Review on KRRISH - 26th June 06

KRRISH
In the season of the sequel comes Krrish. The Indian Super Hero.....It is to the credit of Rakesh Roshan who is no John Woo, nor Steven Spielberg but manages to weave a watchable fare, replete with SFX and stylish action sequence rarely seen in hindi cinema. The story begins in a picturesque hill station with madam Re' trying to over protect her gifted grandson from the privy world .
Those were the days of hindi cinema, when the hero as a kid is shown running and the camera focuses on his running feets and viola he has grown up into a HERO. The audience is treated here to a similar scene with pulsating music , when krishna the hero is shown racing with the horse and winning (Thankfully Maneka G, did not take any offence to this one!!).
Enter, the heroine along with an adventure camp group. The introduction scene between the hero and heroine is interestingly shown. Next is the predictable song and dance situations in the glorious tradition of Hindi Cinema to profess and confess love .
Pre Interval some amount of melodrama between the grandmother refusing to age and the grandson refusing to visit the local saloon for a decent hair cut, about his visit to Singapore . Finally she relents ,knowing that Manali would not have much opportunity for a super hero to utilize his super powers.
Post interval, and no sign of the super hero yet....
Some more inane scenes unfold in the scenic Singapore, delaying the arrival of the super hero again. Next our hero takes the heroine to visit a circus ; Hero Honda presents The Bombay Circus, another momentuous opportunity for a song and dance . The circus catches fire and it is left to the hero to become a super hero much against his grandmom's desire, to save some kids trapped inside the blazing tent.
Krrish does it in style wearing his father's overcoat overturned, and by wearing a partial mask to mask his identity completely !! From here on the audience could have been treated to more of the super hero saviour moments, but papa director and the writers decide that our Indian Super Hero has personal agenda more on his mind . May be saving the world etcetra could have been outsourced to Spidey, Superman and other super heroes .
Naseer plays the arch nemesis, who wants to dethrone the jumani's and the bejan daruwala's by building a super computer which can reveal the future. I do not want to reveal much of the movie for the cine goers.
Now Post some stylishly shot action sequences courtesy Tony C and the hardworking Hrithik, our hero returns back home . Background score is highly inspired from Spidey movies and stock music from Vangelis. Camerawork is good and pleasing . The in your face ad endorsement was too much, thankfully only KRRISH was spared from endorsing any product or else the director would have even shown KRRISH flying with some billboards .
Kids will love the movie and so would the masses, if only some more IQ was put in the screenplay and the writing dept, KRRISH would have really hit the bulls eye.
Watch it only for HRITHIK and the hardwork gone in by SFX and Tony C Or wait for the Superman to return on 30th June.