Movie Review: Krrish: The Indian Superhero!

Move over Shaktimaan. The father son duo of Rakesh Roshan and Hrithik Roshan are all set to pull this one out on the innocent Indian audience back there in India. Taking an audience for granted isn’t anything new in the world of Bollywood. If running around the trees is passe, crappy plots with insane acting performances and intolerable songs in the movies is taking it’s toll on our brain cells.

There isn’t a single Bollywood movie I’ve been to in the past couple of months and left the halls without a headache. I remember sleeping within fifteen minutes of Koi Mil Gaya last year. And they’re back with India’s first ever superhero and they call it Krrish! I hope they won’t plan the third part and make it a trilogy.

Talking about our first ever Indian superhero, he’s tall, handsome, has long hair and seems to be good looking overall. He inherited super powers from the previous Hrithik Roshan’s role in Koi…Mil Gaya. Now our new superhero, Krrish can jump high like a Kangaroo and move between buildings like a crazy wild monkey. Like all superheroes Krrish also wears a mask to hide his identity. Things like these fail to settle down in my brain like why would a superhero want to hide his identity when he can go out in the open and enjoy the popularity, win girls’ hearts, enjoy free food and drinks and what not?! I guess this would be just like why does Superman wear his undies over his pants when he’s supposed to be so intelligent?!

Coming back to our desi superhero, Krrish won’t wear his undies over his pants! Thanks to intelligent scriptwriters. So this village guy chases his girl upto Singapore and then finds an evil villain and fights him while saving the entire city. A total rip off from other superhero movies is truly expected. Looking at the picture on the right takes memories back to a scene in Spiderman when the superhero is kissed by the girl in a similar fashion. Just that we’re Indians we don’t get to the lips so easily (Emran Hashmi is an exception ofcourse). Add to that some usual Bollywood masala and you have the perfect recipe for a box-office hit in your pockets!

So will this work? Well, it might! Summer holidays are on and the kids have nothing better to do. If Shaktiman worked on the desi television scene, Krrish will definitely prove to be a much tastier alternative to the kid’s summer hunger for movies since Harry Potter isn’t available this summer and The Da Vince Code is now A rated!

My verdict, don’t waste time and money on this one. Wait for the DVD, borrow it.