Krrish

<p>Krishna Mehra, a five-year-old orphaned son of the deceased couple, scientist Dr. Rohit Mehra and Nisha Mehra, lives in the small town of with his grandmother Sonia. Krishna undergoes an IQ test by his school principal who suspects that Krishna has inherited Rohit’s superhuman abilities gifted to him by Jadoo due to Krishna answering all the questions flawlessly. Shocked at learning this, Sonia takes the child to a remote mountain village in to conceal about his identity after losing Rohit and Nisha and self tutors him for his basic education. As he grows up, his physical abilities develops more leading to his isolation and constant scoldings by Sonia for him growing up with nature. Two decades later, Krishna, now a village youngster, meets vacationing girls Priya and Honey, who are camping with their group near his home via his tourist guide friend Bahadur. After Krishna saves Priya from a hang glider accident, initially he and Bahadur play a prank with her group about him being a ghost, Kalicharan, but end it when the group plan to return early, having falling to the prank. Eventually Krishna and Priya become friends and grow close just before the girls depart for their home in . Before leaving, the girls had first-hand experience of some of the special abilities that he exhibits, like talking to animals and his strength. After returning, they are fired by their boss for taking a non-permitted extended vacation. In an attempt to keep their jobs, Honey suggests inviting Krishna to Singapore and making a television program about him. Priya, initially reluctant to use his naive nature and his feelings for her eventually tricks him to arrive in Singapore. However, Sonia protests this leading Krishna who is unaware of his family’s past questioning the reason behind her strictness. Thus she states that the people there will only exploit his abilities and innocence and reveals about and it’s aftermaths of Rohit becoming renowned scientist, marrying Nisha and getting invitation by Dr. Siddhant Arya to help create a futuristic computer in order for prevention against calamities. On the night of Krishna’s birth, Rohit contacted to inform that his superpowers were being misused and he is returning back but failed and reportedly died in a laboratory accident, but his corpse was never recovered. Nisha dies shortly after as she was unable to bear the shock of Rohit’s death. After learning this, Krishna feels guilty for never understanding Sonia’s fears and promises her that he will never reveal his powers and she permits him to go to Singapore, aware of his feelings towards Priya. Krishna arrives in Singapore and during the production of the television program, Krishna keeps his word, causing Priya and Honey to get fired again with the program revealing nothing exceptional about him. Later, he befriends a stunt performer, Kristian Li, who is attempting to raise funds to pay for his handicapped young sister’s leg surgery. Kristian invites Krishna and Priya to the Great Bombay Circus, but during an act, a firework explodes and ignites the tent, which is swiftly evacuated. Several children remain trapped in the blaze and Krishna is faced with the dilemma of saving the children without revealing his abilities and dons a broken black clown’s mask lying on the floor and wears his jacket on inside-out, creating the persona of . After a few days, Kristian witnesses Krrish fighting some goons and removing his mask, where he gets shocked to learn that his friend Krishna is Krrish. As Krrish is being offered a reward for his deeds, Krishna asks Kristian to assume his identity so that he can pay for his sister’s surgery. Meanwhile, Priya and Honey learn that Krishna is Krrish after seeing the footage from the camera that was in Priya’s hand. They decide to release the footage on TV to enable Krishna to become a world-famous celebrity. During their discussions, Krishna arrives and overhears the girls talking about how Priya had been lying to him and will create a big sensation by revealing his identity to the world. Just before Priya confesses to Honey that in this drama she has genuinely fallen in love with Krishna, he leaves, feeling cheated and heartbroken. After being confronted by Krishna at his apartment about what she said, Priya cross-questions him about Sonia’s strict nature towards him labelling it as “selfishness” and gets to know about the Mehra family’s tragic past. Realising her mistake she sets out to stop her boss from revealing Krrish’s identity. In the process, Priya meets Vikram Sinha, the senior security officer of Dr. Arya, who has been searching for Krishna and Sonia for the past 20 years. With the help of Sinha, Priya recovers the footage from her boss. Sinha finally meets Krishna with her help and reveals that Rohit is still alive. Sinha explains that he and Rohit were close friends and after completing the machine, they tested it out of curiosity as Nisha’s due date was near by then and saw Krishna being born and Sonia unable to accept Rohit’s death and were further shocked to see Dr. Arya holding Rohit at gunpoint. Rohit realising that after killing him Dr. Arya will use the computer for his own selfish needs destroys the computer but gets shot in the back by Dr. Arya and had since been taken as a prisoner in a comatose state by Dr. Arya, who spread the news of his presumed death and kept him alive via machines as Rohit’s heartbeat and retina scans are biometrics to that