Car chase sequences or action scenes involving cars in movies are intended at capturing the imagination of a viewer. However, scripting and filming such sequences at times goes overboard in an attempt to leave the viewer awestruck. As a result, laws of physics concerning cars go for a toss as some scenes depict unrealistic scenes or outcomes. Even Hollywood isn’t insulated from such goofups, which can be seen in the Fast & Furious series, which comprises mostly of senseless car sequences.
Bollywood, however, at times has pushed the game a level forward, defying not just science but all logics known to even a layman. We’ve compiled some of the most funny (illogical or disastrous) car chase/crash sequences in Bollywood. In case you remember anymore, please feel free to add in the comments below and we’ll be happy to use them in a future story.
Singham – First off, in order to chase a car in a parking lot which is the first generation Mahindra Scorpio, Ajay Devgn manages to overtake him from a parallel lane, which to start with seems fine. However, the same SUV is put into an 180-degree slide, wherein Ajay Devgn gets out of the car which turns by itself coming to a halt. The scene does not end there and our hero shoots the front left tyre sending the car into an airborne summersault (What?). The car keeps on spinning mid-air and Devgn grabs the driver when the spinning car is about to cross him. The Scorpio then lands on its roof and our hero gets the villain (Yay! But what about laws of physics?)
Sivaji – The Boss: Our hero, who happens to be a don, with the heroine are watching a drive-in movie together in a Land Cruiser, however, that is the end of sanity in the movie. Goons attack Rajnikanth (in the movie of course) who also happen to be in a horde of other cars. The magic here is the budget! The moment the goon sin their cars start assaulting the Land Cruiser, it turns into a Scorpio (What!!!). That’s not all! It does all the things impossible for a car to do such as do a 360-degree spin while moving in a specific direction, or getting out of a sandwich situation with the flick of the steering wheel or doing a stoppie effortlessly (I have seen enough). The scene ends with Rajnikanth fleeing the scene after smashing all the cars through the drive-in movie’s screen (What about the mechanicals at the front?).
By this time the said ‘Land Cruiser/ Scorpio’ had none of its windows or the front windshield intact yet miraculously both the protagonists survive from the crash unscathed!! Seems like all the jokes about Rajnikanth are real and the scattered parts of the screen ended up running away from him.
Khiladi 420 – If car chases are too mundane, why not add a pair of roller blades, a hook and a Maruti Suzuki 1000. While the car is being driven by the villain, the hero of the movie, Akshay Kumar chases the car on the roller blades and then hooks onto the car using the anchor (or that’s how it looked) and is then chased by the antagonist’s henchmen. While being hooked to the car, Akshay Kumar does a complete split mid-air and kicks the drivers out of the front windshield! (Horizontal kick resulting in vertical motion!!), following which for no reason both cars go up in flames. These cars then hit larger vehicles with more henchmen which are ahead of the villain’s (Mukesh Rishi) Maruti 1000, thereby creating a wall of exploding cars and flames up ahead. The scene continues with Akshay hanging on to dear life as he approaches this wall of fire but for many reasons unknown to mankind, not only does he cross the fire unharmed but all exploding cars fall only inches away from him without hurting him.
In the next scene, the hero manages to leap through an incline onto the roof and eventually on the hood of the car. Then comes a blow to the windshield, which breaks the glass, ummm, just like normal glass would and that’s where the problem lies. Maruti 1000 since 1997 came with a laminated front windshield but in this movie made in 2000, the windshield breaks like a bottle of glass!! What happened to the lamination? Eventually, as expected, the hero wins by defeating the villain.
Taarzan: The Wonder Car
Taarzan The Wonder Car was launched in 2004, and the film was inspired by the Hollywood movie Christine. The film casts Ajay Devgn, who plays a car designer in the movie with Farida Jalal and Vatsal Seth. The Wonder Car was a modified version of 1991 Toyota MR 2, redesigned by DC and was showcased at the Auto Expo as well. In an epic scene of the movie, the Wonder Car was hit by the Jeep and went over the Cliff. After shattering into pieces, the car, powered by a supernatural power, starts repairing itself as parts fly and join with each other and dents and scratches disappear as if they were never there!
After this, Wonder Car went to save Vatsal Seth in deep sea and ran on water like a Jet Ski. Wish this Taarzan Wonder Car might be a reality so that we will not have to depend on motorboats anymore. As far as kicking logic and science is concerned, this movie potentially has an all-time top position in Bollywood.
All the Best
All the Best has a car race scene in which the actors of the movie are racing to win money. In the movie, Ajay Devgn is again playing a car designer and to win the race he modifies the car engine, the main change being the inclusion of nitrous oxide. The car used in the comedy scene was the 1990 Toyota Celica. The scene conveys that the car’s engine has been upgraded to deliver more power by Ajay Devgn. The funniest scene is when one hears Fardeen khan saying “3km baaki hai button daba”, “2km baaki hai button daba” and eventually when the nitrous oxide is engaged, the car races ahead in a straight line but doesn’t hit any other car somehow! When the thrust from nitrous gets too much, the front of the car breaks away from the cabin and continues to move on its own for a while before coming to rest due to friction. Eventually, the hero fails to finish the race and loses.
