New Netflix Bollywood Brawler Mirrors God of War 2018 Boss Fights, Channels Kratos and Mortal Kombat Fatalities
Mahavatar Narsimha wears its influences like armor, charging in with familiar beats and high-octane swagger.
Seven years after Kratos stomped the 2018 Game Awards and grabbed Game of the Year, God of War is still finding weird new ways to make headlines. Sure, it also popped up on Rolling Stone's 2025 best-games-ever list, but the thing everyone is passing around today is way messier and, honestly, way more fun: a splashy Bollywood Netflix movie that seems to be lifting straight from God of War's playbook.
The clip everyone is passing around
The movie is called 'Mahavatar Narsimha', and a montage making the rounds lines up its big battle beats against God of War set-pieces. Some of the animations look, uh, extremely familiar — like one-to-one, frame-for-frame familiar. The edit is obviously cut to spotlight the similarities, but you do not need a detective board and yarn to see the matches.
'Copy and pasted 🤭'
That was the tone of one viral post on November 17, 2025 — and, yeah, you can see why.
Quick heads-up before you go hunting for the video
A lot of the shares live in corners of the internet that are pushing some overtly racist garbage. The GamesRadar+ team — which includes a South Asian staffer — helped track down a version that was posted without that baggage, but in general I would avoid the comments sections on this one. Not worth it.
Watch the full scene, not just the spliced clip
I pulled up the full battle on Netflix, and even on a single watch it is clearly drawing from a bunch of places, not just Kratos. Think of it as a big-budget blender of influences:
- Mortal Kombat-style fatalities, dialed up for maximum crunch
- Classic Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee choreography DNA
- Marvel Cinematic Universe-sized, everyone-piles-in mayhem
The whole thing is a spectacle. Wildly over-the-top, but in a good way. It rips.
Why this is raising eyebrows
Borrowing and remixing is nothing new in Bollywood — sometimes right down to frame-matching Hollywood shots. What makes this one stand out is how directly it seems to nod at video games like God of War and Mortal Kombat. There are probably more references tucked in there that I missed.
Either way, God of War keeps racking up odd honors alongside the official ones. From that 2018 Game of the Year trophy to Rolling Stone's 2025 all-timer list, it just will not leave the conversation. And for what it's worth, Ragnarok sits pretty high on my personal PS5 list too.