Krrish 3 Review

The Target Audiences For Krrish 3 are Indian Children Up To Age 13 and People Addicted To Disprin Tablets.

Rating: **

Director: Rakesh Roshan

Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Vivek Oberoi, Kangna Ranaut

Krrish 3 is a desi concoction of every post-Spiderman Hollywood superhero film that’s bombarded multiplexes across the globe. If it’s DNA were extracted by a film theorist (assuming here that the theorist would really bother to dissect this movie, or even shortlist it for the same), it would probably show traces of our friendly-neighborhood Spidie, the blue-suit (this time without red-chaddi) Man of Steel Superman, Ironman, Star Trek Into Darkness and even the rebooted Amazing Spiderman. The film also picks up the famous ‘Mere paas..’ track from Zanjeer, albeit replacing the ‘Ma hai’ with ‘Baap hai’; it’s revealed post-interval that our superhero Krrish and his nemesis Kaal share the DNA of Rohit Mehra, the lovable protagonist in Koi Mil Gaya who’s become really creepy by now.

Both Krrish and Kaal could be rechristened Rajni-Krrish and Rajni-Kaal for their ability to surprise us with new powers unexpectedly at any point of time in the film. It isn’t surprising, though, to hear that two Indian VFX studios – Red Chillies VFX and Pixion – were responsible for the special effects. Both companies obviously seemed intent on proving to the whole wide world how greatly India has advanced in the field of VFX, and so they got a green signal, a free will from director Rakesh Roshan and his team to include everything in – everything! Krrish has super-sensitive sight and hearing, and he can leap over skyscrapers, sprint at lightning speed and lift a huge building too; if these weren’t enough, he also gains the power of telekinesis later. Kaal, on the other hand, is the master of telekinesis and the founder of Kaal Enterprises, a secret organization in some remote icy location which performs two jobs: a) generating super-strong ‘Maanvars’, a mutant fusion between man and animal, and b) spreading a deadly viral epidemic using Kaal’s venomous blood; anyone who’s seen Ironman 3 will note here just how similar Kaal and Adrich Killian are.

One of the Kaal’s maanvars includes catty Kaaya (played by Kangana, who’s probably inspired by the character of Poison Ivy from Batman and Robin), a shape-shifter who can walk through walls and also rip a person’s heart out. As we never see the beating organ in her hand, considering the camera is placed over the victim’s shoulder each time, we only assume she’s ripped their hearts out or performed something similar to five-point heart exploding technique from Kill Bill. She offs Dr. Alok Sen, a whistler-blower in Kaal Enterprise who contacts Dr. Shetty from Indian Research Institute to inform him about Kaal’s activities and hand him the antidote to the virus. When Dr. Shetty witnesses Kaaya’s transformation, he faints and mysteriously disappears from the rest of the film instead of gaining consciousness and alerting the IRI; considering his profession, even his disappearance should’ve created news. Rakesh Roshan

casually chooses to overlooks many such inconsistencies plaguing Krrish 3 only because it’s a superhero movie, an Indian superhero movie jisme sab chalta hai boss!

Anyways, Dr. Rohit Mehra, also a scientist at IRI, learns that his son Krishna/Krrish’s ‘good blood’ can be used to counter the epidemic. When Kaal and his maanvars strike India after ruining poor Africa (which, I’m not mistaken, never received the

benefit of Krrish’s blood at all), Rohit creates and antidote and instructs Krrish to release it throughout the city; the antidote bursts out like the chemical clouds released by Lizard, the antagonist of Amazing Spiderman, in an attempt to make all humans lizard-like. It should be known that when Krrish isn’t donating blood for antidotes or saving lives, he spends his time searching for odd-jobs as Krishna to ‘hide his identity’ like Spidie. When his dad is one of the leading scientists, why should Krrish work as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant? Is he orphaned like Spidie or Superman, living with his middle-class uncle and aunt? Okay, he wants to remain low, but look at this guy’s nerve – he ends up getting fired from every job he takes and yet dances to the tune of ‘Raghupati Raghav’ moments after losing his job as a waiter! In India, a country with high unemployment rate, shouldn’t a Superhero leave these jobs to more deserving candidates whose parent is NOT a world-renowned scientist?!

Many lives are lost before Krrish releases the antidote, but instead of including a scene where the survivors mourn for their lost ones, Rakesh Roshan puts in an anthemic song where people hail Krrish as a savior and dance before his massive statue, erected days after the incident. The scene is made even more distasteful with its product placement of Krrish wrist band, which everybody flashes when they raise their hands in triumph, saying ‘Main Bhi Krrish Hoon!’.

Kaal learns about Rohit and Krrish and kidnaps Rohit during his trip to Singapore, and asks him about Krrish’s whereabouts. He also kidnaps Krrish/Krishna’s wife Priya (Priyanka Chopra, reprising her role from prequel Krrish) and sends in Kaaya (who transfigures into Priya) to extract information from Krishna’s house. The villains do not realize that Krrish and Krishna are the one and the same, and neither does anybody else except Priya and Rohit. He’s weaking a black, flashy mask over his eyes and a cape, you know? But we’re to overlook this too, just as we overlooked normal girl Miley Cyrus’ transformation into singing sensation Hannah Montana in the TV show Hannah Montana; Miley was brunette, Hannah was blonde – look, they are different!

Krrish not only chucks logic out of the window, but also puts in lackadaisical effort in making its VFX look realistic. The close-ups during action sequences manage to hide the choppiness in the animation, but then there are the bird’s eye view shots of the city, which looks obviously computer generated. The animators miss out on details, on Billboard signs, on sunlight and shade, on birds, on dust particles in the air etc, and end up creating a city that looks like something taken from a 2004 Spiderman videogame.

I know my cousins shall love this film, watch it a couple of times and buy all the Krrish merchandise they can get their hands on. In PVR Cinemas Vadodara (horribly maintained; my worst multiplex experience yet), I saw this film first-day first-show. Kids loved it, and adults laughed at its inanity. The only target audience for this film is Indian children up to the age of thirteen (in case of American children: 6), and people addicted to disprin. Mr. Roshan and team, here’s my suggestion for Krrish 3 merchandise: Krrish disprin tablets (for consumption by teens and adults only).