Krrap
Krrish, supposedly Bollywood’s first superhero movie, is exactly as bad as it sounds — a clown musical with soapy melodrama and orangutan jokes. It bruises the mind. On the other hand, it surpasses Superman 3 in black leather kitschy badness.
The villain wears all white when kindly and all black when not. Yeah. It’s that subtle. It’s a cut ‘n paste movie of stock scenes you’ve seen a thousand times: the biker gang circling the girl, spewing random ‘yeah’s’ and ‘get him’s’ which never sync up with their lips; the Operation to Save a Child, the worst shrieky soap trope after Miraculous Operation to Cure Blindness; the random white henchman who always has an Aussie accent; the Evil Lair designed by Tron. The physics never make sense. A paraglider gets tangled up in a tree, then mysteriously falls out of her tightly-bound harness. A volleyball shatters a rock rather than vice versa. Bafflingly, ethnic Chinese people speak in Hinglish accents.
There are lifts galore — from Spiderman, where the cigar-chomping publisher turns into another cliché, the annoying Bollywood vamp; from Underworld and The Matrix, which popularized black leather mandarin jackets; from Superman, the origin myth; from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the alien-attracting musical chord. The supersized product placements are aggressive and obscene. The hero is prettier than the irritatingly wimpy heroine, and a better dancer.
Hrithik Roshan’s double thumb gets loads of screen time. The unnecessary letters in ‘Hrithik,’ his son ‘Hrehaan’ and the inauspiciously-named ‘Krrish’ foreshadow an equally useless sequel. Double, double, toil and trouble.
Naseeruddin Shah slums in the villain role just as Ben Kingsley once did. His smirk conveys that he knows just how bad this flick is. If only he’d told the producers.
on Friday, June 23rd, 2006, 10:35 pm in Film › 
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no fair. i like orangutangs in movies. i think dunston checks in was unfairly kept out of the oscars.
tell us more.
let it be known that no tickets are available in ANY theatre across the city of mumbai (legally i mean; bet the black marketeers are rocking it) till sunday. it’s being said that hrithik roshan will forever after be known as the christopher reeves of india. all hail!
If you really want to ignore my warning, plenty of tickets are available at PVR Juhu.
Bring a book, clip your toenails or balance your checkbook while you’re watching. You’ll be more entertained.
And that’s bad?!
LALALALALALALALALALA, I don’t hear you speaking ill of my Hrithik ;)
that bad? perhaps it’s a good thing that I’m in a bollywood-dry area. I can wait for the video and if it’s really awful I can press EJECT.
fierce logo spoof, though!
is it not given that this movie would have been KRRAAP?
I loved it when Rakesh Roshan said in an interview that he has not, i repeat NOT, copied any hollywood script for this movie. He has’nt even been inspired
unfortunately this movie will make a lot of money and there will be, ofcourse, KRRAAAP 2
tc
btw - i got the trailer for superman on utube - talk about the ultimate plagiarism - paraphrased -”they need guidance… their capacity for good is unlimited. which is why i send you to them, my only son”… - this movie’s going to fly in the bible belt. nothing sells like subliminal faith-pedling . any surprise, the hindi version named the superhero the most fun God in the hindu pantheon - i am sure there are religious undertones in Krish movies as well.
It’s not an undertone, it’s a sledgehammer (like everything else in this flick): me Krishna, you Radha.
Thanks for the warning on the extra digit.
I’ll be sure not to plan out any meals when I sit down to watch my bootleg…
Maybe I’m just the opposite of DD in that I despise Hrithik, but can you suggest any movies he has been in that are not utterly garbage? The only one that comes to mind is K3G, and I attribute that to our savior SRK. ;)
oops… manish - sorry about the typo in my news posting - it should be “a score and one” … og not dumb. og careless when multitasking.
Krapp or Krrish, I won’t be surprised if does great at our “apna” box office. I thought the prequel was complete crap (hated their ET-”inspired” musical crap) but then my own (the Indian audience) seemed to disagree.
brimful– I’ll agree with you that SRK is our savior.
Vij, does Hrithik cry in this movie? Because if he does, that really changes things. Guys in capes can’t cry. If he cries, Brimful and I will go watch a SRK double-feature instead.
Oh yeah. Bawls. Can I hold you to this? ;)
omg…i just read the papers and everyone loves Krrap…..the roshans obviously arranged to have everyone’s brain sucked out before they entered the theatres.
