Trailer
Plot summary
Rohit Mehra dies in a laboratory accident in Singapore; his wife Nisha dies soon after, and their son Krishna is raised by his grandmother Sonia in a remote Himachal Pradesh village after his school principal suspects he has inherited Rohit's abilities. Two decades on, vacationing friends Priya and Honey camp near his home, and Krishna rescues Priya from a hang glider accident. Back in Singapore the two women are fired for their long leave, and Honey proposes a television program about him. Sonia objects, then tells Krishna how Rohit built a future-reading supercomputer with Dr. Siddhant Arya. Krishna promises to keep his abilities hidden and leaves for Singapore. There he befriends Kristian Li, and when a firework sets the circus tent alight with children inside, he pulls on a broken clown's mask and turns his jacket inside out.
Cast
- Xia Binas Kristian 'Assumed Krrish'
- Yu Xuanas Handicapped girl
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Krrish (2006)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- During filming of a flying stunt, a wire tied to Hrithik Roshan broke and he fell 50 feet, but he landed safely on a shop's canopy.
- Amrita Rao was originally cast as the female lead and did a photoshoot with Hrithik Roshan, but Rakesh Roshan was dissatisfied with the results and removed her from the project.
- Hrithik Roshan tore the hamstring in his right leg during a circus scene, singed his hair while running through fire, and broke his thumb and toe during strenuous training for the wirework.
- Krrish was the first Indian film shot in Singapore under the Singapore Tourism Board's Film-in-Singapore subsidy scheme, with over 60% of the film shot there.
- Prasad EFX assigned more than 100 VFX specialists to work with Marc Kolbe and Craig Mumma; together they prepared over 1,200 VFX shots, about 90 minutes of screen time.
- While filming in Singapore, the Singapore police blocked roads and protected equipment when the film's action scenes needed two 250-foot-high industrial cranes.
- Krrish was simultaneously released in Tamil and Telugu, and it was the first Indian film to receive advance payments for product placement, music, and international distribution rights.
- Krrish helped pioneer the mainstream superhero genre in Indian cinema and set a new VFX benchmark; at release it was the highest-grossing Indian superhero film and one of the first Indian productions to use large-scale CGI and wire-work.
