Quick Gun Moron - Mind It , I say !

The Verdict is out : Quick Gun Murugan is far, far away from being anything funny.

I am hardly a fan of movies but I must say that some movies of late have much to be said about them. Quick Gun Murugan had the honour of being watched by me.

The conversation in the movie was majorly in not-so-alien-yet-alien Tamil language. Tamil helps retain the flavour of the character in the film, but then it’s a language I can’t understand to even save my life. Though there were subtitles of course, it needed more than 90 minutes to get me totally immersed in the movie.

Everything was larger than life, literally blown out of proportion and this illusion is maintained throughout. The characters, with their dress, make up, their language, the picturization, the sound – were superb (All sarcasm Intended)

Oh, what is the movie about, do you ask? It is a spoof about this guy Mr. Quick Gun Murugan, with the most flamboyant style and the most garish outfits ever seen on any hero. Hats off to this gaudily dressed pot bellied Tamil cowboy , an unlikely superhero with a heart of gold (don’t miss the gold heart locket hanging in his neck all the time ) and a tongue that shoots off punchy one-liners sleeker than the reverberating bullets from his gun.




This movie definitely reminded me of Rajnikant as it is based on a cameo done by Shah Rukh Khan in ‘Om Shanti Om’, where he had copied the Tamil Superstar. The fight scenes portray Quick Gun Murugan as a superman, the way he manages to overpower scores of goons at one go is just like Rajnikant.


The story is not difficult to understand. Good versus evil. Quick Gun Murugan- a middle-aged, pot-bellied cowboy out to save the world from non-vegetarianism, takes up the cause of vegetarianism. He’s the dosa-loving superhero who embraces vegetarianism and takes on his arch rival Rice Plate Reddy (Non vegetarian with vegetarian name Rascala ),who wants to make world’s A1 tip top, perfect, non-veg dosas.

There are some of the wackiest names and characters in the movie. Chitragupta for example is a Gujarati man named C Gupta, Rowdy MBA, Mango Dolly to name a few. There’s a McDosa Corporation, there’s an Institute for Coconut Tree Climbing, Well-Known Lodge and the Ministry of Death ( yamlok ) Each personality has their exclusive melodious track which plays when they come in a movie scene. Things like these would be funny in primary school. To give it to the actors, they have really lived up to their exaggerated characters.

The lack of sustaining power in the movie content makes this one and a half hour movie also appear real long.The tone of the film is frustratingly inconsistent, so outrageous that I can’t even laugh at it.

If people say that sometimes we don’t want to use our grey cells while watching movies, this movie challenges every sense of logic one may have. I must say that it takes some sense to come up with entertaining nonsense. I am thinking hard of something that I can say I liked.... I pass.