the man who feels no pain

mkdnhflying.jpg

THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN Review: Growing Pains Make The Gains In This Delightful, Groundbreaking Action Comedy

Vasan Bala’s latest venture, The Man Who Feels No Pain, marks a huge milestone, in my view, for martial arts action. It’s a production from a major company halfway around the world, and one with a director who knows talent when he sees it. He saw it in his cast, and it certainly helps that he saw it in the requisite stunt talents he needed. That includes Eric Jacobus and Dennis Ruel, and it wasn’t just whim decision making as anyone who follows the genre knows at least half of what Jacobus and Ruel are capable of. This was mainly my inspiration for wanting to see this film so badly since it began hitting festivals last year. Unfortunately I had to wait like everyone else until it hit Netflix, and despite having to see it on such a small screen, at the very least I can attest that it is […]

More

15580845365601418947842.png

THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN Arrives On Netflix May 22

It’s a real fiasco sometimes waiting to see when and where some films will get a legitimate release. Peddlers helmer Vasan Bala’s acclaimed martial arts comedy, The Man Who Feels No Pain, fits right into this subject matter after screening to some of the biggest critical praise I’ve ever read about for a film of its kind since its screenings in Toronto and Mumbai last year. The film just made the festival rounds at the Dallas Fort Worth South Asian Film Festival and will finally hit Netflix on May 22. It’s a pretty big deal on top of being some of the best news to learn during what has been a great month for global action cinema, especially in the wake of such hits like Frant Gwo’s The Wandering Earth, Lee Jeong Beom’s Jo Pil-Ho: The Dawning Rage (f.k.a. The Bad Lieutenant), and Pedring Lopez’s highly deserving sequel-bound hit, Maria. […]

More

Bloodmoon-1.jpg

FESTIVE FILM BITS: Invincible Fighters, Kung Fu Killers, Schwarzengger And More

I’ve missed posting about a few events this month, but here’s some worth taking a gander at: At current, there’s still no wide U.S. release update yet for director Vasan Bala’s award-winning hit Indian martial arts comedy opus, The Man Who Feels No Pain. Still. And THAT hurts. STILL. At least for some, thankfully, there still lies hope for local areas stateside who still run festival screenings. Thus, this particular, and STILL highly celebrated hit movie out of festival circulation in Toronto and Mumbai last year will also get its day on May 18 at this year’s attending crowd for the DFW South Asian Film Festival. Starring Abhimanyu Dassani and Radhika Madani and employing the stewardship of action director duo Eric Jacobus and Dennis Ruel, the film centers on a young boy who grows up with a congenitial tolerance to pain – a condition with which he applies through training […]

More

fb_img_1551736679248417281825.jpg

THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN Dishes Out Plenty In The New Official Trailer

The road sure seemed like a longer one between now and last year’s Toronto premiere for Vasan Bala’s The Man Who Feels No Pain. The reason for such windows apart from any sort of meticulous and otherwise necessary film bureaucracy is beyond me, but at long last, moviegoers are just a few weeks away from seeing Abhimanyu Dassani and actress Radhika Madan light up the big screen, Rope-A-Dope style through the efforts of action stylists Eric Jacobus and Dennis Ruel. In this Bollywood-infused action film from Vasan Bala (Peddlers), a young man quite literally born with the ability to feel no pain strikes out on a quest to vanquish 100 foes. Our own Alex Chung, who himself is a stunt performer and independent filmmaker, was able to attend TIFF last year and catch up with his own review. In his critique, he especially heralded the action with respect to the […]

More

.facebook_1551736734306.jpg1349993393.jpg

THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN Tests His Threshold In These New Posters

The week of March 22 is gonna be packed with big screen fervor for moviegoers. Take the release of Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota – The Man Who Feels No Pain, for example, from director Vasan Bala who is still drawing some of the warmest reception stemming from its screenings previously at Mumbai and Toronto and onward. Opening on March 21, it’ll be contending with some great company like Jesse V. Johnson’s Triple Threat and S. Craig Zahler’s Dragged Across Concrete to name a few, though martial arts aficionados loyal to the creative efforts of independent action auteurs Eric Jacobus and Dennis Ruel will undoubtedly be pleased in this one if the glowing reviews its getting have any to say. Enter Abhimanyu Dassani and Radhika Madan who take the stage in two recent promos for the film. The setup? Dassani is a man born with a rare condition that desensitizes […]

More

20190211_131746.jpg

Vasan Bala’s THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN Debuts A Poster That Fondly Foundates On Fandom

March 21 is the date for cinephiles and moviegoers keen on the festival scene and the innovative workings of Eric Jacobus whose vision for supple, creative and high-energy action direction and fight choreography has made him one of the most innovative and sought after stunt professionals in the world. And I mean THE WORLD. It was The Man Who Feels No Pain director Vasan Bala who contacted him to help “…do Rope-A-Dope action in a Bollywood film.” (re: Jacobus’ two beloved action comedy shorts on YouTube) back in 2016. Jacobus documents the process exquisitely in a personal blog post in which he outlines the nexus of multitude intracies incorporated in a process he calls “Vertical Intergration”. Fans following Jacobus on social media will get an ample whiff of that going forward as Jacobus engages 2019 with an aim to introduce fans to how he’s anteing up the field of evolutionary […]

More

IMG_20180817_054507.jpg

Trailer: Vasan Bala’s THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN Looks As Good As It Hurts

Director Vasan Bala has several credits in many facets for the film projects he’s worked on – namely in screenwriting and assistant directing aspects. For this, it was his 2012 crime pic, Peddlers, which set forth a pretty good precedent for his later work now leading up to a what looks to be a rousing world premiere at TIFF next month in Toronto for his sophomore outing, The Man Who Feels No Pain. The official trailer emerged on Thursday featuring debut actor Abhimanyu Dasani in the title role, born with a congenitive disease that renders him painless upon injury, and a growing desire to fight crime and vanquish 100 foes. Joining Dasani is relative newcomer Radhika Madan with both showcasing their feats in the witty drama and comedy that cosign the action – the latter which comes with a delightful sweetner. Following the Instagram hashtag, #MKDNH (short for Mard Ko […]

More