Adventures of Tarzan

One of my childhood hero Hemant birje is Tarzan and my favourite animals in the animal kingdom lions, tigers and elephants and full of adventure. Except for one song the whole movie is good for families. This movie is entertaining. Dilip Tahl played the good antagonist and Om shivpuri played good supporting role of father of heroine. The tribesmen looked less menacing and more of homeless beggars but the leader RS malik aka Gorilla played a convincing role as a huge menacing look giant. Unfortunately there is no chimpanzee sidekick as the film is set in the jungles of India in Madhumalai National Park. Tarzan looks good and it was the debut film of Hemant birje.

Apart from being a typical bollywood movie of the 80s(with disco music) this one dares more than others. Intead of thinking about the dumb muscled Tarzan u gonna be quite impressed with the saucy girl Kimi, who is pretty bold for an Indian movie. See through tops of luscious Kimi are worth the average movie. A landmark in boldness in an Indian movie, this one has good songs though. Tarzan is again unintentionally funny but entertaining nevertheless. An overall happy movie, no disturbing violence, only romance in the jungle.

This right mess of a film only conjures up Mowgli on acid, not Tarzan. It seems to be greatly influenced by the next worst Tarzan film which starred Bo Derek. Other unauthorized versions such as those made in Spain with Steve Hawkes or Richard Yestaran come off much better than this one. Mr. Birje, though looking pretty good, has little to do but act as a prop for Ms. Kimi's posing and silly inappropriate production numbers until the last half hour of the film. The pacing drags tediously with the few action sequences shot in slo-mo making them devoid of interest to match the rest of the tedium until the grand finale. I don't know which of the main characters dropped the most acid, but they all seem bizarre, especially Kimi as "Rubi" (don't take your love to town) who spends most of her time screeching like Olive Oyl or singing goofy ditties to Tarzan even including "Do-Re-Mi" from the Sound of Music. Even the jungle is weird since its denizens include both wild Indian tigers and African lions. The snake that bites "Rubi" is a cobra, so the lion would seem a bit de trop. The (welcome) finale is almost worth sitting through the first 3/4 of the film which would be greatly improved by aggressive cutting. And yes, Ms. Kimi certainly does win the wet shirt contest, hands down. But if the producers wanted to "ape" a Tarzan film they should have paid more attention to the Barker and Scott films for models.

Adventures of Tarzan review :

Planned as a quickie by B Subhash, Tarzan introduced Kimi Katkar and Hemant Birje. The film became famous for Kimi's skin show and her bold scenes with Hemant and was declared a box office hit.

Being an A rated film, the film was strictly out of bound for me as far as theatrical viewing was concerned. So, I hired a video cassette and stealthily saw it when my parents were away. Haha!

Bappi Lahiri's collaboration with B Subhash was always a hit and Tarzan's music also topped the charts that year.

The film was considered a B grade effort by critics who dismissed Hemant as wooden actor. While Kimi Katkar made a decent career even acting opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Hum (1991), Hemant Birje couldnt capitalise on this films success and got relegated to secondary roles and Ramsay films.

A sequel was planned by B Subhash somewhere in early 2000s but never made.

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.

Yup, this one is as bad as it sounds. A remake of Tarzan in a Hindi film. Hemant Birje is the muscle-bound stud with nary an acting muscle in his body. He is matched in the non-acting department by the sexy Kimi Katkar. Admittedly, there are some nice scenes of these two rolling around and getting naughty in the jungle. However, the bulk of the film is atrocious with next to nil production values, jungle natives who seem to have stepped right out of the 1930s and a screenplay clearly written by a four year old. There is a little campy fun to be had, but its just too long to suffer through. Avoid.

Overall 2/10