Snip from a bollywood.com New York Times article by Anupama Chopra, excerpted on Bruce Sterling‘s blog. I spent a couple weeks in Northern India last month, and spotted ads for this in Delhi:
Is the next big thing in superheroes a masked man who
leaps from skyscraper to skyscraper, saves the world
and suddenly breaks into song? Audiences will find out
on June 23, when “Krrish” – a film that showcases
Bollywood’s first fully realized Superman-style hero –
reaches screens.“Krrish” is a sequel to the 2003 blockbuster “Koi …
Mil Gaya” (“I Found Someone”), which was considered
Hindi cinema’s first major science fiction film.In it, an E.T.-like alien descends to Earth and is
befriended by Rohit, a good-hearted young man who’s
not very bright. The alien waves a finger.
Miraculously, the slow, stuttering, myopic Rohit is
transformed into a hero who can dance, woo the
beauteous heroine and defeat the bad guys.
Link to full text of article on Bruce’s blog, and here’s the movie website. Update: here’s the NYT.com link (hides behind a paywall in a few weeks). (Thanks, Vikram!)
Reader comment:
stuvey says,
Shaktimaan is a super cool Bollywood super hero that probably wouldn’t be to happy about Krrish claiming the title of “Bollywood’s first fully realized Superman-style hero.” According to imdb Shaktimaan has a few flix in his back catalog.
Reader comment: Anil Kandangath says,
‘Shaktiman’ is not a Bollywood superhero. That was merely a television
show that started in 1998.