Quick Gun Murugun: Misadventures of an Indian Cowboy (2009)

A once-dead vegetarian cowboy is sent back to life to battle a beef-eating villain.

Director:

Shashanka Ghosh

Writer:

Rajesh Devraj (story, screenplay, dialogue)

Stars:

Rajendraprasad, Nasser, Rambha

Cast

Credited cast:
Rajendraprasad	...	Quick Gun Murugan
Nasser	...	Rice Plate Reddy
Rambha	...	Mango Dolly
Raju Sundaram	...	Rowdy MBA
Vinay Pathak	...	Chitragupta
Ashwin Mushran	...	Dr. Django
Sandhya Mridul	...	Masala News Reporter
Ranvir Shorey	...	Sansani Reporter (as Ranveer Shorey)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kottam Babu
Kishori Balal	...	Mrs. S.G. Murugun (as Kishori Ballal)
C.V. Bhanumati	...	Kidnapped Mum
Ramesh Chandra
Rajagopal Iyer
Sajid Khan
Shiv Kumar

Storyline

Quick Gun Murugun is a western spoof with attitude, featuring outlandish songs, outrageous melodrama and crazy action sequences including a classic duel in a traffic jam. The film tells the story of Quick Gun Murugun - a South Indian karmic cowboy whose duty is to protect and cows. When faced with a world-conquering arch villain restaurant owner who wants to create the ultimate McDosa chain using beef, Quick Gun enters into an epic battle of vegetarianism vs. non-vegetarianism that spans time and space, from a small South Indian village to an Indian heaven and then finally to a cosmopolitan Mumbai across 15 years.

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Plot Keywords:

gun | traffic | cowboy | western spoof | vegetarian | 

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Taglines:

MIND IT!

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Drama

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

English Hindi Telugu Tamil

Release Date:

28 August 2009 (India)

Also Known As:

Quick Gun Murugun

Filming Locations:

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fox STAR Studios, Phat Phish Motion Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min (European Film Market)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film was dubbed in over 4 languages, including Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

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Quotes

Quick Gun Murugan: If You are Lightening and Thunder, I am 250 Volt Current... Mind it...

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Soundtracks

Mind It

• Feat. Mika Singh

lyrics by Ankur Tiwari

User Reviews

A Nutshell Review: Quick Gun Murugun

His name is Quick Gun Murugun, mind it! And I think the passengers around me would have thought I was mad enough to watch an Indian film, and an Indian cowboy one at that, laughing out loud in almost every scene which I can't help to because it's just so funny.

I mean, face it, here's probably the only Indian vegetarian Cowboy hero whose main objective in life is to take care of the cows (well, at least that's what cowboys do he believes), as well as being the guardian of the sacred animal of course. Armed with no more than two 6-shooters and a fancy gunplay technique, Quick Gun Murugun (Dr Rajandra Prasad) protects the meek from meat-eating gangsters such as Rice Plate Reddy (Nasser) who has megalomaniac plans to rid the world of vegetarianism!

Sounds dastardly, but not if our hero can help it, while juggling with his relationship woes with Locket Lover (Anu Menon) who resides in, well, his locket! For all the garish colours in his outfit of choice, the villains he goes up against is just as colourful, with names such as Gun Powder (Shanmughraja) and Rowdy MBA (Raju Sundaram), each with their own comical quirks that fans of Indian cinema would come to appreciate, and chuckle at. And despite our hero possessing some great skill with his pistols (head shots only, no less), he comes with an inherent weakness, and that's the number of bullets his pistols can store, before getting soundly beaten.

It's actually two films in one, with a time travelling and supernatural elements brought in for good measure, and more laughter. In present day Mumbai, he continues to seek out his arch enemy Rice Plate, who has gone on to start McDosa, a fast food chain bent on making Dosa from meat thanks to the recipe of Dr Django (Ashwin Mushran). And while waiting for more gunslinging action, there's another romantic subplot thrown in which involved Rice Plate's current moll Mango Dolly (Rambha), and how Quick Gun's now a fish out of water,

If you find the plot quite ridiculous, it actually is! And everything is just so hammed up, from the saturated colours, acting and dialogue, that it's actually incredibly smart in knowing when to hit the right notes, making you do double takes at just about every scene. Sight gags are galore too, and I reckon with every re-watch you'll find something new to laugh at, either from signages in some corner, or by the dialogue which come in healthy doses of Inglish.

If you're game for some irreverent comedy and one that has plenty of gags, then watch Quick Gun Murugun, which I endorse, I say!