The Man Who Feels No Pain (2018) on Netflix
Surya is born with congenital analgesia, a rare disorder that stops him from feeling pain. His paranoid father and eccentric grandfather raise him, and martial arts films become his obsession.
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Surya is born with congenital analgesia, a rare disorder that leaves him unable to feel physical pain. His mother dies shortly after his birth, and his paranoid father and eccentric grandfather Ajoba raise him. At school he is bullied for his condition, and he befriends Supri, a neighbor. Ajoba supplies VHS tapes of martial arts films, and Surya becomes fixated on footage of a 100-man karate kumite fought by a one-legged fighter, Karate Mani. He learns to treat his own injuries. When he defends Supri from her abusive father, both families are evicted and the children are separated. Years later, now a sheltered young man, Surya is allowed outside, follows a poster of Karate Mani and meets Supri again without recognizing her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Man Who Feels No Pain (2018)
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- Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota played on only 375 screens in India because of a dispute with multiplex cinema companies; producer Ronnie Screwvala complained to the Competition Commission of India about fees imposed on Hindi films, and INOX Leisure retaliated by refusing to screen the film at all.
- Director Vasan Bala said the idea for the film came to him in early 2016, when a friend told him about a dentist whose patient did not ask for anaesthesia.
- Radhika Madan was auditioning for Laila Majnu (2018) when she learned about Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota and chose the latter film instead because of its "uniqueness".
- Radhika Madan performed all her own stunts and watched classic action films for days to familiarise herself with the genre; she was also injured and bruised during the physical training.
- Abhimanyu Dassani went through one-and-a-half months of auditions with other people; Gulshan Devaiah learned karate while Dassani and Radhika Madan learned mixed martial arts, and all of them trained for almost eight months.
