Aug 06, 2005 09:47 PM
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(Updated Aug 06, 2005 09:47 PM)
Give me my milkshake shaken and not stirred.
Time for a quickie review...
Way back in the 1979s (well, its only one year but who cares), a Bond wannabe called GUNMASTER G-9 hit the silver screen. This wasnt Pierce Brosnan, but it sure pierced the souls of a lot of dedicated moviegoers.
Mithun Chakraborty plays the secret agent in this B grade flick by the king of B grade flicks ... B Subash (now you know where his initial comes from). You are given a 'visual treat' at the beginning of the flick.... Gunmaster G-9 does a James Bond routine with some chicks wearing swimsuits.... all to the 'brilliant' (and I use that term loosely) track by another dude with B in his name... Bappi Lahiri...
Mithun isnt swivelling his hips all that much a la disco dancer but he keeps getting the chicks. The plot thickens at some point of time but I cant pinpoint at which point of time it thickened....
The Tale (if there was one)
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Suresh Oberoi is a pilot whose plane is brought down by the evil evildoers using radio signals (of all things). This organization is out to destroy the country. Guess what the criminal organization is called - The Shiv Shakti Organization... woo hoo...
The Shiv Shakti Org. kidnaps the Gunmaster's ally. They send a henchman as a replacement but G-9 with his keen sense of something, isnt fooled. G-9 wants revenge and also his buddy back. Shiv Shakti Org beware... G-9 is here.
G-9 seems to have 25 fairy godmothers looking after him. He is invincible. The Shiv Shakti Organization uses every trick in the ''How to kill a spy for Dummies'' book. No use. G-9 is invulnerable too.
He also gets chicks at the oddest times. Wonder what his secret is. Eventually he settles for Ranjeeta - a heroine of many a B grade flick. His sidekick Jagdeep can only be defined in one word - HE REEKS (well thats two words... I'm bad in math).
Well, as any spy movie would end - G-9 kicks some bad guy bottoms, dances a jig, gets the babe and saves the day (cant they ever think of a different ending to spy flicks?)
Overall G-9 isnt James Bond but he sure can do a lot of things on screen whether its avoid disasters, destroy some disco dance moves, hang out with babes wearing bikinis that resemble potato sacks or bash some goons. Mithun Chakraborty is pretty ok (if you can look at it from a certain angle)
Some features of this flick
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It spawned a sequel called WARDAT... that means if you LOVE Mithun Chaks as Gunmaster G-9, you'll get a chance to watch him all over again...
Loads of girls (who serve no purpose). The good news is that though they are out there to reveal - the bikinis of the time covered more area of skin than the sarees of today. Which might also be the bad news for some of you guys heh heh....
Every 13 seconds... some twits go ''GUNMASTERRRRRR.... G-9... G-9.... G-9... G-9''! Its enough to make your skin crawl.
Bappi Lahiri delivers a decent score. I think the percentage of plagiarism is pretty low too.
Mithun got some recognition as the ultimate spy. He can act but here he isnt required to do so.
Ranjeeta looked pretty.
Last Word
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Is this flick worth a watch? Sure... sometimes silly flicks can be great entertainment
~finis~
heh... I was watching some channel when I saw Mithun on it and remembered this beauty... had to drag it out of the mind... any flaws... pinpoint... hell... dont pinpoint... this is a quickie anyway :)
PS: I picked RECOMMEND because it might be fun to watch this when you are in a mood for some cheesy thrills....
why did I write on this? just got an urge to write something mental heh heh