computer. Meanwhile, Dr. Arya who has re-built the computer in all these years using Rohit’s notes tests the computer and gets shocked to see Krrish killing him. In an attempt to change his future, Dr. Arya quickly visits Kristian’s house and shoots Kristian dead, believing him to be Krrish. After learning about Kristian’s death, Krishna suits up and uses his superhuman speed to pursue Dr. Arya to his remote island, where he had imprisoned Rohit. When Dr. Arya looks into the future again, he sees that the visual has not changed and is shocked to see Krrish still alive and on his island. When Krrish enters the compound, there is a vicious fight with Dr. Arya’s thugs, whom Krrish eventually defeats, but Dr. Arya shoots Sinha dead and holds Priya and Rohit at gunpoint. Krrish saves Priya and Rohit and injures Dr. Arya fatally. With his last breath, Dr. Arya learns about Krrish’s identity. After revealing to Rohit that Krishna is his son, Krishna and Priya take Rohit with them back to India, reuniting him with Sonia. Rohit learns that Nisha had died after his presumed death, where he mourns her along with Sonia, Krishna and Priya. Rohit re-uses the supercomputer created by his late father Dr. Sanjay Mehra to summon Jadoo, whose spaceship can be seen from a distance and thanks him for his family once again. In November 2004, the Roshans confirmed they would produce a sequel to (2003). They announced that actors and would return for the sequel, but that would be replaced by . Chopra also confirmed the same, adding, “The story will start where ended.” Before Chopra, was cast as the female lead, and she and Hrithik starred in a photoshoot. However, the results of the photoshoot left Rakesh Roshan dissatisfied, and thus Rao was removed from the project. hoped that the film would be remembered as the first to prove that the Indian film industry is equal to Hollywood. He decided to push the story forward by focusing on the son of the previous films’s protagonist, who would inherit his father’s special abilities. The story combined elements of Indian mythology (the main character’s name Krishna alludes to the Hindu Lord ), Chinese martial arts and Hollywood films to set itself up as a film of global significance. Rakesh Roshan wanted to be a trendsetter in Indian cinema, with visual effects on par with . He hired Hollywood special effects experts Marc Kolbe and Craig Mumma, who had both previously worked on such films as , and , to help create the visual effects for the film. Roshan also hired Hong Kong action director after admiring his work in . Before production began, Hrithik Roshan went to China to train with Ching for the cable work that would be needed to make his character “fly”. A storyboard of the film was prepared and sent to Ching to help him develop the action sequences. Additional production credits include: – choreographer, and Sham Kaushal – art directors, Baylon Fonesca and Nakul Kamte – sound, Nahush Pise – makeup artist, Sham Kaushal – assistant action director. was the first Indian film to be shot in under the Singapore Tourism Board’s Film-in-Singapore subsidy scheme, and over 60% of the film was shot there. Shooting was accomplished on location over a span of 2 months, from September to November 2005. Locations featured included the , the , and the . Another major filming location was , where heavy rains caused production delays. The Singapore police were on location to block roads and protect the filming equipment, such as when the film’s action scenes required two 250-foot high industrial cranes. Author Audrey Yue noted that the film shoot benefited Singapore by leading to domestic and Indian . Filming also took place in and in . During filming of a flying stunt, one of the wires that was tied to Hrithik Roshan broke, causing him to fall 50 feet, though he landed safely on a shop’s canopy. Hrithik described the incident as a “freak accident”, stating, “I was skydiving to my death till I fell on a six-feet-long canopy of a shop that was out because of the slight drizzle. The canopy had iron rods. But I missed those rods too. What do I say? I guess the right word to describe the situation would be (magic).” Roshan also suffered other injuries during the film’s production. He tore the hamstring in his right leg during a circus scene, singed his hair while running through fire in another action scene, and broke his thumb and toe during strenuous training for the wirework. Indian firm assigned a team of more than 100 VFX specialists to work with Marc Kolbe and Craig Mumma to create the visual effects for the film. Included were sophisticated and , including whole body scans, 3D replicas of vehicles, fire sequences, complicated wire removals and work. They prepared over 1,200 VFX shots, accounting for approximately 90 minutes of screen time. Describing the effects, Rakesh Roshan stated, “If you liked the visual effects in , you will find them far better in . I do not think audiences have seen anything like this in Hindi films.” The film’s soundtrack, composed by , was released on 28 April 2006 by . Lyricists included , , and Vijay Akela. provided the background score. It became the seventh best-selling Bollywood soundtrack of the year. As a part of the marketing, was offered for sale prior to the film’s release to maximize profits. These included , , and other . A game was made in 2006 by after the release of . The final budget of came to 40 crore, which at that time was considered a big-budget