maildrop-67155 The alternate title of this film should beManmohan Desai has gone mad (he was the director and producer(Manmohan Desai Pagal Ho Gaya in Hindi) At around 88 minutes elapsed time, there is s scene, where the hero traveling on his horse-driven carriage, see a sculpture of a soldier and a horse and go in to monologue dissuading his horse from mating the stone one.If you find this type of items as funny, then go ahead and watch this filmDr. FrankensteinJuly 2, 2016NOTE: The man could manage to direct only 1 more film,after making this junk and that too because itwas half way complete.

silvan-desouza Manmohan Desai made some entertaining though illogical films like AAA, PARVARISH and NASEEB but he made some craps like COOLIE and MARD and then GJSThis movie is one of the worst movies ever made by him the dial became famous Mard ko dard nahin hota but the film is so bad you cringeThe British are made carricatures and the film looks so weird The scene in the British hotel is damn stupid The film has many stupidities like Amrita assaulting Amitabh and then the entire scene plus towards the climax the film becomes even worse There are more gems like the horse statue getting life, The masks of Amitabh haha and moreDirection by Manmohan Desai is bad Music is okayAmitabh does his part with style, nothing different from COOLIE, LAAWARIS type roles Amrita Singh is okay Satyen Kapuu is okay Prem Chopra is as usual, Nirupa Roy is again her usual self Dara Singh is also as usual

elshikh4 Director (Manmohan Desai) with star (Amitabh Bachchan) made history of wonders : (Amar Akbar Anthony - 1977), (Naseeb - 1981), (Coolie - 1983), and (Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi - 1988). Here it's not (Desai)'s most fantastic world inasmuch as the most fantasia.If you wanna be silly : actually (Mard) gives you an ideal chance. It's one atmosphere of absurd hyperbole where you'll watch primitive Roman wrestling to death, excellent intelligence's masks, colony with mine and slaves, evil guys with tankers, ..etc. It's (Spartacus) meets (Mission Impassable) meets (Indiana Jones) meets (Rambo) ! Nobody dares to define what year all of this was happening : "Lady Helena" (whom the movie didn't tell us who's she !) is wearing a heavy 19th century clothes, then Amrita Singh's car is from the 1950s, and her clothes from the mid-1980s ??? The most laughable one came from Amrita's bodyguard with his black leather punk garb, and for sure the evil guy who was wearing Freddy Mercury's costume yet with Dracula's cape !! Not to mention : a horse who has an elephant's memory, explicitly shoddy back-projections, and an electric shocker as a torture device along with a bikini both in the 19th century !?? If you wanna be merciful : the character of the popular hero along with his melodramatic story and conflict was great according to this kind of let's say : genre. The story lines come from so many folk stories or old legends but through the Desai's distinct style of making highly satisfying piquant MOVIE, and with a patriotic sense too WAW. (Amrita Singh) was, and maybe still is, the sexiest Indian girl ever appeared on the screen, she was so blazing and kind of reprised her first role 3 years earlier in (Betaab - 1983) which was Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. (Amitabh Bachchan) was larger than life particularly at that time when he was "The Star" and deserving it, look at him fells the screen while the movie's title appears, gosh, he is the man (Mard stands for man). Everything was quite ardent, so you've got to feel exhilarating because of this non-stoppable adventure. In fact, we say the precept of "leave your brain at the door, and enjoy" about so many American movies, aren't we ? So why not saying it about this Indian interpretation of FUN ! If you wanna be nostalgic : I watched it while I was 11 or 12-year-old, it was shown at the Egyptian theaters for a record time, and what a crush I've had. I ranked it at my early list of the greatest action movies ever. However, when I re-watched it 20 years later I discovered that it's special case of entertainment, which doesn't ever deny that it's a pure entertainment indeed. It's like a Comic-book movie from India. Look at the last shoot; it can summarize perfectly the whole condition of the movie as light fantasy with comedy/action /romance/melodrama/Desai ! It's one huge extravaganza of nearly all the quintessential cinematic factors of enjoyment as pure piece of escapism yet a' la Indian.If you wanna be rational : You'd think cheese, delirium, or act of decadence. But simply (Mard) is representing Bollywood picturization of ecstasy as the ultimate commercial Indian movie of the 1980s at its highest peck of being dainty, with all the deficiencies of the previous too.In one word : enjoy it, it meant to do this exceedingly. And believe me, it will make you forget your worries ..Along with your name too !

WelshLarki I first watched this movie as a child, and although i did not understand it, (As i am not Indian but Bengali, and this movie has actually been rated as a 15) I still loved it then as i do now.I understand every word and am moved by many dialogues and scenes.Amitabh Bachans acting, is again wonderful and spot on. As well as everyone else's. Im not a big fan of Amrita Singh, but i did enjoy her performances in this movie.I have read other member comments and most have said that a lot of the movie has bloopers. Do these people actually watch the movie or do they sit and note down everything that doesn't fit in? When I'm watching the movie, i don't even pay attention to everything that is wrong, I'm too busy being entertained by the superb acting! Even the animals are entertaining....The way they are loyal to there master....and in return they get respect. This film is a simple lesson to us all...treat everyone and everything with respect.Trust me, Watch this movie....i doubt if you could tear yourself away...i couldn't and still cant...this is one of my top five movies....and will always be!