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Well, superhero Toofan's appearance used to be preceded by – wait for it – a storm. Before you could see Toofan, a literal toofan came and disoriented you. After that, he just came and kicked your ass.
In the cut-price world of 1980-90s cinema, stunts happened with a prayer on the lips and foreign technicians were still one Liberalization away. In this Wild Wild West, in walked Ajay Devgn… no… in rode Ajay Devgan (still with all his vowels intact) and made his father's – stunt director Veeru Devgan's – naam roshan.
Sunny Deol – the ultimate he-man of Bollywood – went to Pakistan to pick up his wife and took the country apart while doing so. In an extended climax, he first fought back an angry mob with nothing but a handpump (which has reached mythical levels in the Bollywood Masala Universe now).
Armaan Kohli was an ichhadhari naag in a previous birth but became a shapeshifting Terminator, killing off half the film industry after a misunderstanding over who killed his fiancée.
Tamil film industry – home of the original Ghajini – decrees that the revenge must at least be 322-times gorier than the original crime. To meet this stringent condition, Aamir installed six-pack abs, got a hairstyle like the Google Maps terrain-view, tattooed Post-it notes on his body and then proceeded to beat up villains with deadpan abandon.
A swaying crowd, a screaming villain, a simpering heroine were enough to make him take off his shirt in his early days but not anymore. In recent times, there have been Olympic opening ceremonies with less fanfare than Salman Khan's un-shirting routine.
The 'heist movie' genre is hugely popular the world over. A dysfunctional team planning a meticulous operation to steal untold riches from a shady millionaire's vaults got a masala tadka from Farah Khan.
The multiple masala universes of Indian cinema were kept hidden till the Baahubali franchise went to China and made so much money that movie fans across the world caught on and are still picking up their jaws from the floor.
If you thought Katrina Kaif can only play a dainty dancer upping the glam quotient while Salman Khan goes villain-hunting, the Tiger franchise was made to prove you wrong.
Tiger Shroff has made his career in absolute defiance of film reviews, the left brain and the laws of gravity. With each successive film of the Baaghi franchise, he has managed to break the record for the maximum duration of time spent airborne per film and the number of bones broken in the least time.