Shilpa Shetty
Black belt karateka and Bollywood star
Karate (1983)
Starring: Mithun Chakraborty and Yogita Bali
IMDB reviews say: “An abomination to Indian movies and martial arts…pure garbage…watch this movie only if you are considering killing yourself.”
Karate
Krrish (2006)
Starring: Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra
IMDB reviews say: “An accomplished blend of Indian popular storytelling, western technology and Asian action…supported by an awesome and adrenaline-pumping background score…a historic milestone in Indian film-making.”
Krrish
Who is making the best martial arts movies today? Hollywood, or Bollywood?
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6 responses so far ↓
1 Albert | UrbanMonk.Net // Jan 31, 2008
Muahahah! I actually liked the first one, that was freaking hilarious! Especially when he started dancing on the other guys corpse. I couldn’t tell if the second one was taking itself seriously or not, though. Heh!
2 luckykabutar // Feb 1, 2008
Hrithik is the most Martial Artisty kinda guy. Very flexible. Hope we see more of KungFu from this guy.
3 Chris // Feb 1, 2008
More Karate…
Knife disarms, Bollywood style
Funky, spooky catfight
Song and dance at the Karate disco
4 Kungfuguy // Feb 6, 2008
ha both looked like they wer’nt serious martial artisits can’t fly but the first one was funny as hell
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