New Delhi: Filmmaker Mihir Desai's crime fighting superhero Aakra-Man may well put the Avengers out of business. It's about time India had a superhero, a post left vacant by 'Malegaon Ka Superman' actor Shafique Shaikh who died of throat cancer. Desai's five minute-short film has been getting positive feedback from the film community.
Desai owns one of India's first DIY film production company to promote independent filmmakers and create high quality products with available resources. Aakra-Man, featuring actor Rahul Desai, is a Mumbai crime-fighting genius slightly on the plump side, with an ungainly mask with a torch tucked into his headgear.
On days when crime is scarce in night time Mumbai, Aakra-Man knocks off cigarettes from the hands of surprised and annoyed citizens, knocks on brothel doors and runs away or soliloquizes about the city's despondent crime situation.
Shot as a mockumentary, Mihir and Rahul Desai have produced, directed, edited and written Aakra-Man, a common man, "with a glorified sense of theatrics".
"Equipped with unusual devices and using unorthodox modes of transport Aakra-Man is hell-bent on repairing his fractured city of Mumbai -- whether crime exists or not," says the film's page on YouTube.
The hilarious antics of Aakra-Man, a play on the Hindi word for attack, have even captured the fancy of Bollywood stars such as Riteish Deshmukh who praised the short film on Twitter.
(Credits from the film's YouTube channel)
Producer, Director, DP, Editor: Mihir Desai
Producer, Actor, Writer: Rahul Desai
Original Score: Alex Marianyi
Additional Dialogues: Varun Grover
Marathi Translations: Yash Sawant
Assistant Camera, Sound Recordist: Aniruddha Patankar
Sketches: Sumit Purohit
Watch the film here:
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