Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) on Netflix
NR20032h 45mDramaFantasyRomance
Rohit Mehra, a developmentally disabled man, lives with his mother Sonia in Kasauli, where he is taunted at school. He finds his father's supercomputer, built to reach extraterrestrials.
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Plot summary
Scientist Sanjay Mehra builds a supercomputer and transmits the syllable om into space, convinced that life exists beyond Earth. When a reply finally comes, his colleagues mock him. Driving home afterward, he sees an alien spacecraft overhead; distracted, he crashes, and the accident injures his pregnant wife Sonia and kills him. Sonia survives and gives birth to Rohit. Fearing that surgery to correct his developmental disability might paralyze or kill him, she raises the boy in Kasauli. Years later Rohit, now grown but still a school student because of his condition, is teased by classmates. Six children keep him company. When Nisha arrives, she takes offense at his childish pranks, and Raj and his gang attack him; Sonia explains his condition to Nisha, who gives him a bicycle. Rohit and Nisha then discover his father's old computer.
Cast
- Mohit Makkadas The super six
- Jay Choksias Aslam
- Omkar Purohitas The super six
- Pranita Bishnoias The super six
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Koi... Mil Gaya (2003)
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The climax of Koi... Mil Gaya was shot in two versions: in one, Rohit lost all his powers after Jadoo left Earth; in the other he kept them. Rakesh Roshan chose the second after hearing the views of directors Aditya Chopra, Karan Johar, Subhash Ghai and Yash Chopra.- Indravadan Purohit, who played the alien Jadoo, needed oxygen after shooting every one of his scenes so he would not suffocate; the mask he wore was heavy and had taken nearly a year to build.
- In 2020, after the United States Department of Defense published footage of an unidentified flying object, memes about Koi... Mil Gaya went viral, most of them using the scene where Rohit summons aliens through his father's computer.
- Rakesh Roshan got the idea for a film about extraterrestrial life from watching his five-year-old granddaughter view a cartoon-network series about aliens. He told Hrithik Roshan while the actor was shooting Yaadein in Delhi, and he accepted the part immediately.
- Rakesh Roshan offered the part of the alien Jadoo to 30 or 40 people before giving it to Indravadan J. Purohit, who was hired without any screen tests.
- Preity Zinta got the role of Nisha after Rakesh Roshan saw her 20-minute performance in Mani Ratnam's 1998 thriller Dil Se.. The part had originally been meant for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan or Kareena Kapoor, the latter opting out after making several films with Hrithik Roshan.
- After Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff and Rishi Kapoor all rejected the role of the scientist Sanjay Mehra, director Rakesh Roshan played it himself, marking his return to acting after the 1999 film Mother.
