Since the death of her son Rohit and his wife, Sonia (Rekha) has looked after her grandson, and has taken him as far away from the big cities as she can to live in an isolated village in a mountain valley. This is because she doesn't want what happened to Rohit to happen to little Krishna, and when she heard that the boy's I.Q. was far higher than any other child his age, and not only that but he also possessed super strength, she knew that he truly was his father's son. Rohit had been given special powers by space aliens years before Krishna was born, and they had been passed on, but now, as he grows into an adult (Hrithik Roshan), he finds himself restless and wishing to see the world...
Star Hrithik Roshan was a fan of superheroes, so the logical move for him was to star in Bollywood's very own superhero movie for the new millennium, a sequel to his hit Koi... Mil Gaya of three years before. At first the film appears to be using the previous movie as a jumping off point, running through a variation on it only with the boy being a prodigy instead of suffering learning difficulties, and save for Rekha's returning character and the incredible abilites of Krishna it could just as well be a different film altogether, with two of the main characters absent after all.
Ah, but this time they have a few tricks up their sleeves, though this doesn't mean the audience is shortchanged in the romance stakes. While out enjoying nature as is his wont, Krishna catches sight of a parachutist in trouble, so leaps up through the trees after her and grabs her to stop her crashing, allowing her to get back down to earth without injury. And, what do you know? Why, she's beautiful, immediately marking her out as the leading lady. She is television journalist Priya (Priyanka Chopra) on an adventure holiday, but due to an embarrassing mix up and the need for Krishna to hide his powers, she thinks he is a ghost and keeps taking fright every time he approaches her.
They soon sort out their misunderstandings with a dance number and are enjoying each other's company when it comes time for them to part, much to Krishna's disappointment. So when she telephones him and invites him to her home in Singapore, he jumps at the chance (does a lot of jumping, this chap) - not accounting for the fact that his grandmother will be extremely upset should he decide to leave her, highlighting one of the themes about the tension between family commitments and following your heart. Love wins out, but not before Sonia tells our hero of how his father died: in a mysterious accident while testing the supercomputer he designed.
This is where the twist comes, and at this point you may be inquiring, "I thought this was a superhero movie?" Rest assured, that's what it is, and once Krishna arrives in Singapore, surprising Priya by asking for her hand in marriage (which she's not sure how to take, they've only known each other a few days after all), events forge his character as the world's first Indian superhero. Well, unless you count the Indian Superman. And Mr India. Anyway, Krrish is his alter-ego's name and he dresses in Matrix-chic black leather, with a black mask to boot. But every superhero needs his villain, and this Superman's Lex Luthor is Dr Arya (Naseeruddin Shah), the man who plans to rebuild the supercomputer to enable him to see into the future - setting his sights high, he believes he will become God! That's ambition for you. With deceptively simple but impressive special effects placing this somewhere between a Hollywood and Hong Kong action movie, and the requisite love life troubles, Krrish is an enjoyable version of familiar plotlines, and although sci-fi fans might grow restless waiting for that action to begin, it's worth waiting for.
