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Krrissh: A Contemporary Classic
Hi Guys
(In the spate of reviews, I felt like revisiting one of the most underrated & contemporary classics.
It’s called KRRISSH! I happened to watch the film one fateful day amidst a hormonally ecstatic crowd. I felt like sharing my agony with you, which manifested itself in the form of these PJ’s that are actually sadder than their very inspiration
As for film, it is very involving. You get involved in all the things in the world, except for watching the film. And that is what happened with me. Please don’t praise me(if you feel like doing that out of pity or generosity). Praise the film and its makers who inspire me with this super-power!)
Granny Krrish to He-Krrish: Beta, how will you go to Singapore?
He-Krrish: BY AIR, ma!
Why was Krrish shot in Singapore, not Bangalore?
Because over there, the FLYING RATES ARE LOW!
What did the village grosser tell Granny-Krrish when she asked for hair dye?
DIE ANOTHER DAY!
What does Krrish say to Naseer uncle in the film?
Where ART thou?!
What did He-Krrish do when he saw Kris Lee doing acrobatics on the streets of Singapore?
HE GOT CARRIED AWAY!
What did Krrish say to his granny in India when he calls her from Singapore?
Granny, I am on ROAMING!
Why do we always see a packet of TIDE in Krrissh’s village house kitchen?
Because the doctor told him to always eat TIDEY food!
What did he Krrish and she Krrissh do when they went drinking?
They got HIGH!
What did he-Krrish and she-Krrish do from the skyscrapers of Singapore?
FALL IN LOVE!
What song did she-Krrish sing when she is kidnapped by the nasty villains?
Krrish you were here!
Some of Krissh’ favorite songs
I believe I can fly, Aint no building high enough (on flying in India)
Why did she Krrissh’s instructor catch cold?
Because instead of blowing into the whistle, he blew into the inhaler hanging perpetually from his neck like a cross.
Krrissh! From the very start, it grabs your attention and reminds you of the ticket price. Enters a FATHER who looks like all his life he wanted to do this role. The camera angle are hilariously wide, the FATHER looks almost as large as Adnan Sami in a Surf Excel ad. The insanity continues with villagers with in-built microphones in their voice boxes, horses who don’t raise a voice against their molestation by Krrissh himself, teachers who cant think of more innovative ways of paedophile than a freak IQ test shot in haunting room formerly used in Ramsay films (extinct now, for good) with all the more hilarious questions (unfortunately, I missed most of them because I couldn’t help falling from my seat) . Now that I think, there could be an entire film just with that one scene. It has such immense potential.
Why don’t you act in outside productions?
Because I will have to ACT there.
Why do you draw freak sketches of your parents to scare your Granny?
How else will I advertise for Faber Castell in the film then?
Why do you do other students’ homework?
Because I will never be punished for it.
Why don’t you call Jaadu again through that freak alien-calling-device that your dad left in his legacy?
Because in the last film, people remembered him more than me. if I call him again, he will again hog all the limelight.
Why do you display your powers in public when your granny has asked you not to do so?
I get carried away!
Do you have a flying license?
No, I am running a BETA version (of my dad).
Who do you think is more dumb- your dad or you?
I am not gonna reveal the plot of our next film so easily!
Why does your heroine always shout when she sees you?
Because my dad told her, when you can’t act, SHOUT!
Why doesn’t your dad feature in Krrish?
Because he is still fighting a case filed by the scientists who forgot how to call aliens after they saw him in the last film.
Haven’t the aliens sued you?
No, we had an OUT OF COURT SETTLEMENT!
Salim & Sulaiman could not have given a worse background score. I hope this is not their creative demise.
Some sequences are impressive. Hrithik does try, and tries very hard at that! Alas! If only he could use all the money to make this one a memorable Indian superhero flick. And apart from that, I would like to question all the people who are calling it a first of sorts, have you never heard of a MR. INDIA?
Has to be experienced with one’s own eyes! And please keep them eyes open till the end to see the extraterrestrial streak in the sky at the stroke of the miraculous music that even wakes the aliens up!
Tushar Shukla
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I agree…
…and it maid over 100 Crores…what an irony.
