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Does just enuf to satisfy the action-junkie in 'U'
Nov 11, 2013 12:57 PM 3870 Views
(Updated Nov 11, 2013 02:02 PM)

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Disclaimer: - This is not just a review. These are confessions of a Cinemaholic.


For the last few years at the movies, the quality of the star studded commercial films in Bollywood has been trimmed down to spaghetti standard and have fortunately or unfortunately fallen prey to the conventional trappings of what they call “The marketing gimmick” - since the ratings suggest very few of those “hyped up ones” actually lived up to our initial expectations notwithstanding its staggering box-office successes(Chennai Express being the last major let down) .


The moment I stepped into the theater to watch Hrithik Roshan – Rakesh Roshan team’s third installment of the Koi Mil Gaya series, titled “Krrish 3”; I had “realistic parameters” as to what to expect and what not to expect from the Roshan’s this time around, since most critics from MS and across the cyber space presented the pros( the effects) and the cons(the script as) of this film so wonderfully well to its readers.(NB: Some went on to give too much of a credit to Hrithik Roshan, which, considering the fact that he's playing Krrish for the second time around is not the deal we came to expect from the big fellor)


But still, when I discovered( shockingly) that the only real set piece in the first half of “Krrish 3” - came so early on in the film, (as early as the 10th minute) in a typical superhero scene where we see, “Krrish” the superhero, for the first time in the movie, rescuing a plain filled with a crew of ordinary passengers by dangling on its wheels –- I kind of began to suspect “Boy is this the same Marketing Gimmick all over again..! ”.


With a hint of disappointment creeping in, I bent back, Reclined my seat, put pen to paper and actually marked this film down on the on-going list of the biggest letdowns of the year, going by the conventional wisdom - “If they begin flawed, then they will also END FLAWED”.


I think the biggest challenge lying in the face of filmmakers like Rakesh Roshan, while doing a project like “Krrish” - is to find out an individual space and maintain a freshness within the narrative and also to match the standard in terms of technical nuances - especially from among a cluster of similar genre films thrown to us by masters in the game such as Marvels Universe and Paramount Comics from Hollywood.


Before the second half began, and the film resumed, the challenge I put forth to the Roshan’s was exactly the same - “Will Krrish 3 be able to justify its insane hype surrounding it & stand up alongside such big, giant studio offerings, which, BTW set a huge benchmark for fantasy films in general, not to mention superhero, all across the globe?”


Thankfully, I didn’t have to wait for too long to find out the answer. Although not the best special effect of the lot, the second half begins with this nicely edited set-piece where Krrish encounters a bunch of mutated creatures(poor man’s “X-MEN”) in his yard in a desperate bit to protect his wife - “Priya” played by Priyanka Chopra and his father “Rohit” an older version resuming from the previous film - played by Hrithik himself – from a sudden outburst from the Evil Villain “Kaal” played superbly by Vivek Oberoi.


“Kaal” - which seems like a crossover between X-men comics and bond villains - the ingenious scientist with magical telekinetic powers, with an outrageous mutation plant somewhere in the north of Singapore - is just exactly the kind of Frankenstein-like lunatic villain that a film like this desperately thrives for(not to mean its good but to say its fun).


The film’s basic plot point revolves around Kaal’s past as the handicapped mad man tries to find out the mysterious truths behind all his magical powers, which seems so inherited from the childhood days itself and something which even his by then father couldn’t explain.


Like all comic book villain’s often turns out – Kaal becomes megalomaniacal and so filled-up with delusions of superiority(fusion is the future!) and goes a rampage against the same society & innocent people – with the intent of retaliating for what his creators did to him so early in his life( If you create for no reason, I kill for no reason).


Through relentless experiments, he invents a venomous virus which kills people and spreads it all across India without knowing our hero “Krrish’s” existence and that his biological father “Rohit” is still alive; the two people who are called up on to take immediate rescue action and in-turn save the humanity from the sinister villainy of “Kaal” by creating an antidote from a DNA capable of destroying the venom. Kaal comes to know Krrish’s identity - who is and what he’s made of – and induces his opposite number to his own place by abducting Rohit and Priya, while replacing the latter with a mutant of his own played brilliantly by Kangana Ranaut.


In a smartly done parallel story, we also discover one of Kaal’s creations – in this case a lady - “Kaya” the mutant/the sidekick to Kaal who is assigned to masquerade as Krrish’s wife “Priya” with an intent of outsmarting our hero and if possible, kill him in the process either by herself or by leading him to Kaal’s remote laboratory residing at the far end of Alps mountains.


It doesn’t take NASA intelligence to come to terms that Kaya will inevitably get fascinated with Krrish’s superhero universe and will fall for him in the process and thereby the film will end up with the all important cinematic duel featuring Krrish and his Nemesis Kaal - exactly the kind of thing we’ve all been waiting for throughout its running time.


In the film’s final sequence – a brilliantly executed third act - we see - Krrish fight it out with Kaal in the streets of Mumbai - accompanied by an array of outstanding technical wizardry – much to the audience’s delight – and also a confrontation alone – which I believe, is enough to do justice to the rabid fans out there - who’ve been waiting for this thing for months & months by scrolling over the cyberspace, buying the merchandize, following star interviews and also bottling up unrealistic fan-boy dreams - ever since the eye campaign and the publicity campaign rolled over.


However, I must contemplate Krrish 3 is not without its fair share of flaws either. The script is water thin, the characterizations are sloppy( especially the mutants), the performances are shaky(Hrrithik as Krrish as well as the father), the BGM is about average, the music is below par( there’s not even 1 song worth of humming), and last but not the least The concept itself – There’s a superhero in each one of us – ends up being a bit of an understatement & underutilized since it was the only thing “human” about this film. The makers also doesn’t waste much time in ridiculing the entire affair by merchandizing Krrish’s equipments in a scene which serves as a footnote to Shah Rukh Khan’s “Lumia” scene from the years biggest blockbuster hit - Chennai Express.


I recommend you to watch this film - For its homegrown by nature USP, for its eye-popping technical wizardry and also for giving us a solid superhero to root for - notwithstanding the imperfections in the same.


After all  " We're not here for Plot or Pay-off, we're here for the cool-ass Motion capture/CGI animatronics and for the last hour or so - Krrish 3 never disappoints."


Go with modest expectations and watch the film with a clear mind – It’s got its heart in the right place & despite the sloppy beginning, slowly recovers, gets it act together in the second half and YES! ENDS WITH A BANG! I’m going with 3 out 5.:)


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