and about Krrish...

The droplet of my sweat is sliding the side locks onto the one day old beard, getting lost amidst the stubble, not strong enough to continue its way down to the cliff of the jaw, and dive down. The heat of the Bangalore's afternoon, the blaring 'tari kere' Kannada song over the fm, and a bored driver of my office cab, waiting for the next pick up to arrive.....

What did I do on the weekend???

Other than Krrish.....

Ah! Krrish. The rediff gave it a good review.
Junta had mixed reviews about it. Some hailed it as the incredible movie ever. Some mentioned that 'it definitely was not boring at any point'. Some termed it 'you can sit
thro it'.

The movie is definitely not boring, but a disappointment. Despite Hritik vociferously putting it across in all his interviews, that the movie is not a superhero movie but a foundation for one, the trailers flashed before an excited crowd before screenings of 'Rangde Basanti', six months back, had stamped on my memory of a black attired masked, a 'bat-man' look-alike.
How could one imagine that this movie is more a love story with some great locations, and choreography than the superhero antics???

Story,

Mr Muscleman is brought up in a village, by his granny Rekha. He runs faster than his horse, and climbs faster than your ancestors.
Miss 'Do I look hot' comes to the village on an 'adventure' camp, wearing designers most of the times.
She has one helluva 'adventure' with the mountain of muscles.
She goes back to Singapore.
He follows her.
Oops, I forgot to mention that the gullible granny made the 'to-be-superhero' to promise that he won't display his talents in Singapore (like all those gullible parents of 'onsite'
dudes' who would have made their offspring promise ' no drinking, no cigarettes, no stripclubs' ).
Krishna (err...that is his name, incase not mentioned earlier) is always found in formal wear.
But, an opportunity occurs in the guise of a martial arts chap, performing on the streets for collecting money for his sister's operation, hurting himself during street performance. (Yes, the same pathetic 'sister operation' pretext but with a new highrise background of Singapore). Mr 'martial-arts-trained-for-40-days' jumps at the chance, and twists, turns, weilds the lance with such finesse, that Bruce Lee smiles like god Ishwara of Kannada movies, from heavens above. (No, the Bruce Lee part is my imagination...heh heh).
There are few more occasions where he saves kids from a burning circus, and other good stuff.

Suddenly, he realizes that his father (Rohit, of 'Koi Mil Gaya' fame) is not dead, as he was told by his granny. He is held captive by a crazy villain Naseeruddin Shah.

A predictable set of fights and ups-and-downs-in-love later, Krrish ends.

Thatz it.

What didja expect???

Musing later,
The movie is worth a watch, even for the miniscule portion of the superhero stuff dished out. Hritik Roshan is AWESOME as a superhero. He is the best superhero I have seen. He looks perfect, acts perfect, and performs perfect as a superhero.
The chap has loads of talent, and has perfected them with more tons of practice.
His hard work shows. The ripping muscles (the well defined chest is the latest addition), the flexi moves, and the grace is very impressive. His martial art moves are more credible and graceful than the champs in the Chinese movies.
The superhero scenes match international standards. Almost flawless, they are big on the canvas, and glamorous. They are worth every penny you pay for the ticket (ofcourse, if you haven't bought the tickets in black...heh heh).

But the movie is slows down in some of the scenes. The dialogues are flat, and there is literally no story.
The characters are not credible. Well, actually, the characters are not given any time to establish themselves.
All the screen time is hounded by the predictable, bland love story between the dude and the dudette.



The music is good, and the picturisation of the song sequences are excellent (though I believe that computer graphics has a lot to do with the creation of the excellent locales of India, too).

Overall, there are a lot of things to bitch about, for a critic. But, the movie is good. A landmark achievement by an Indian film maker.

Worth watching once, out of curiosity.

And then...... don't discuss it... unless....... you are stuck in traffic on a hot afternoon, with the droplet of your sweat sliding the side locks onto the one day old beard..... :D