Friday, September 19, 2008

Krrish

Krrish is a 2006 Bollywood science fiction superhero film directed by Rakesh Roshan. Released on June 23, 2006, the film is a sequel to Koi... Mil Gaya. It is considered the first major superhero movie to be produced in Bollywood. The movie stars Rekha, Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra and Naseeruddin Shah. Preity Zinta makes a special appearance.

Plot

Rohit Mehra (Hrithik Roshan) and Nisha (Preity Zinta) are married and they have a child, Krishna (Hrithik Roshan). Rohit apparently dies in a lab accident in Singapore; Nisha dies during childbirth, shortly after hearing the news of her husband's death. The child, Krishna, grows up under the care of his grandmother Sonia (Rekha). As Krishna is growing up, Sonia discovers that he has inherited the superpowers that were transferred to his father by the alien Jadoo in the previous installment, Koi... Mil Gaya.

As the head of a large information company based in Singapore, Dr. Arya had hired Rohit to build an advanced computer that could see the future, telling Rohit that it will be used to avoid disasters and improve mankind. The brilliant Rohit takes just two years to invent the prescient computer. When he discovers with its help that Dr. Arya will betray him, using the knowledge granted him by the computer to empower himself instead, Rohit destroys the computer..

We discover in the beginning of the film that as a young child, Krishna is extremely intelligent and gifted; for example, he is able to draw beautiful portraits of his parents, grandmother, and animals, perform Herculean feats of strength, run at tremendous speed, communicate with non-human animals, and think with great clarity. He performs an IQ test, which helps the school principal realize his abilities, but his grandmother fears that the greedy may exploit him as they did his father, and so the two move far away into a remote village near some mountains. Krishna spends his childhood there, playing with other children and racing with animals. However, he soon grows frustrated as he sees that all those his age are moving away to the city to greater and grander things and he becomes upset at his grandmother for making him stay in the village.


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