Friday, 26 February 2021

Meet the Sheela trilogy of oddballs

There was a trilogy of quickly made Indian part-mockbusters, which are all quite repetitious if surprisingly accurate gender bender adaptations of Tarzan of the Apes as in the book itself. Despite being somewhat pale, and highly superficial part time imitations in comparison to their Hollywood inspiration, Sony's Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, they're actually far closer to the story that started both an infamous franchise and swarms of clones like Sheena than they are to the latter's film adaptation by what's now Sony Pictures. 

Even though the first one is a hilarious film in its own right, it was surprisingly well researched, if otherwise flawed, for its pre-Internet usage time, thus it spawned a similar Tamil Kollywood adaptation which in turn begat a lighter and softer but more distant Bollywood remake. It also helps that the otherwise notoriously similar theme songs for all three films are hearty gems. 





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