When director Vasan Bala first appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival, it was in 2012 with the dark and violent Peddlers. Six years later, he returned with his sophomore offering, Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota, which is light and violent. Given the honour of being the first-ever Indian film to be selected as part of TIFF's Midnight Madness slate, the two-and-a-quarter-hour long movie fit neatly into that niche. The university auditorium where it had its world premiere at a minute to midnight on Friday lacked a concession stand, but as corn popped onscreen, the audience was kept well nourished with regard to entertainment calories.