:(( :o ~X(
But what is more silly:
Silly Us or Silly them.
well, can’t generalise. Its not the first time that it has happened. There is this passionforcinema and there is an entire billion people over there who lap up such stuff.
I am not questioning any opinion.
As for me, I am silly but not silly enough ;-)
Did you notice that all 3 films from father-son duo had same story lines? KNPH, KMG, Krisshh. All of them show HR as dumb/seedha/ type guy in forst half and super smart/super human in second. All 3 of them even have similar character of Heroines girlfriend(sidekick).
Truely, it happens only in india that such mediocre stuff makes millions. The fact is we are a country of underachievers and bunch of loosers as far as anything in sports/arts/cinema goes when compared at global level. Tough to swallow but a fact is a fact. Look at our cricket team, our mediocre cinema, their are very few good authors from india and also there is absolutely no reckoning in any of the outdoor sports at world level.
guilty as charged.. watched this one in the theater bc of the hype… i’m sure many others on PFC did too.. c’mon now, don’t be shy b-)
hey, at least we’re not as stupid as this guy…
http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/article/23296.html
hey striker, I was actually waiting to see this film, and this desire was unlike the desire to see a Fanaa(I actually had expectations from it!). I wanted to see it because I knew I will have an amazing time laughing at the heights of cinematic liberties. I had missed watching koi mil gaya in theatre, and was waiting for the sequel(i thought the next edition would have more of JAADU!). I had also ‘enjoyed’ watching kaho na pya hai n amisha patel’s dyslexic dramatic outbursts.
You may call me lame but technically, i wasnt disappointed in the case of a KANK or a Fanaa(which seem to underestimate the intelligence of our audience….oooh sorry for using the done to death phrase but i had no substitute!)
Tushar - I dont think films like fanaa, krish etc “underestimate the intelligence of our audience”. In fact they know exactly how intelligent audience are and churn out the stuff appropriately and accordingly and the millions they have earned justifies. Chopra’s and Johar’s know that 90% of their audience have very little IQ and common sense and will love the ordinary produce and the rest 10% will come to give them gaali’s (nevertheless will bring moolah’s)
Hey Jwalant, I agree my statement was conflicted n contradictory. So, let me rephrase.
I was not talking about Krissh when i said ‘underestimate’, in fact all of K series films(by Son & Dad Corporation) play their cards very well, and I don’t have a problem with them(and thats one possible reason why they hardly fail). If I would say after watching them, what crap was that, people would say, what else did you expect anyways?
I meant it for the films that play the pretentious game by ‘belonging’ to either sides, something for everybody kinds.
I felt this way about Black, Fanaa, Corporate, and more recently, Dor, to some extent.
Give me a Govinda-David Dhawan film(the older ones) any day than playing the fool game.
Again, this is highly arguable.
With posting about Krissh, I just meant to have a laugh or two. As for the issue of populist/mainstream/mass cinema being ‘intelligent’, we already have a different thread going on for that.
Again, no offences dude! :-)
nah striker, i did not :d i watched half of koi mil gaya (on tv and nearly threw my remote at it) and if i had watched all of KMG then i probably would have been posting this from a mental hospital.
Jwalant,are you surprised that knph,krrsh and koi mil gaya had the same storyline?Have you seen karan arjun ,koyla,khoon bhari maang and kishen kanhaiya?Surprise surprise!See,now you have 7 films of rakesh roshan with the same storyline…
hey HG, you should have been called Honest Goonda :-)
this discussion has become kind of a I dont see lame films Confession Box!
but seriously, you saw HALF of KMG! i would only commit such harakiri if i wud ve bought an expensive ticket to some multiplex, and annoy the rest of the ppl sittin in the theatre at least for some paisa wasool sadistic pleasure. btw, i too caught the film on TV when my 4 yr old nephew was watchin it avidly, and i caught it at the possibly ‘best’ scene- the basketball match with players flying like they have just had gatorade!
i feel the MTV fully faltu ppl fully exploited the JAADU character. lol, still cant forget the amazing spoofs they made with it! like the preity chacter sayin to Jaadu, main tumhare bachche ki…! this DHOOM spoof, Jhoom, is nothin compared to those masterpieces!
and Chaitanya, lol!
i so find it hard to digest that people thought KMG was a brilliant film. in that movies none of the actors could act; there was even not a story in the film! None of the scenes were original either.
i caught a glimpses of ‘Ghoom’ this summer when I was in India, and i found it funny. the spoof of Dhoom track is quite funny. i have not seen the spoofs of KMG on MTV India. But I take it would have been hilarious.
this is what i want to do; make spoof films, but i don’t want to be some cheap work. i wanna show that audience who appreciate this kinds of movies are uncool and ignorant. basically, i want to take the piss at the audience and filmmakers.
