Back in SM’s youth, we brought you the story of Indian Superman (posted in 2004! We was the OG playas on the Desi Blogging scene yo).
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It takes a lot of brylcreem to get that curly lock just so… |
[Indian Superman] is one of those rare movies that manages to offend on every level. It is badly acted, badly directed, badly filmed, and makes no sense whatsoever. And just to add that extra level of offensiveness, the whole project is probably illegal.
Why Illegal? Well, here’s the most direct / literal reason -
The movie starts with thundering music playing over the sight of a cityscape from some advanced alien civilization - hey, wait a minute! That music is from the American Superman movie! So are those special effects shots!
Ah, the beauty of cut & paste 
‘04 was the pre-YouTube Internet and, at the time, we weren’t able to post any clips of the flick. Luckily, the world has evolved and clips are now far easier to find (here’s one, presumably from the film’s climactic ending where Superman saves an otherwise-doomed Indian Airlines flight).
Of new interest to long time mutineers, however, it appears that Puneet Issar and Dharmendra Deol have passed the Superman baton on to a host of desi sequels…
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Supermenon makes the original Indian Superman look positively trim… |
Not content to let swarthy Punjabi’s from the north trample the rights to the Superman franchise on their own, my boyz decided the world needed a South Indian Superman (a Supermenon?). Because the first step in cultural domination is to use The Man’s alphabet the way he intended, our hero instead defiantly dons the letter “H.”
In the following clip, to further show The Man that our man, is in fact, The Man, he lands on the moon next to the Apollo Lunar Lander, flies over the Kremlin, Capital Hill, Big Ben, the Parthenon (so it appears), and Hong Kong all while his honey dances on his back. Christopher Reeve ain’t got nothing on our Boy.
Ah, but the North must fight back. Instead of ripping off just one superhero, they bring us 2. And to help sneak things past the MPAA, we’ll change the second hero into a woman — Introducing Indian Superman and Desi Spiderwoman -
To be clear, this is just a superhero-themed segment from the otherwise pedestrian movie Dariya Dil performed to (what else?) “Too Mera Superman (You are my Superman).” Never underestimate the lengths a Bollywood director / producer will go to beat last years top song & dance number .
