Mario recreation on India's Got Talent

Here's a superior group of young Indian gamers recreating Super Mario onstage for an installment of the reality TV show "India's Got Talent."

India's got talent- Mario game (Thanks, Kvaid!)

[#1 posted by Anonymous, July 12, 2009 3:50 PM]

Superb!

[#2 posted by Anonymous, July 12, 2009 3:59 PM]

lolwut

[#3 posted by orangebag, July 12, 2009 4:11 PM]

I'm only familiar with Mario 64 and onwards.
Does that vid follow the plot of a particular game?

[#4 posted by Fang Xianfu, July 12, 2009 4:19 PM]

Not as far as I'm aware - no Mario games include any Rob Dougan, either (which, frankly, is an appalling crime, but that's by the by).

What it is is pretty inventive and it takes some interesting liberties with its source material, which is always nice. There's more visually impressive stuff out there, but you can't really fault their execution or flair.

But "matrix ping pong" is still my favourite.

[#5 posted by SeppTB, July 12, 2009 4:20 PM]

Up until the boss fight it is very much the original NES version. From there it just gets weird =)

Still great overall!

[#6 posted by Anonymous, July 12, 2009 4:36 PM]

The judge is Kirron Kher, a terrific actress. She was fantastic in Devdas.

[#7 posted by lumpi, July 12, 2009 5:18 PM]

OMG, it's the ILLUMINATI!

[#8 posted by jwb, July 12, 2009 5:34 PM]

Boring and tedious inside joke confused for talent, once again.

[#9 posted by skeletoncityrepeater, July 12, 2009 6:07 PM]

JWB, I fail to see how a stagecraft recreation of what is arguably the most popular game of all time could be considered an 'inside joke'. Also, it may be silly, but to pull off something like that using people takes an awful lot of skill and imagination. Tedious? Maybe you were thinking of 'Trite', as Mario does get appropriated an awful lot. Several good dictionaries are freely available online.

[#10 posted by Angstrom, July 12, 2009 6:07 PM]

This video needs more ident overlays.

[#11 posted by Antinous / Moderator, July 12, 2009 6:29 PM]

This video needs more ident overlays.

Lately YouTube videos have so many click-heres that you can't see the video under them. It's video niqab.

[#12 posted by Cory Doctorow, July 12, 2009 6:31 PM]

@9 skeletoncityrepeater: You are a fine, intelligent and perspicacious person. I stand in awe.

[#13 posted by NoahApples, July 12, 2009 6:47 PM]

I always hated that part when Bowzer shoots you with the ublockable rocket laser.

[#14 posted by axl456, July 12, 2009 6:49 PM]

meh that was boring.. this one is better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksuQHH6Q68s

[#15 posted by Felix Mitchell, July 12, 2009 7:34 PM]

Some of the judges look like they have no idea what is going on at all.

[#16 posted by Rickyneck, July 12, 2009 8:00 PM]

What is a great need for creativity and the freedom of some interesting, and its source material, which is always very happy. There's more impressive visual effects the existence of things, but you can not perform or failure of talent.

[#17 posted by grimc, July 12, 2009 9:40 PM]

@felix mitchell

The look on the judges' faces is exactly the same as my mother's expression when I tried to explain blogs to her.

Also, I would be willing to wager any number of quatloos that at least one of the judges' main responses was, "I really liked how colorful it was."

[#18 posted by nuorder, July 12, 2009 9:44 PM]

They left out the most interesting moment in this video. The leader of this group was taken to a local police station and beaten violently, because they couldn't believe that someone from the slums was able to pull off such an imaginative and creative stunt.

[#19 posted by Anonymous, July 12, 2009 10:08 PM]

#9 posted by skeletoncityrepeater

They got on TV (albeit India's got talent) ripping off the people who already did this for college/high school talenht shows. They didn't do a very interesting rendition. they did not innovate or improve upon previous performances. lather, rinse, repeat. the race was already over, the emperor is still nude, live action SMB has long jumped the shark.

still...
# 18 for the win

[#20 posted by Daemon, July 13, 2009 12:02 AM]

Damn you green mario!

[#21 posted by skramble, July 13, 2009 12:11 AM]

I give it a thumbs up.

[#22 posted by Anonymous, July 13, 2009 1:31 AM]

[#23 posted by zo, July 13, 2009 1:46 AM]

meh. 'A' for effort but not really that great on a whole.

[#24 posted by Anonymous, July 13, 2009 4:29 AM]

looks like they copied the japanese version...

[#25 posted by Vinayak, July 13, 2009 7:58 AM]

Obviously inspired by Japanese but with a Bollywood touch Luigi dancing, princess going Maaariooo.

[#26 posted by Frank W, July 13, 2009 10:20 AM]

Up until the boss fight it is very much the original NES version. From there it just gets weird =)

It's Super Mario. Where does the weirdness begin?

[#27 posted by Anonymous, July 13, 2009 12:03 PM]

i think more than the japanese, these guys are inspired by the game Super Mario itself!

[#28 posted by Anonymous, July 14, 2009 12:21 PM]

folks give them some credit for some clean harmless creative and brief fun!

[#29 posted by Anonymous, July 25, 2009 10:50 AM]

To the surprise of many. Iam sure the Mario group has not been selected in the next round. Its not because they had a healthy competition but because only INDIA GOT TALENT but the Judges of Indias Got Talent sure have no talent to judge!!
I am sorry for the amazing grp

[#30 posted by Anonymous, July 28, 2009 8:08 PM]

Can'e belive they are not through next round and others who didn't deserve are in semis.. well post #29 is correct, Judges have no talent to judge..

[#31 posted by djkartik_tranced, August 18, 2009 7:36 PM]

Hi, this is a request to boingboing team, please upload this new act in the videos section. The same group 'ILLUMINATI' performed TOM AND JERRY act and won the special competition.

Heres the video of their latest act TOM AND JERRY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOoT8dkE4EE