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We all have a soft spot for Bollywood.
From the incredible dance routines to the music, the stunning actresses and - of course
- the hilarious action scenes.
There’s something charming about the effects and concepts that Bollywood filmmakers come
up with.
They’re unique, entertaining, and you can tell they have fun in the writer’s room.
Which is exactly the topic at hand today as we highlight the Top 10 Hilarious Bollywood
Movie Scene Stunts.
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10.
Neckbreakingly Funny Sometimes, Bollywood will delve into the frightening
and gory elements of film and portray the human body doing some very unnatural things.
I like to think of it as a type of violence-induced exorcism for bad guys.
It’s like in The Exorcist when the little girl’s head turns all the way around, but
instead of being possessed, these men just got in a fight with the wrong man.
In these two scenes, we see how a ferocious kick will literally break the neck of a man
that turns him into an owl, but not before some fancy leg work that even Michael Jackson
would be envious over.
9.
Beware Of Sticks While Bollywood films are big on showing big
guns and lots of bullet-catching stunts, they’ll also go back to the basics frequently to knock
people out with just sticks.
This scene shows us an example of how Bollywood will look at a stick and see so many possibilities.
We see a rickshaw in mid-air being essentially used as a weapon.
In the struggle, the stick hits one of the men in the face, knocking him to the ground.
Now, if we only knew it was that easy to win a fight, huh?
There’s another scene in a Bollywood movie where a car is speeding towards a handcuffed
man.
He just grabs a stick and the car is in the air like it hit a ramp!
All you need is a handy flying rickshaw, a stick, and a little bit of Bollywood magic.
8.
Super Indian Horses This is one of Bollywood’s more famous scenes.
It shows a man escaping on-horse from, well, I don’t really know from whom, but he’s
very concerned.
We can only assume he’s running for his life because why else would he possibly pull
what he’s about to do?
He’s cut off on his escape by a large truck and instead of doing what real horses could
be trained to do, jump over it, the Bollywood movie has him - still on the horse - go under
instead.
That’s right, the horse is turned on its side, the man is still “riding” the horse,
and they somehow both come out on the other end intact.
We don’t really see the horse get back up, but we assume that they come through without
an issue and continue their, um, high-speed chase.
7.
Sling Chicken & Banana Sword I would love to have been a fly on the wall
of the writing room for this one.
Just imagine, you’re trying to figure out what you’re going to do for this film.
The script initially says there has to be some sort of struggle or battle between two
characters.
It’s going to get bloody.
However, one of the writers stands up dramatically and says “I’ve got it!
He’s going to start the battle with a slingshot.
But, instead of a rock, he’s going to throw a chicken” this is the result of that idea.
The battle couldn’t get boring after that, so they also had to write in that he’d use
a banana as a small sword.
After peeling it, of course.
Genius!
6.
Man Outruns A Train In Hollywood films, we also love to see heroes
outrun and go against a full-speed train.
We see it in Marvel movies, The Incredibles do it, any hero who is anybody needs to do
it in order to have social proof.
Oh, you’ve rescued children from burning buildings but haven’t stopped a full-speed
train?
I don’t know if you’re right for this job...
Well, this Bollywood hero would have passed with flying colors.
He rescues a man from this car that crashed on the train tracks and then outran said train,
strategically placed on a bridge for suspense... but, he does it for a really long time.
We get it, Bollywood, he’s faster than a train!
Let’s move it along already.
5.
Spontaneous Vehicle Jumps Something I’ll never understand is how Bollywood
explains the spontaneous jumping of vehicles.
Somehow, Bollywood films are totally accepting of vehicles getting onto invisible ramps and
rising into the air.
They go from going really fast to being basically used as full-on weapons, heading full-force
towards a bunch of people.
Whether it’s a boat, or a motorbike, or a car, it doesn’t matter!
Vehicles do not just go from the surface to the air just like that!
But I guess horses don’t just slide under trucks and you can’t kill people with bananas
so, whatever.
4.
Next-level Eye Gouging To have your eyes gouged out has to be awful.
I mean, even thinking about gouging someone else’s eyes out gives me the creeps.
The feeling of eyes under my thumbs, maybe some liquid comes out, or you hear a popping
sound...
But that seems to not be a fear for other people.
Like this guy, who will willingly fly at his opponents just to gouge their eyes out.
Then he waves his hands around to, maybe dry off the eye juices or something.
If that doesn’t make him the scariest man in Bollywood, I don’t know what would.
3.
Flying Cars And Motorbikes Another thing we often see, and I can’t
seem to understand, is why vehicles always have to be flying.
We’re not even talking “went too fast over a hill” flying.
It’s like actual flying.
In this scene, we see a man ditch his car as it speeds (again weirdly jumping into mid-air)
towards a helicopter.
In this one, a car is hurled into the sky after a man shoots a gun at the ground.
I guess the power of the bullet sent it flying in the other direction?
And then it lands dramatically after having visited the stratosphere.
Then we have a motorbike that seems to flawlessly fly and a man who lands it like it’s nothing.
Sometimes, like in this video, the cars hover in the air for just a little too long.
Regardless, it seems to be vastly popular and I’m shocked that India hasn’t already
invented the flying car.
2.
Must Have Great Hair This is what castings must say for hero roles
in Bollywood.
Not only do you have to probably do your own stunts, but your hair also has to be gorgeous
and full.
Check out this guy’s hair as he launches his enemy’s car into flight-mode with just
a.. what is that?
At first glance some sort of blade, but in the close-up, it looks more like a screwdriver?
Either way, he barely even flinches, not a hair moves out of place, his muscles are perfectly
flexed.
You can’t even see his shoulder move as the car is totally thrown off course into
the air.
1.
Slo-mo No-Mo Number one on our list has reached this spot
very deservingly.
There are no more flying cars, strange weapons, or strange horse behavior.
This one is all effects and incredibly unique.
In this fistfight, things start to get heated as the stunts are turned up a notch.
We see some wraparound kicks with a pole, some bloody noses, well, just one.
Finally, though, after the struggle, one of our opponents comes around the slow-mo body,
except he’s not in slow motion.
As the body starts to drop very slowly, the other man strikes him hard with his elbow
to slam him into the ground.
This is some Mortal Kombat type of stuff.