International Film Festival & Awards - Macao

Vasan Bala – The Man Who Feels No Pain #IFFAM2018

December 19, 2018

Vasan Bala - The Man Who Feels No Pain #IFFAM2018 fredfilmradio

Podcast | Download

PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Vasan Bala, director of the film The Man Who Feels No Pain.

Director Vasan Bala presented his film, The Man Who Feels No Pain, in competition at the 3rd International Film Festival and Awards Macao. The film is at once a tribute to the martial arts movies that he loves – and he enthusiastically shares a short beginners’ guide to the genre in this interview – but also draws inspiration from his own past and memories. Its protagonist, as the title suggests, is a young man who feels no pain and who grows up on a diet of martial arts videos, eventually learning how to fight. The condition he has is a metaphor, Bala explains, for the views on pain within a patriarchal society. Here, he tells us about that but also about other interesting aspects of the film, such as the music and his actors, who really had to put in quite an admirable physical performance.

The Man Who Feels No Pain: A boy called Surya suffers from a rare disorder called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain. The condition is life-threatening but he escapes his condition with the help of his only friend Supri, his mischievous grandfather Ajoba and a host of martial-arts films on VHS. He is inspired to become a vigilante as a result of one tape in particular in which a one-legged man called Karate Mani fights off 100 combattants. When he is an adult, Surya returns to the neighborhood of his childhood and begins a strange series of adventures involving Supri, Mani and Mani’s evil twin brother Jimmy.

Written by: fredfilmradio

iffam Macao International Film Festival and Awards Matt Micucci The Man Who Feels No Pain Vasan Bala

Guest

Matt Micucci Vasan Bala

Film

The Man Who Feels No Pain

Festival

International Film Festival & Awards - Macao

Rate it

Channel posts

Interview

Karlovy Vary Film Festival

“Dreams”, an interview with director Michel Franco

July 15, 2025

Michel Franco about "Dreams" : 'When the father says "It’s okay to help immigrants, but there are limits," that’s the biggest question in the film: can people [from different contexts] truly see each other as equals?'

Interview

Karlovy Vary Film Festival

“Future Future”, an interview with director Davi Pretto

July 14, 2025

"Future Future" director Davi Pretto: 'The apocalypse is not what Hollywood says it is, a huge bang. That's not the apocalypse. The apocalypse is happening every day.'

Interview

Karlovy Vary Film Festival

“They Come Out of Margo”, an interview with director Alexandros Voulgaris

July 11, 2025

'The screenplay of "They Come Out of Margo"', says director Alexandros Voulgaris, 'started with another composer, then it became personal, and then it also became about female artists in the 70s and 80s.'

Interview

Karlovy Vary Film Festival

“Bidad”, an interview with director Soheil Beiraghi

July 10, 2025

"Bidad" director Soheil Beiraghi: 'A lot is happening in Iran: there is life, their is beauty, and there is a happiness around, and we need to portray that.'

LISTEN TO ALL OUR RADIO CHANNELS

Vasan Bala – The Man Who Feels No Pain #IFFAM2018

Channel posts

“Dreams”, an interview with director Michel Franco

“Future Future”, an interview with director Davi Pretto

“They Come Out of Margo”, an interview with director Alexandros Voulgaris

“Bidad”, an interview with director Soheil Beiraghi

Top popular

“Madly”, an interview with director Paolo Genovese

“They Come Out of Margo”, an interview with director Alexandros Voulgaris

INCinema OUTSIDE arriva a Firenze

“Broken Voices”, an interview with director Ondřej Provazník

“Greek Apricots”, interview with director Jan Krevatin

Recent Posts