Krrish 3

As an Indian, I am a big admirer of all these projects like Krrish, Ra- one etc. so I watched this movie without waiting for reviews, I kept low expectations and yet its utterly disappointing. I understand that such projects require a big budget, but the movie has so many flaws that this 'budget' excuse does not justify it anymore. At least one area where Bollywood is good at, 'Music', could be original, but no! From the initial credits where they play the spider-man theme music till the end music 'book of Eli' theme, the whole movie has bits & pieces of some Hollywood movie. Another confusing fact about this superhero Krrish is that his powers are not defined. Every Hollywood superhero is known for his well defined power, they have strengths & weaknesses. But nobody knows what Krrish is capable of, in some occasions he can't outrun a slow moving car and at some other times he is faster than light; sometimes he has to put all his power to move a truck and sometimes he would move mountains (a metaphor not literally); the superhero in Krrish(2006) who had powers like captain America, has turned into a superman in Krrish-3, now what's next? total BS. Please, define this superhero's powers properly. And please Mr. Rakesh Roshan, don't make our superhero cry like a toddler all the time. Talking about Kaal, I kinda like the villain in this movie and Vivek Oberoy deserves an applause for his acting and dialogue delivery. Whenever the dialogues were lame, well its not Vivek's fault. Mr Rakesh Roshan had so many powerful mutants in this movie, he could have used each one to give at least one small round of fight, but most of them were just wasted. Once again, zero innovation and zero originality cannot be justified by the low budget excuse. I did not put reviews earlier because I want this movie to make money and I want Mr. Roshan to make Krrish-4. And i'll watch Krrish-4, again without waiting for reviews, but if I see the movie & music is again borrowed by Hollywood, I will immediately put my reviews highlighting all the cons to make sure our people know what they are going to see, once Mr. Roshan work on these areas, the movie will appeal to another big segment of viewers who watch Hollywood movies regularly. Just show some originality and make your movie attract the intellectual viewers.

From the trailer, this movie looked more or less a copy of Hollywood superhero movies. Yet the expectation was high, coming after Koi Mil Gaya and Krrish. (No one knows where Krrish 2 went!)

But firstly, credit where credit is due. The action and the stunts and the special effects are top class. Specially if you compare it with the other Bollywood movies in the similar category like the rubbish Ra.One, it is a million times better. It is the same quality as X-men and Superman movies. Yet, the problem is that it just seems a copy of such movies. The focus on the mutants aspect was short but almost the same as X-men and the last fight scenes of Krrish and Kaal seem to be just a recreation of 'Man of Steel'. The only difference was that this being a Bollywood, Hindi movie, this had more aspects of emotional drama, songs and typical dialogs.

There wasn't enough element of surprise. You knew what was coming and with a weak story, even the connect with the audience wasn't that great. In the first half, I felt like I was watching Shaktimaan in one scene. The music and songs aren't good at all and totally unnecessary. Even Hrithik's dance wasn't anything to rave about. Krrish was shown to be doing just a bit too many things at a time. The acting is OK, Hrithik and Kangana have done well but the story just seemed very weak.

Having said all that, kids would love this movie and people who don't watch Hollywood movies can watch this for the action and special effects. I can also see this movie earning through merchandise and other things. Great or not, this movie is definitely going to earn a lot but it could have definitely been better in some aspects.

First off, let's get the good stuff of out the way, the special effects are surprisingly very good though not great. The film is well paced, it flows well. The performances are solid: Hrithik Roshan does a superb job playing double role, but I think he's performances as the father is way better than as Krrish, 'cause when he's playing Krrish there's no room to showcase emotions, because of the mask and all. He can just tears up and shakes, which gets repetitive after sometime. Kangana Ranaut Is also good, she rocks and there's a development with her character that I thought she handled it well. Vivek Oberio seems to be having fun with his character. Priyanka Chopra is good but her character is shallow, although she's particularly amazing in the part where she's Kaya in disguise. The action is fun to watch. Okay that's about all the positives I can think of about this movie. Now to the defects, straight up I thought this movie was very cringy, there's way too much melodrama for a superhero flick. The fight sequences are too long and quite immature. The choreography of the fight is over-the-top. The music is garbage and overly dramatic. The background is score is too loud and melodramatic; When Krrish saves someone or is doing something heroic, the score in the background plays that cringy "a a aa a aaaa' song, I understand it's kinda like a theme song but it's way overplayed. The story is quite plain even if that's forgivable, the characters are poorly drawn: Kaal, the villain is pretty uninteresting, he just come across as a clown, he wants to take over the world but his motive is never clear. Krrish as the titular character is also quite boring, he lacks any sort of personality.

This trilogy started with Koi Mil Gaya; a simple story about an alien-meet-human, to Krrish; a bit more mature with superhero elements with the usual Bollywood sentiments then there's Krrish; overblown, over-ambitious and melodramatic. But in whole, the trilogy as far entertainment is concerned, it offers tremendously.

Director Mr. Rakesh Roshan work is fine. He has written the story also. Story is good, even lots of things are very logical but screenplay gives jerk to them. Dialogues are good but not go completely with the mood and genre of film. Graphics save and support the film well. Film moves between lots of ups and downs, creativity wise and pace wise too, this is due to lots of screenplay writers are there, so the movie is not seamless. Even, a typical villain have hearts like typical Indian films, she can feel love and applause. Villain and Hero, are full of super powers but still they prefer hand to hand combat rather than playing mind game. Hero can sense the wrong things happening from far but he misses to figure it out in home, how and why? Emotional quotient is less than it's first part Koi Mil Gaya. Pre climax is slow and lengthy. Performance wise, hats off to Hrithik Roshan. He makes you believe in double role that he really posses two personality. Rest cast are OK. Music is fine but lyrics drags it.

Laugh all you want, but it makes one of the most brilliant plots for a superhero movie.

1. Life giving device 2. Mutants (Maanvars) 3. Krrish saving Mumbai City from an epidemic. 4. Half brother (Kaal), a villain 10 times more powerful than Krrish himself. 5. Villain taking over Mumbai. 6. A great gladiator match between good and evil.

And the list goes on, it's a great example of brilliant writing but poor execution. Too much to show in a single movie, but I still love it because of not trying to copy Hollywood and maintaining it's very own original Indian feel. But many still troll it because we're just used to mock any effort Bollywood makes to make to make a great movie as "It's not as good enough as Hollywood", guess our minds are yet to have independence from white supremacy.