‘Quick Gun Murugun’ Popular In International Festival Circuit

[jayanthi mandhalapu]

Recently, released flick 'Quick Gun Murugun - Misadventures of an Indian Cowboy' which is about a vegetarian superhero  may have not got good response at the Indian box office, but director Shashanka Ghosh is happy  as the film has become popular in the international festival circuit.

The film has been showcased at film festivals in Athens, Durban, London, Florence, Los Angeles, New York and Washington.

Shashanka Ghosh said, "We've had to schedule an extra screening for 'Quick Gun...' at all the festivals because it has always been a sell-out. There was a lot of pressure by viewers for the movie".

The "international version" of the film is "totally different" from the original. "It's a longer version than the Indian one because a lot more explanation has been given for the international audience as they would need more time to absorb", the director said.

"It's a masala film with themes, characters and formats that Indian audiences understand naturally but we need to give the rest of the cultures a little more breathing time to understand our humour," added Ghosh.

The director has really worked hard for the film and it took him almost 15 years to bring "Quick Gun..." to the big screen.

The director explained."Everyone said that it won't work in India as the audience won't understand it. I thought if the audience can understand it back then in the 1990s then why not now? Then they said making a 30-second run for TV was different from making a two-hour movie. Moreover, I wanted to do it in the original (Tamil-English), which was also getting a bit difficult until Phat Phish ventured in. So it took long".