The Magical Mystery Movie Tour

The mystery behind the movie that I referred to in a previous post has been really irritating me and I finally got down to looking it up with my trusty search engine Google. Following up on a clue that Anamika had so kindly provided, I first searched for ‘SaiKumar’, no nothing here, I found a huge list of movies he’s acted in but none fit the bill. I was getting tired and frustrated so in a fit of desperation, I tried a search for the caption, ‘When God is silent, he is violent’; and there they were, three links to movie review sites.
As it turns out the name of the movie is ‘Thirupathi’, not ‘Thruth’ as I had mistakenly read. Here’s a brief review of the movie I found on one site, complete with Indianised grammar;

When God is silent he is violent. That is Thirupathi.
…There is nothing new in the story. It is the same old revenge saga after beaten life in the beginning days.
Thiru (Sudeep) has served 10 years in jail and in these years he has grown up tough. Thanks to his mother and jailor. He is good in studies and sports. As he grows he becomes a tough cop.
… It is Michel Raj the king maker who is behind all ruckus in the society. This Michel Raj is nothing but Dhanraj father of ACP Thirupathi.
…Now the one point agenda of ACP Thirupathi is to destroy the empire of Michel Raj as he has done injustice to his mother…
... He uses his power to relieve him from the cop job. Now Thirupathi finds it easy to take on things…
…he makes everyone believe that Michel Raj gang has done the killing. Now the Home Minister completely tensed asks Thirupathi to save his son. In return Thirupathi ask for reverting him back to duties and shoot at sight order to end Michel Raj. With uniform and order on his hand Thirupathi goes on a hunt but his mother and fiancée are kidnapped by Michel as expected….
This is a feast for action lovers. No disappointment for Sudeep fans

I know you won’t be able to make much sense of the storyline from this heavily edited review but believe me; you really don’t want to know the rest.

So that’s that taken care of, next; Ainz made a reference to a particular south Indian actor who catches bullets with his teeth, well there is only one man who does shite like that, the indomitable Rajnikanth.
Rajnikanth along with a few other south Indian actors like NT Ramarao, MGR and Jayalalitha and Karunanidhi (a scriptwriter) are worshipped across south India, to the extent that most of them have based successful political campaigns based on their popularity. Their fans worship them; build temples in their honour and riot when anything happens to them. Schwarzanegger may be governor but he’s got nothing on these people.
Rajnikanth is known up north but not for being a great actor but for crazy antics in his movies, here are some I’ve heard off, keep in mind these are based solely on what I’ve heard so they may not be entirely true, though knowing Rajnikanth, they probably are.

Scene 1, Rajnikanth is on one side of a wall and the bad guy is on the other side, he picks up a metal pan and chucks it in the air. As it is about to go over the wall, he shoots at it, the bullet ricochets off the pan and hits the baddie.

Scene 2, Rajnikanth has no bullets left in his revolver, but the bad guy does. The villain shoots at him, Rajnikanth slides out the bullet holding thingy of the revolver and catches the bullet with it, then he takes the bullet out, turns it around, puts it back in and shoots the bad guy with it.

Scene 3, Rajnikanth has one bullet in his revolver and there are two bad guys, he also has a knife. What would a normal hero do? Naturally, he would shoot one and try getting the other one with the knife. Aah, but you forget this is not just any hero, this be Rajnikanth. He places his blade in front of the barrel and shoots; the bullet splits in two and kills both the evildoers and puts an end to their evildoing.

What I really love south Indian movies are the fight sequences, while in Bollywood, they go at it without thinking, South Indian heroes have to pause to tie up their Lungi first, fuck that’s funny.