Bollywood’s top star Hrithik Roshan’s forthcoming film ‘Krrish 4’ is once again in trouble these days. According to reports, the budget of this film should be around Rs 700 crore, but no studio is ready to invest such a huge amount. After a big production house like Marvel, no studio is ready to take a risk on ‘Krrish’ with such a big budget, especially when it has been more than a decade since the third part of this film ‘Krrish 3’ was released.
Krrish is considered Indian cinema’s first such film series. All three films star Rakesh Roshan’s son Hrithik. The films are centered, initially, on a mentally disabled boy who has an encounter with an extraterrestrial being, and later, his son, who grows up to be a reluctant super-hero- Krrish.
Earlier Hrithik Roshan had handed over the direction and production of this film to Siddharth Anand, but now there are reports that Siddharth Anand has dropped out of this project. According to a Bollywood report, now Hrithik and his father Rakesh Roshan have started looking for a big deal from the studio for the film.
According to reports, now the film will be produced by Filmkraft in collaboration with a big studio, while Anand’s production company Marflix will focus on its other projects. Earlier, the film was scheduled to start in the second half of 2025, but now it may be postponed till 2026 due to budget issues.
Apart from this, director Karan Malhotra, appointed by Siddharth Anand, will also no longer be a part of ‘Krrish 4’. After Siddharth’s exit from the project, Karan has also left the film.
Now a new team will be formed for the film, which will first work on the budget and then start shooting the film. The situation may get better for Hrithik when ‘War 2’ releases and achieves success. Official confirmation regarding the film’s schedule is yet to be given by the makers of the film.
Though other Indian superheroes such as Shaktimaan and Toofan existed before, Krrish was the first major Bollywood superhero which influenced a plethora of upcoming Bollywood superhero movies. Krrish laid the foundation of high budget Bollywood superhero genre and his influences are still relevant.
Krishna Mehra, better known as Krrish, is an Indian superhero appearing in the film series of the same name. He made his first appearance in Krrish, the second film of the series. The character was created by Rakesh Roshan and is portrayed by Hrithik Roshan, who reprises the role in Krrish 3, the third film of the franchise.
Concept and creation: After the huge success of Koi… Mil Gaya (2003), the Roshans confirmed that they would produce a sequel. They announced that actors Hrithik Roshan and Rekha would return for the sequel, but that Preity Zinta would be replaced by Priyanka Chopra. Chopra also confirmed the same, adding, “The story will start where Koi… Mil Gaya ended.” Rakesh Roshan hoped that the film would be remembered as the first to prove that the Indian film industry is equal to Hollywood. He decided to push the story forward by focusing on the son of the previous film’s protagonist, who would inherit his father’s special abilities. The story combined elements of Indian mythology (the main character’s name Krishna alludes to the Hindu Lord Krishna), Chinese martial arts and Hollywood films to set itself up as a film of global significance.
Who is Krrish?
Krishna Mehra is the son of Rohit Mehra and Nisha Mehra. In the first film Koi… Mil Gaya, Rohit was gifted with superpowers, when he was 20 years old, with his mind and body at the peak of human potential. Krishna was born and inherited Rohit’s mental powers at a young age, while his physical powers grew as he became older and spent his time in the wilderness, surpassing Rohit’s after a point.
Due to his powers, Krishna was a genius and had a high IQ level even as a child. His grandmother Sonia takes the young Krishna to a remote mountain village in northern India to conceal his unique abilities. As he got older, Krishna’s physical abilities grew alarmingly and even surpassed his father Rohit’s by the time he turned 20 years old. At around this time, Krishna meets Priya when she vacations in the country. Krishna and Priya grow close just before she departs for her home in Singapore and while Priya views Krishna as a good friend, Krishna has strong feelings of love. To appease her boss, Priya calls Krishna to join her in Singapore, where she tries to get him to perform heroic acts by using his powers. Krishna does not, as he had promised his grandmother that he would hide his abilities.
Krishna learns that his father Rohit was hired to help design a machine to see the future by Dr. Siddhant Arya. He further learned that Rohit had been killed by Dr. Arya when the former tried to destroy the machine, after learning of Dr. Arya’s evil intentions. This caused his mother, Nisha, to die after being depressed. However, Dr. Arya had used Rohit’s notes and rebuilt the computer with a team of highly qualified scientists, which took them 20 years. And, so on…… Actually, Krrish inherited his abilities from his father Rohit Mehra, who was augmented by his extraterrestrial friend Jadoo. Krrish’s abilities seem to excel Rohit’s, as a younger Rohit had demonstrated vulnerability against human foes, while Krrish has comfortably handled superhuman foes like Kaal’s mutants.
In fact, is a master of martial arts, and has proficient skill with weapons. He acquired these abilities after looking at Kristian Lee’s performance, making use of his great observational skills and eidetic memory.
After being killed by Kaal and resurrected by his father, Krrish could use telekinesis, employing it to fly at supersonic speeds. He can also stop projectiles with telekinesis, even being able to redirect them with greater velocity.
Krishna later goes to a circus where an explosion occurs. He puts on a mask to hide his identity in order to save some trapped children, after which he is given the identity of a superhero Krrish. One of the scientists in Dr. Arya’s team tells Krishna that his father Rohit is alive; Dr. Arya was keeping Rohit alive since he needed Rohit’s retina scan to start up the future-seeing computer.
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