Krrish - A movie review

Just came back after watching Krrish (First Day First Show) !!!

One Liner - Krrish 2 should come to satiate the half-filled expectations...

Krrish is a very very good movie...a clean movie in Indian standards...can even be called a cross-over movie...in the true sense...the huge bucks that have been invested haven't gone waste...:-)..yes...the technical brilliance of the movie is a cornerstone...though the visual effects were cartoonish at a couple of places!!

The Rakesh Roshan family has clicked the third time in a row...I should say!!! Krrish is a clean sequel to Koi Mil Gaya....

The biggest drawback of the movie...could be the fact that....KRRISH was touted to be a superman-ish character.....a fantasy one...but the movie doesn't do the needed justice to establish his credentials...as staunch as a hollywood movie would do....Agreed there are many scenes were he saves lifes and does hara-kiri...but the plot is more sentimental than fantasy material....thats one place where people will get disappointed...not for what it offers...but what people wanted it to offer.....but on account of pure merit of what the movie offers....it is bound to succeed with Indian audiences. Atleast the movie still seems Indian..which is its strong point I would say!!!

Onto the plot...
Krishna Mehra is the prodigy child of Rohit Mehra (from Koi Mil Gaya), who seems to have inherited supernatural powers from his father....albeit looking normal (unlike his father)...lives in isolation mainly due to the precaution taken by his grandmother Rekha (also from KMG). Dashes onto save Priyanka Chopra(Priya) on her Indian holiday....and befriends her and also promptly falls for her charm....which is returned from Priyanka Chopra as well...and the plot moves onto Singapore, where Priya resides...not before Rekha dusts the past - of what happened after the movie Koi Mil Gaya and before Krrish - before us and Krishna....and he vows not to use his powers lest his identity be revealed.....Come Singapore and his supreme powers are wanted at various places...and he becomes KRRISH, the masked saviour...(which has to be the way out in such movies)....some interesting scenes in this build-up of the character... and in comes the badman- akin to Hollywood movies...Naseerudin Shah...and his wicked plans to be the saviour of the world....which are leaked out by his security officer...which lead to some interesting scenes and to the climax, when Krrish flexes his muscles...and all ends well...

So how does the movie fare??? Actually very well done ...screenplay ...very natural at places... music gels well with the movie...direction...as much as is required...could have been better was the reaction at places...character sketches are ample and well developed and everything is natural for this fantasy film...which is very surprsing...doesn't look like a contorted story line trying to drive in some crazy facts...with unbelievable sick screenplay.....so in sum...a very good film for the family audience...

On to the characters....
Hritik Roshan as the protagonist of the movie...gets FULL MARKS for his emoting...action sequences..dance...all in all one of the most worthy hero material currently in Indian cinema...would love to see such movies of hritik like the hollywood flicks....the naiveness and the controlled emotions he shows in India and singapore...are really well captured by the director...the flying stunts he does gel well with physique...which is a great plus...for the movie...Dance...ahhh...hritik is godly at this...it comes so naturally to him...it looks like Prabhu Deva in hritik's physique...amazing movements..which makes the group dancers pale in comparison..which is a rarity for heros..:-)

Priyanka Chopra does her role perfectly as required...but infact has some acting to do...which she manages well....but she looks gorgoeus on screen..a major plus for the movie...:-)

Naseerudin Shah looks classy and perfectly fits the witty villian role...much like the baddies of Hollywood...I really enjoyed his performance...every bit of his nonchalant acting...Great!!!

Rekha - she ceases to amaze...and does what is required of her....

other characters dont drag and are short and crisp....

No major logical flaws in such a fantasy movie...is a creditable task in itself!!! The movie seems to be stuck between Hollywood and Bollywood...and it is evident that there has been some confusion in the mind of the director..to go which way....coz the movie has the liberty to go the hollywood way..but risking away from bollywood ways maybe suicidal for the success of the movie..which is bound to happen for any experimental cinema...and Krrish passes the experimental phase...and is bound to succeed according to me...if you remove the superman-expectations out of the movie...You have SUPERMAN that RETURNS next week (30th June) to the theatres!!!!

I would preferably expect KRRISH 2, to see the exploits of Krishna Mehra in saving the world(remember Neo does things effortlessly once he comes THE ONE in part 2...something like that..!!)...which would definetely be welcomed by Indian audiences....Are the ROSHANS hearing????

VERDICT : 4 out of 5 (coz KRRISH 2 is awaited)