"The Earth is my bed, the Sky my ceiling and the Whole World is my Native place" and the camera pans to the sambhar guzzling fastest gun slinger south of the Vindhyas, in the most gaudiest costume ever imagined. I'm sure Clint Eastwood would have had a heart attack if he just caught a glimpse of Quick Gun Murugan. First imagineered by Shashanka Ghosh for Channe[V] nearly a decade ago, QGM appeared in small titbits, with the punchline Mind It!!!. Though it made a mockery of tamilians in general, I loved the character, and particularly one of his famous lines where QGM orders for "Oru Whisky, Oru Masala Dosa". The movie is a commendable effort to bring QGM to the big screen and full marks for keeping the plot ridiculously simple and enjoyable. Full of gags and rib tickling humour the movie is a laugh riot from the beginning to the end, and if you can understand a bit of tamil it enhances the laughter quotient even further. Nasser plays Rice Plate Reddy whose sole ambition is to dominate the world with his non-vegetarian dosas ably guided by Raju Sundaram aka Rowdy MBA and Gunpowder with his Molagapodi gang. Our "Pull Thingara Cowboy" (Grass eating cowboy) must stop his evil nefarious plans as he is a cowboy and his duty is to save cows. With an ensemble cast of Channel[V] VJ's thrown in for a good measure: Locket Lover:Lola Kutty, Gaurav kapoor, etc, and the Mumbai Moll Mango Dolly played exquisitely by Rambha theres never a dull moment in the flick. The exchange of dialogues and the situational comedy give the movie the added punch in the laugh meter. Consider these dailogues in tamil converted to english:
Gunpowder tries to get a lil close to a babe (An overweight mami in saree)
QGM: Leave the Ladies, I say
Gunpowder annoys QGM by drinking his whisky and says: You better drink some country liquor, you grass eating cowboy.
QGM: I will teach you a lesson.
Gunpowder: You dont take the trouble, I will learn in a correspondence course. guffaws
QGM's eyes are blazing with anger.
Gunpowder: What happened you look as if a scorpion has stung your private parts.
In another memorable scene QGM is granted by chitragupta to get back on earth to complete his unfinished job, and QGM arrives through a Time portal a-la Schwarzenegger style in Terminator without clothes and all. He goes to meet his elder brother in Mumbai and both brothers indulge in a quick draw firing session damaging their house, and QGM's anni (elder sister) has tears of joy in her eyes. Its moments like these, where attention to details have been religiously followed and the movie comes out as a winner. My personal best scene in the movie:
After a heavy dinner on plantain leafs at Mango Dolly's place both QGM and Mango retire to their bedroom. The camera pans over to QGM's clothes lying all over the place. After some time
Mango:"So how was it for you?"
QGM: "From next time put some more elaichi in the payasam"......
If you are in the mood for a no brainer laughathon I would seriously recommend Quick Gun Murugun. Go have some fun, I say and as in the words of Mango Dolly: This movie is Romba Jolly....
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