Movies, especially some Indian ones, do require us to suspend disbelief and, to be honest in some cases all our understanding of medicine and the human body. Things like brain transplants, polio being cured by encouragement and patriotism bringing people back to life have left us amazed at what these movie-makers were thinking. But this video from a Telegu movie has left us in awe of the heroic stunts a human heart can perform.
A little back story:
This is a movie clip from a Telegu movie where the hero (man in the yellow shirt — just in case you were confused) is taking a heart that has to be transplanted into his wife. But, terror strikes when the villain of the movie stops the loving husband from taking the heart (that he is holding in his hand, no need to worry about infection) to his wife by striking him with a medieval-looking axe.
He is about to die, and flings the heart into the operation theater (that is about 12 storeys high), where his wife is lying cut open on an operation table, ready to receive the heart.
What is so wrong about with that?
While the story might have told you how wrong this entire premise is, here are a few things we find absolutely hilarious.
Super Heart: The first thing you notice about this clip is the sheer resilience of this particular heart! It gets kicked by the villain, falls on the ground, and gets flung, only to crash through a glass window — all without a single scratch on its surface. There is no fear of infection or damaging the organ; it is Super Heart after all! Maybe they should have given it a cape and tights while they were at it.
Such a big heart: Now that we have established that the heart is a super organ, here’s something else you should mull over — its size. The heart in the clip is so big that the hero (the guy in the yellow shirt — in case you forgot) has to hold it with both hands and is as big as his torso. Apart from that, when it lands inside the woman’s body cavity which is the same size as her entire upper body. Clearly in this movie, if you have a heart you don’t need any other organs.
The hero has aim: If you have ever tried to throw a ball over a fence, you know how hard it is. But not for this hero who lobs a huge heart, almost as big as his upper body, from the ground-floor of a building into a window about twelve to thirteen floors up, makes it crash through a glass window pane and makes it land perfectly in his wife/girlfriends open body cavity. Clearly this guy can aim!
The heat-seeking heart: When the heart, lands perfectly in the woman’s body and starts to glow, a little creepily might we add, it gives the illusion of this heat-seeking missile which knows exactly who and where the next heart transplant patient awaits it. Forget waiting for a donor or organ compatibility, all you need is for your relative to go out get a heart and fling it through a hospital window. It will seek you out.
No need for vascular surgery: But what really takes the cake is the fact that as soon as the organ lands inside the woman, it starts to glow and the woman breathes in deeply (the filmy style of portraying that it has given her life), just like a ready-made heart transplant. There’s no need for the surgeon to connect the heart to the rest of the body through blood vessels; this heart comes in a ready-to-use package.
The unfazed doctors: If all surgeons were this cool when a heart flew in through the window of their operation theater, we wouldn’t need any super-speciality doctors at all. Looking at this movie the whole fight to increase PG seats in medicine is an absolute waste of time. What’s even more side splitting is the fact that the doctor is on the phone while his patient is lying open on the table. When it does, he is unfazed, smiles and goes towards the patient to close her up. Now that’s confidence I say, who needs a degree anyway?
The unnaturally large needle: So, once the hero and his heat-seeking heart have done all the work for the doctor, the surgeon walks up to the patient and begins to stitch her shut. The needle looks like it was previously used to either sew a gunny bag, knit some winter wear or was used to make holes in some large chunks of meat. But what really is the icing on this uproarious cake is the size of the thread — pardon me, rope — he decides to use. In perfect synchrony with the size of the needle, the rope he uses is thick enough to use as a leash for a cow or very big dog. But then again a super heart needs some super strength rope to hold it down.
This operation theater needs no sterility: Most operation theaters function under strict guidelines of sterility; everything is clean as a whistle, and doctors wear masks so that they do not infect the patient. But not in this OT. Say goodbye to infections and death, this doctor sews up the woman and then breaks the rope with his teeth. Surgical scissors?…Naah that’s for losers!
Don’t try this at home: To top it off, this video comes with a disclaimer — ‘These stunts are performed by professionals, do not try this at home.’ Now this begs the question, who exactly is the professional here? The hero (a professional heart-thrower?), the villain or the doctor (oh God! we sure hope not). Moreover, unless you are a serial killer and had some leftover hearts lying around to fling through windows it is quite hard to imagine this stunt being tried at home.
While, World Heart Day is a serious matter, a little laughter never hurt anyone. After all laughing is a great stress buster that helps keep your heart healthy.
PS – The clip is from the Telugu movie Hrudaya Kaleyam, which is a spoof of such over-the-top Indian movies.
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