film by Hindi film standards. The film was released on 23 June 2006 with 1,000 prints. was simultaneously released along with dubbed versions in and languages. It was the first Indian film to receive payments in advance for product placement, music, and international distribution rights. The film’s was released in on 18 August 2006, by . On 21 August 2006, it was released for all regions by Filmkraft. Adlabs also released a Blu-ray version. It was also notably screened under the “Informative Screening (Feature)” film category at the 2014 in North Korea. had a good opening week, and tickets were reportedly selling for many times the original cost at some locations. Total gross collections were an Indian record of 41.6 crore ( 29.7 crore nett) for its opening week. became the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2006, earning over 69 crore nett in India alone, and was classified as a “Blockbuster” by . It also grossed 31.68 crore in the overseas market, where it was declared a “hit”. The final worldwide total gross was 126 crore. One week after was released, another superhero film, was released in India. Rakesh Roshan stated, “I was a little skeptical that Superman might hurt me, but fortunately it didn’t.” In fact, fared better at the box office in India than did. On the website , 88% of 8 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7/10. received positive reviews from critics in India. of believed that the film surpassed expectations, but felt that there were issues with pacing in first hour. Overall, he deemed to be “a terrifically exciting and compelling experience”, and awarded the film 4.5 of 5 stars. Nikhat Kazmi noted in that while the superhero and action sequences were appealing, there were not enough of them. He was also not excited by the romantic parts, comparing them to a sightseeing tour, first in India and then in Singapore. He said that overall, this film lacks the fun of its predecessor. On the other hand, Raja Sen said that was infinitely better than , though ultimately it was all about Hrithik Roshan. Sen and Sukanya Verma, writing for , both gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, and both said that it was a good film for children. Sen summarised, “So, is it a good superhero movie? No, but it’s well-intentioned. It’s a full-on kiddie movie, and while a lot of us might be scornful of , it’s heartening to see fantasy officially entering mainstream Bollywood.” Verma agreed with other critics that it took too long for the action to get started, and said that a lot of attention was spent showing off Roshan’s muscles. He summarised, ” neither has the sleek aura nor the deep-rooted ideology of superheroes. What it does have is a super-spirited performance from Hrithik Roshan, which is likely to appeal to children. And that’s worth a three-star cheer.” Saibal Chatterjee wrote in the that is a hackneyed, formulaic masala film, with special effects added on top, and hoped that this would not be the future of Bollywood. Rajeev Masand of condemned the screenplay and thought that the only thing that made the film watchable was the acting of Hrithik Roshan. He gave the film only 2 out of 5 stars, saying ” is only an average film that could have been so much better if the makers had concentrated as hard on its story as they did on its action and stunts.” Overseas reviews were positive. Richard James Havis of stated, “This Bollywood epic crunches together romance, comedy, extraterrestrials, martial arts, dancing and action to tell an entertaining story about a reluctant Indian superhero” but said it may be “far too crazed for foreign viewers”. David Chute of deemed it a “hearty pulp cinema that really sticks to your ribs”. Likewise, Laura Kern of said it was a blend of carefree romance, show-stopping action and sci-fi. Ronnie Scheib of said that it was an “enjoyable, daffily improbable escapist romp”. He praised the action sequences as ingeniously choreographed, but very family-friendly. Though Jaspreet Pandohar of was critical of the script for being “low on originality”, he praised Hrithik Roshan’s performance and the action scenes. Dr. P.V. Vaidyanathan, in a review for , said that the film’s excellent special effects were as good as the best from Hollywood, praised Hrithik’s acting, but called the music mundane. was one of India’s possible nominations for the , but the country ultimately chose as its pick. Despite this, won numerous awards, including 3 — , and —and was nominated for , , , and at the . At the , won , , and . Rakesh Roshan won the Creative Person of the Year title at the same ceremony. Additionally, the film was nominated in the following categories at the ceremony: Best Director, Best Music and Best Story. won other acting awards that year, including the , , and . The film’s special effects won the . The film also took Best Picture honours at the . In a showing of the film’s popularity with children, swept the major film categories at the Amazing Kids Awards, which are voted on by children across India. Winners were: Hrithik Roshan (Most Amazing Actor — Male), Priyanka Chopra (Most Amazing Actor — Female), (Most Amazing Film), Special Effects in (Most Amazing Moment in a film). After the success of , Rakesh Roshan announced that he would be making a sequel, tentatively titled . He confirmed that Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra would reprise their roles, and that the antagonists would be played by and .</p>