnight Madness) @ TIFF
TIFF: World Premiere of THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN (Midnight Madness) took place on Fri. 9/14 - A delirious Homage to B-movie-Bollywood-Martial Arts-Comedy Mashup Mayhem.
Demented Midnight Madness TIFF World Premiere
THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN
India / 2018 / 131 min / Color / Hindi, English, Marathi, Malayalam, with English subtitles
Worldwide rights (excluding India) available / North American sales: XYZ Films
A gloriously frenetic Indian mashup / homage to VHS B-movies, kung fu shoestring epics, 80's American action films, screwball comedies, and much more. The first Indian film to play TIFF's Midnight Madness section.
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Writer/Director: Vasan Bala
Cast: Abhimanyu Dassani, Radhika Madan, Mahesh Manjrekar, Gulshan Devaiah
Filmmaker Bio:
In this Bollywood-infused action film from Vasan Bala (Peddlers, TIFF 2012), a young man literally born with the ability to feel no pain strikes out on a quest to vanquish 100 foes.
An outrageous and eccentric crowd-pleaser inspired by a heartfelt love of all things genre (B-movies, exploitation, kung fu flicks, screwball comedies, and much more), writer-director Vasan Bala puts every low budget 80's and 90's film genre into a cinematic blender to concoct this mayhem-filled mashup.
Seasoned with delirious pop-culture references and freewheeling fisticuffs, Bala's film endearingly synthesizes the infectious vivacity of Bollywood masala extravaganzas with the irreverent martial arts mayhem of vintage Stephen Chow, underpinning this amusingly serpentine story about personal empowerment.
Abhimanyu Dassani, son of popular Bollywood star Bhagyashree, makes a charismatic debut as the title character. He fights alongside rising star Radhika Madan, a fearless warrior determined to rehabilitate the honour of her one-legged karate master, Manni, who is - as one tends to be in any good martial-arts epic - caught in a gang war with his psychotic twin brother, Jimmy (Gulshan Devaiah in a remarkable dual performance, one half of which seems to be channelling Nicholas Cage circa 1997). Dassani and Madan have delightful chemistry, both in the film's numerous inventive brawls and the requisite musical set pieces. Madan shines in a progressive subplot that brims with subversive relevance.
Surprisingly, THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN is the first Indian film to be featured in the Festival's Midnight Madness section, despite that country's prolific export of gonzo cinema. It's an action-packed ode to a generation raised on the punches of Bruce Lee, the kicks of Jackie Chan, and the dance moves of Chiranjeevi.
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