QUICK GUN MURUGAN (India, 2009)
Directed by: Shashanka Ghosh
Starring: Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Nasser, Rambha

“I am Quick Gun Murugan. Mind it.” And with that immortal tag line the iconic Quick Gun Murugan was born in a series of short films back in 1993 that were commissioned to promote MTV India. Years later, director Shashanka Ghosh has turned his nutso shorts into this feature film and the best way to describe it is a Tamil comedy about a singing, vegetarian six-armed cowboy named Quick Gun Murugan. “We are like this only,” he says, in another of the movie’s famous catch phrases. Which, like the film itself, doesn’t make much sense, but it sounds good.

Quick Gun (Dr. Rajendra Prasad) is a vegetarian cowboy in heavy make-up back in the early 80’s who goes up against a gang of meat-eating “non-veg” thugs led by the greedy, grasping Rice Plate Reddy (Nasser) whose men mock thin-blooded vegetarians and spit on their vegetables. Fortunately, Quick Gun is there to kick their butts. However, he’s killed in an ambush. The end? Not quite. God resurrects Quick Gun in the present specifically to defeat Rice Plate Reddy whose massive McDosa corporation is going to serve beef dosas all over India from its automatic Dosa machines which lack one vital ingredient...a mother’s love. But once he kidnaps enough mothers from all over India to secure his supply of mother love no one will be able to stop him. No one except Quick Gun Murugan, that is.

This hilariously bizarre movie is an anthem for heavily armed vegetarians everywhere and Murugan with his heavily made-up face, oil slick hair and dude ranch duds is a hero for our times. As colorful as a cheap pop poster, painted in lurid pinks and neon greens this is a movie that will teach you that we are all like this only. By the time the titular gunfighter sprouts a hundred arms to beat the bad guys you will all be walking out of the theater ready to take on the non-veg creeps out there in the world with a six shooter on your hip and a sassy, “Mind it,” on your lips.