The Man Who Feels No Pain

The Man Who Feels No Pain
India | 2017 | 134’ | DCP | Colour | Hindi | Group: C

Director: Vasan Bala

An introduction of the film will be given by film delegation before the film screening

A boy called Surya suffers from a rare disorder called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain. The condition is life threatening but he escapes his condition with the help of his only friend Supri, his mischievous grandfather Ajoba and a host of martial-arts films on VHS. He is inspired to become a vigilante as a result of one tape in particular in which a one-legged man called Karate Mani fights off 100 combattants. When he is an adult, Surya returns to the neighborhood of his childhood and begins a strange series of adventures involving Supri, Mani and Mani’s evil twin brother Jimmy.

Indian screenwriter and director Vasan Bala made his film debut in 2012 with Peddlers which was selected for Critics Week in Cannes followed by Toronto the same year. He has worked as a screenwriter on Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet and Raman Raghav 2.0 and he is also an award winning commercials director. His second film The Man Who Feels No Pain had its world premiere in the Midnight Madness section at Toronto this year where it won the coveted audience award.