I haven’t watched Novocaine yet, but I’m looking forward to it. The action comedy about a man who doesn’t feel pain and looks to save his co-worker from a hostage situation has been described to me as “what if the Crank movies were romantic comedies,” which sounds exactly up my alley. My wait for the movie to come to home viewing was a great excuse to watch a similar movie that’s been on my Netflix queue for years — the 2018 Hindi action comedy The Man Who Feels No Pain, listed on Netflix under the Hindi title Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota.
As the title suggests, the movie has a similar premise to Novocaine: A young man with congenital insensitivity to pain has to fight for what he loves. But while Novocaine focuses more singularly on that conflict (in that case, a hostage situation), The Man Who Feels No Pain
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