Comments on: Indian Superman

Indian Superman

rks404 — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:15:17 -0800

Indian Superman is a movie of questionable legality released in India in the mid eighties. Perhaps it should have had a wider release since it has a great deal of humorous appeal for Western audiences. Check out this review from Stomp Tokyo. I'm looking forward to a crossover when Indian Superman meets Indian Spider-Man. via Sepia Mutiny

By: bobo123

bobo123 — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:35:58 -0800

Interesting, not quite as big a ripoff as "Turkish Star Wars", where Turkish actors are spliced together with special effects from the actual Star Wars movie.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:51:07 -0800

Please tell me that Superman does a plot-irrelevant lip sync and dance with two really hot indian girls.

By: riffola

riffola — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:53:54 -0800

I've seen this movie and it sucks beyond belief. It's not worth seeking out.

By: leapfrog

leapfrog — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:08:41 -0800

See also: 3 Dev Adam (Three Mighty Men), in which Turkish Captain America and Turkish Santo (think Lucha Libre) team up to take on Evil Turkish Spiderman. Oh, and then there's the infamous "Death by Guinea Pig" scene. Bollywood may well have a stranglehold on the bizarre superhero movie ripoff industry, but thanks to the Turks it isn't yet a monopoly.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:19:59 -0800

I'm actually glad to see another country borrow and rework American (*was about to say "our"*) pop culutre and turn it into their own. It gives us all a weird feeling to see Superman doing the lip sync serenade in the upper octaves, and so it should. We've been exporting crap culture to the rest of the world for too long. It's high time someone perverted it for their own purposes.

By: haqspan

haqspan — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:09:37 -0800

Hooray for plagerism! This Superman, namely the Indian Superman, is a stone cold rip-off of the 1978 Richard Donner film. It steals story elements, special effects footage, and even music from that far superior film. Nothing warms the cockles like theft.

By: Miles Long

Miles Long — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:52:25 -0800

It's high time someone perverted it for their own purposes. Why not? That's what we do. That's where all our culture comes from anyway.

By: Gyan

Gyan — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:16:36 -0800

riffola: I've seen this movie and it sucks beyond belief. That's exactly why it's worth seeking out.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:51:15 -0800

I was being genuine, Miles Long, which I think means we agree. No? The alternative to reworking american pop culture would be to just replay it as-is, which is the norm in much of the world. India has the entertainment complex in place to strip stuff down and build it back up again. But other parts of the world aren't so lucky, and get nothing but BayWatch reruns ad infinitum.

By: madman

madman — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:57:56 -0800

Those Indians are crazy, I tell you!