Superman Meets Bollywood

Album cover of Dariya-Dil (via Rare Bollywood LP Covers)

When superheros take a trip to Bollywood, hilarious things tend to happen. Case in point, the 1988 film Dariya-Dil, a monument to shockingly bad special effects and costume design. After all of ten seconds into the cheese filled dance routine between Superman and Spiderwoman, I felt my stomach cramping up, so hard I was laughing. Here's a clip from the film:

But wait! There's more! The film Dariya-Dil certainly had what it takes to make even the most resilient fan of DC Comics ill, but a movie that completely and totally rips off the classic Superman film has got to be seen to be believed.

Screen shot of the Bollywood version of Superman.

Stomptokyo.com has a very in depth review, here's a snippet:

You will believe a movie can suck.

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. 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. Because the entire movie is in Hindi with no subtitles, we have spent many hours in the Stomp Tokyo Secret Labs deciphering its plot. With the help of specially trained translators (okay, a friend who speaks Hindi) and sophisticated Bad Movie Shielding technology (okay, the pause button and lots of root beer), we have successfully dissected this Holy Grail of bad movies. We present a detailed synopsis and analysis of this 150-minute monstrosity as proof of our dedication, our courage, our insanity.

Here is a clip from the film, which is worth suffering through until the end, just to see what Superman and a slow moving plane on the airport tarmac have in common:

Comments

[Putin V.V.]

Добрый вечер. Российский кинематограф уже ведет съемки нового фильма про бэтмена. Бетмена будет играть М.Боярский. Его подругу Л.Гурченко. Робин - Чадов. Главный злодей - Панин. Режиссер фильма Н.Михалков отвел себе скромную роль Бога.