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{{quote| ''"Hey, this was in 'The Matrick'?"''<br />

''"You mean [[The Matrix|Matrix]]?"'' }}

A [[Bollywood]] film set in [[The Largest Democracy|modern day India]]. Starts off with a [[One Man Army|supersoldier]] named Ram foiling an assassination attempt on an [[Indians With Iglas|Indian general]] by an anti-Pakistan terrorist. Ram's father is killed in the attack, but not before revealing that Ram has a [[Long Lost Sibling|long-lost half-brother]] named Lakshman who is still in college. The General then tasks Ram with protecting his daughter, who by coincidence attends the same college as Lakshman.

A [[Bollywood]] film set in [[The Largest Democracy|modern day India]]. Starts off with a [[One-Man Army|supersoldier]] named Ram foiling an assassination attempt on an [[Indians With Iglas|Indian general]] by an anti-Pakistan terrorist. Ram's father is killed in the attack, but not before revealing that Ram has a [[Long Lost Sibling|long-lost half-brother]] named Lakshman who is still in college. The General then tasks Ram with protecting his daughter, who by coincidence attends the same college as Lakshman.

So Ram goes back to college, where he discovers that his brother, known to everyone as [[Embarrassing First Name|Lucky]], is the [[Big Man On Campus]] who regularly leads the rest of the student body in cheerful [[Crowd Song|Crowd Songs]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

The resulting three hour [[~~Cliche~~ Storm]] is half-''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'', half-''[[High School Musical]]'', rolled into a Bollywood song-and-dance epic. Whether it was intentional or not, comes off as a brilliant parody of multiple Western genres. The [[Genius Bonus|sharp-eyed viewer]] will also note that the plot loosely follows the story of the ''Ramayan'' (as is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the character names), which occupies a similar place in Asian cultures as the King Arthur stories do in the West. [[Tv Tropes Will Enhance Your Life|Well worth a hardcore Troper's time.]]

The resulting three hour [[Cliché Storm]] is half-''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'', half-''[[High School Musical]]'', rolled into a Bollywood song-and-dance epic. Whether it was intentional or not, comes off as a brilliant parody of multiple Western genres. The [[Genius Bonus|sharp-eyed viewer]] will also note that the plot loosely follows the story of the ''Ramayan'' (as is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the character names), which occupies a similar place in Asian cultures as the King Arthur stories do in the West. [[Tv Tropes Will Enhance Your Life|Well worth a hardcore Troper's time.]]

Main Hoon Na is Hindi for "I am here."

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* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]- Ram just keeps outdoing himself. First he almost single-handedly rescues General Bakshi from a squad of gunmen, then he chases down the bad guy's car using a borrowed ''bicycle taxi,'' then he {{spoiler|kills Raghavan [[Hoist By His Own Petard|with his own grenade]], which also sets off the bombs in the gymnasium.}} Lucky also gets a mention for his helicopter rescue.

* [[Destination Defenestration]]- taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the opening, as every single window the main characters touch during the fight scene shatters, even one that Ram lightly puts his foot on once

* [[Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting]]- In ''India''!

* [[Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting]]- In ''India''!

* [[Everything Is Better With Explosions]]- Just for good measure during the climax.

* [[Fan Service]]- Lots.

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* [[Sibling Team]]- Lucky and Ram for the second half of the movie.

* [[Slow Motion]], [[Slow Motion Drop]], and [[Slow Motion Fall]]- a major factor in this movie's 178-minute length.

* [[So Bad ~~Its~~ Good|So Bad It's Awesome]].

* [[So Bad It's Good|So Bad It's Awesome]].

* [[Trope Overdosed]]- A shining example of how to cram as many tropes as possible into an enjoyable movie.

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]- Terrorist gunmen shooting up an Indian television studio is less fun to watch in light of the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai. The scene where Raghavan's mooks crowd the school's students into a bomb-rigged gymnasium is also uncomfortably evocative of the 2004 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis Beslan school hostage crisis] in Chechnya, which occurred a few months after Main Hoon Na's release.