“SRK is our saviour” ??? OK, I’ve never understood why. Is this just his sex appeal going over my head?
Almost all SRK films (crap or otherwise) have done big business overseas.
Ennis, it’s not really a sex-appeal thing, because most female fans will say he’s not “hott” per se. But he has charisma for days, when he dances, and chicks dig that. :) Yes, he has a chipmunk-like giggle, and he tends to get a bit hammy… but the charisma goes a long way.
Personally, I find that his hamminess (is that even a word?) is exactly the key to his charisma.
i concur with brimful. it could also be our man’s personal fashion sense - he’s the only man i know who sports the kind of pants worn by our man krishna here, and gets away with it. it’s an odd style - flat-top pockets, a boxy look with a big seat - the transparent shirts are a little weird, but well - i’m sure it keeps the ladies happy. I heard a sigh from boulder i think.
I didnt’ realize I was being so loud in my adulation of SRK ;)
Yeah, his sense of dress is unusal but mad-ishtylin’. He can pull off the retro-70’s uncle shirt with jeans and make it work. Unlike Hrithik and his shiny mylar vest in K3G. That’s just offensive costuming.
Thus far y’all are describing a younger William Shatner to me.
And … what’s not to love.
but can Shatner do “Chaiyya Chaiyya”? I didn’t think so.
hey - I called it first - apparently this reviewer agrees with me. supe strikes a pose near the end of the movie, with arms outstretched, savior to the world.
the whole thing is offensive on at least one of the following three elements
1. religion is being subverted.
2. the moviemaker believing that this subversion is essential to the plot or to the bottomline
3. the public needing the subversion to allay its fears . Just how insecure are we??!!
Did it not hit anyone else that during at least one indoor scene in Singapore he had an identical hairdo to Monica Lewinsky?
That’s just gross on a guy. ‘Specially when he’s as pretty as Hrithik.
Didn’t any of the ladies out there find the long hair kinda icky at times?
I mean, sure, most Bollywood lead actors are - ahem - very in touch with their female sides, to say the least, but c’mon, this was too much.
I’ve come to know that after watching action scenes of this movie, one can easily find ’saarukh khan chasing jeep in a rickshaw plus MI stunts’ truly refreshing and entertaining. Hail roshans for making this great epic
ok i think people are being seriously unfair to the movie. it is goin unnoticed by many here how much effort and work has gone into the movie and i think its come out pretty well…i know my taste may differ from many people here but it’s how i honestly feel. Seriously if you thought it would be krrap then why did you bother going for it?
OK so it may not be up to this so called invisible hollywood standard according to some people but isn’t it an advancement? and i can understand if people didn’t like koi mil gaya it was a very emotional movie and some people just aren’t into that sort of thing which is fine…but if you didn’t like it why see krrish? aren’t you just fueling the success of it so it does well even in that tiny little way?’
and all this stuff about SRK being the saviour of movies?? i do like him don’t get me wrong but he has to prove himself all over agin in the past little while he hasn’t had a movie release so not much can be said right about now but Hrithik has proved himself to be a versatile actor in this movie
as a movie lover i appreciate this movie and quite like it
and people have to agree at least its better than some of the rubbish coming out
(btw nice banner spoof its a good idea)
Had high hopes.
Didn’t see Koi Mil Gaya.
Every effects-laden movie has an army of people working on it. You don’t get credit for effort, you get credit for results. Here I suspect Roshan Sr. decided the plot instead of hiring a real writer.
Now that’s being unfair to Bollywood. This one was schmaltz for 5-year-olds.
I finally saw the movie. The one funny thing I noticed is that the villain Dr.Arya announces to his shareholders that the company has made $400 million profit.
That sounded so much like Austin Powers asking for “1 million Dollars” ransom :-)
Other than that I liked the movie. It was typical Bollywood movie with Action, Romance etc, yet it wasnt a typical movie. It was much better than the KRRAP made by Karan Johar with excessive melodrama. After all Hrithik is my main man!!! He carried the movie all by himself. He is an insipiration to a weight room guy like me.
I just read in ToI that this movie was the first Hindi movie that was released simultaneously in 5 regional languages in India and the movie recovered its cost even before release, via product placement. Kudos to the Roshans !!! They have shown the Hindi film industry that there is no reason to be Dawood Ibrahim’s little bitch, if you want to make movies. There are other legitimate and better ways.