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Gunda


Recently during a random TV channel browsing session I came across a show in NDTV dedicated to movie GUNDA, a B-Grade masterpiece which has gained a stature of gigantic proportions.Many of us might not haver heard of the movie, but of the rest I assume most of them might have seen the movie, and a substantial proportion would have enjoyed it!! It is a kind of movie that fits into the definition of a cult classic!!


The Orkut community of the IMDB 8.7/10 rated Gunda has thousands of fans, most of them can be classified under category of 'die-hard fans'. This movie has got a huge viewer base in engineering collecges and B-schools, and there are people whio consider your life as futile and worthless if you haven't seen this epic masterpiece.
And there are considerable chances that the movie might make to the list of 50 all time greats, if there are enough votes keeping its ratings at the same level!!


This Kanti Shah directed movie has the one and only Mithunda (fondly called as Prabhuji) in its lead role, (which can be called role of a lifetime) who plays a robinhood-type revenge seeking coolie in some airport/ shipyard/ random roads, and takes on the evil goons who are menace to society, who have murdered his father, who don't allow people to live peacefully.
The scenes in the movie include random murders and rapes on random roads, airports, dockyards each underscored by some poetic verses, exactly in same poetic manner in which the charaters introduce themselves. But the element of film making that rules the roost are the dialogues which are out of the world. Just check the Gunda fan club on Orkut to have a look. It is a blashphemy to post them on lesser things like blogs.
There is Bulla, there is Ibu Hatela, Potey and many other characters with names which can be described in range of adjectives from crazy to unmentionable!

There are some movies which are so bad that you enjoy it, and in that genre Gunda undoubtedly takes the cake.
Hats off to Kanti shah and Mithunda combo !
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