Word: gunga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hrundi V. Bakshi is an Indian actor who was imported from New Delhi to play a heroic bugler in a new Bengal Lancer-Gunga Din-style movie being shot in California. This is his big chance, but he blows it-first with his bugle, when he wrecks a scene by continuing to blat out battle calls instead of dying of his wounds, then by blowing up the fort that is about to be stormed in the film's big fight scene. The enraged director fires him, and arranges to have the name Hrundi V. Bakshi inscribed on Hollywood...
...salt wastes of the Thar, Pakistani irregulars were doing their laundry one morning when an Indian 3-in. mortar shell slammed into their midst. Killed: a brown goat. The Paks - camel-riding Indus Rangers and bearded Hur rifle men - ducked behind mud walls and blazed back in the best Gunga Din fashion. A strafing run by Indian Vampire jets failed to dislodge the Pakistanis -indeed, they reported, did not even disturb the vultures circling overhead...
ZULU. A band of British redcoats faces 4,000 proud Zulu warriors in a bloody battle film in the grand carry-on-lads tradition of Four Feathers and Gunga...
ZULU. A band of British redcoats faces 4,000 proud Zulu warriors in a bloody battle film in the grand carry-on-lads tradition of Four Feathers and Gunga...
Improving on history, Director Cy Endfield has made a battle film in the grand carry-on-lads tradition of Font-Feathers and Gunga Din. His characters are swiftly etched stereotypes, a drawback easily overlooked once the action begins to surge against the eye-filling sweep of Natal's brooding, beautifully photographed Drakensberg Mountains. Soon an insidious clacking sound echoes through the surrounding hills. It is the primitive, awful din of short-stabbing spears hammered against rawhide shields. Now the threat becomes palpable. Across the horizon stretches a line of warriors clad in animal skins and necklaces of baboon teeth...