Adventures of Tarzan
| Title: | Adventures of Tarzan |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Directors: | Babbar Subhash |
| Actors: | Hemant Birje | Raja Duggal | Kimi Katkar | Narendra Nath | Om Shivpuri | Sudhir | Sunita | Dalip Tahil |
| Rating: | 5.1 | 14 votes |
| Languages: | Hindi |
| Color: | Color |
| Country: | India |
| Plot: | |
| 1) Ruby Shetty lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad, who would to travel to the deep jungles of India to find a fabled tribe in the Shakabhoomi region, where others have gone – but never returned. Ruby also decides to follow her dad, and meets up with him near the jungle’s edge, where she is introduced to a man named D.K., who her dad like her to get married to. The following few days Ruby has a number of misadventures and is rescued by an ape-like man who is called Tarzan, and both fall in love with each other. Tarzan cannot speak any language but is intrigued by Ruby, much to the chagrin of D.K., whose task is to capture Tarzan and take him to work for Krishnakant Verma, who owns Apollo Circus. Before Tarzan and Ruby’s romance could take wing, Tarzan is captured, chained and taken to the circus – where he may spend the rest of his days performing various acts, leaving D.K. free to get married to Ruby.
2) Ruby Shetty a beautiful and captive young woman move in to live with her dad whom she hate allot since he is responsible for her mother’s death. Her dad works with a man called DK who has the capability of hunting down wild animals. One day a job is given to DK of capturing in the jungle far away an ape-man or Tarzan as it is known. However they manage to make the impossible possible by getting into the dangerous jungle and began to camp by the help of lighting a fire to scare away wild animals. However after a couple of days Ruby is found missing. She manage to fall in allot of misc hap and is saved by Tarzan. However Ruby found Tarzan as a friendly thing and not a harmful thing. And also find he cannot talk and decides to teach him the art of learning and later falls in love with him, but before all love happen scenes could happen. Tarzan is capture by DK and mortgage to Krishnahant Verma who owns Apollo circus but by the attempts of many wild animals who appear in the city Tarzan was rescue from the circus and was also able to marry ruby his future love-life. 3) DK is assigned the task of capturing an ape-man named Tarzan and hand him over to the owner of Apollo Circus, Krishnakant Verma. He travels in the jungle with wealthy Mr. Shetty who has a beautiful daughter, Ruby. While in the jungle Ruby is kidnapped by the master of Shakabhoomi tribe and is to be made there queen but before this could happen, she is rescued by Tarzan, hereafter Tarzan and Ruby spend beautiful moments together and this has blossomed to love, while all this is happening Shetty and his entire troop is killed by the Shakabhoomi tribe, the only man that survives is DK and he holds Tarzan responsible for this crime and take an oath that he will have to somehow locate Ruby and shoot this beast. |
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| Synopsis: | |
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Rubi Shetty (Kimi Katkar) stays with her dad Shetty (Om Shivpuri) who is a wealthy businessman and loves hunting and exploring the jungles. One day Ruby accompanies her father deep in the jungle to explore the world of jungle. During her trip her father introduces him to a man named D K (Dalip Tahil). Shetty is fond of DK and desires his daughter Ruby to marry him. DK has an instant liking for the beautiful Ruby. DK is involved in trapping wild animals and sending them to the circus. |
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| Comments: | |
| 1) This right mess of a film only conjures up Mowgli on acid, not Tarzan.It seems to be greatly influenced by the next worst Tarzan film whichstarred Bo Derek. Other unauthorized versions such as those made inSpain with Steve Hawkes or Richard Yestaran come off much better thanthis one. Mr. Birje, though looking pretty good, has little to do butact as a prop for Ms. Kimi's posing and silly inappropriate productionnumbers until the last half hour of the film. The pacing dragstediously with the few action sequences shot in slo-mo making themdevoid of interest to match the rest of the tedium until the grandfinale. I don't know which of the main characters dropped the mostacid, but they all seem bizarre, especially Kimi as "Rubi" (don't takeyour love to town) who spends most of her time screeching like OliveOyl or singing goofy ditties to Tarzan even including "Do-Re-Mi" fromthe Sound of Music. Even the jungle is weird since its denizens includeboth wild Indian tigers and African lions. The snake that bites "Rubi"is a cobra, so the lion would seem a bit de trop. The (welcome) finaleis almost worth sitting through the first 3/4 of the film which wouldbe greatly improved by aggressive cutting. And yes, Ms. Kimi certainlydoes win the wet shirt contest, hands down. But if the producers wantedto "ape" a Tarzan film they should have paid more attention to theBarker and Scott films for models.
2) Apart from being a typical bollywood movie of the 80s(with disco music)this one dares more than others. Intead of thinking about the dumbmuscled Tarzan u gonna be quite impressed with the saucy girl Kimi, whois pretty bold for an Indian movie. See through tops of luscious Kimiare worth the average movie. A landmark in boldness in an Indian movie,this one has good songs though. Tarzan is again unintentionally funnybut entertaining nevertheless. An overall happy movie, no disturbingviolence, only romance in the jungle. 3) Apart from the last half an hour of the film,where Tarzan was draggedto the circus, overall the film was Entertaining. Song videos were shotat good locations but the songs itself seemed to have been prepared atthe last minute, not catchy at all. They were worst. As required Tarzancharacter played dumb throughout. Some realistic grunts and animalsounds could have been added if properly directed. In all Tarzan filmschimps played an important role but there was no interaction with themhere. Only elephants seemed to be leading. Lions and tigers appearingonly in songs and last half hour and again no interaction with Tarzan.Kimi suited her role but the first half hour of Kimi's appearance wasdefinitely unsuitable for family audience and more aiming towards somelow class audience. Actor Hermant fitted into his 'Tarzan' characterperfectly more than any other actor could have both looks and physiquewise. His script and acting could have been more productive. 4) Yup, this one is as bad as it sounds. A remake of Tarzan in a Hindifilm. Hemant Birje is the muscle-bound stud with nary an acting musclein his body. He is matched in the non-acting department by the sexyKimi Katkar. Admittedly, there are some nice scenes of these tworolling around and getting naughty in the jungle. However, the bulk ofthe film is atrocious with next to nil production values, junglenatives who seem to have stepped right out of the 1930s and ascreenplay clearly written by a four year old. There is a little campyfun to be had, but its just too long to suffer through. Avoid. Overall 2/10 |
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