One should actually watch such films ala Krrish, Fanaa to increase one’s immunity towards such ‘art’ of work. Onec you watch Krrish then watching Hadh Kardi Aapne and Co. would be a cakewalk!
HG, even I love the concept of spoofing, but sadly it doesnt get its due. It is written off to be another sub-genre of Humor.
There have been exceptional spoofs, that we never hear about generally.
I saw two such films last night-Monty Python & the meaning of life and buba ho-tep. Catch them if you can.
my concept for a spoof film is, a collage of lame scenes, i.e: take scenes from a few films in a way that each scenes correlate with each other, but don’t change the dialogues. I would like to show the audience why i find those scenes lame through the actors acting. so no way the movie should look cheap. geddit?
oh that sounds like a cool concept, HG!
lol, thanks. but don’t know how to develop it. i have so many ideas and i think all those ideas are brilliant, but don’t know how to develop it and all i know those ideas could turn out to be crap and unoriginal!
:d
I think its high time they should start taking spoofs seriously in India than merely being on TV for filler sake.
We should also have our share of Scary Movie, only our spoof series will be called Hairy Movie, considering half the industry is more concerned about their hair do’s than what they do in the films.
I remember they had started this trend in Filmfare awards, where they used to spoof the top 5 films of the year.
While watching KANK, Fanaa and so many other films this year, all I was thinking of is spoofing them.
I understand that your concept of spoofs is different from mine. You want to strip the films apart in their lame quotient n true color, instead of actually ‘reenacting’ them.
Even I am very sure of my ideas being absolutely pointless for everyone in the world but me!
goondaji, i think i have an idea of what you’re talking about.. check out the trailer of “titanic 2″ in my jack’s back post..
http://passionforcinema.com/jacks-back/
it’s essentially got scenes from various movies but it has been edited in such a way that it really makes it look like it’s an original titanic 2 trailer!! now if only this could be developed into an all-out spoof :-?
yeah something like that. for example, if we were supposed to make a spoof on Yash Raj/Karan Johar/Baratya/ films, then we would take scenes from theirs movies and edit in a way that it looks like one - so in a way we are showing that those movies are same. then by keeping same dialogues and yet showing the audience how lame this movies are…
for example, if the starting scene is that SRK - helicopter scene from K3G - I found that scene lame and funny, where as others went ‘awwwww’. i wanna show the former reaction without changing much.
geddit?
lol! K3G was a collector’s item if you are looking for lame scenes. The opening cricket scene, the saare jahaan se achha and vande mataram-obsessed family, the lame kiddo prize ceremony/school annual function, Hrithik breaking into a jig the moment KJ thinks he can stuff in a song. And most famously/notoriously, the climax, which to me was shamelessly ripped from Mohabattein. Sadly, when i turned to share this discovery with my fellow viewers, i found them going sob sob…
Moreover, they made fun of me calling me an insensitive stone cus I dint cry(???grrr%%$$!!!)
I seriously began doubting my emotional responses untill the same happened with me again in a million subsequent films.
I literally had the last laugh.
even mohabbatein was shamelessly copied from Dead Poet’s Society and shamelesly all the different stories were converted to love stories which was sick!!
saurabh, ya mohabbatein was a copy of DPS, but just because i rate DPS very highly(i didnt like the film so much, its more of a memory associated with it thing for me, it makes you feel good about non-conformism, a poet or an artist’s self-affirmation/self-assurance), i can never talk of mohabbatein in the same breath.
it was a copied for convenience kinda imitation, and IMO, should not even be talked about when one talks of DPS.
at the same time, i did like some moments in mohabbatein, it was not all that bad.
it captured the conflict between the convention and the radical well within the possibilities of sing n dance cinema.