Indian Superheroes

Written by navyd October 22, 2011 449 0Add

With the release of his upcoming sci-fi film 'Ra.One', superstar Shahrukh Khan feels that Indian cinema would get its own superhero, pushing imported 'Batmans' and Harry Potters to the back seat. "This film is one of its kinds and I am saying this from my 20 years of experience in Indian cinema. We all in the entertainment industry do look at it as something that will take Indian films forward, not because I have made it and not because all of us are part of it.

Let's have a look on Indian Superheroes though !

Can someone tell me what all this hullabaloo is about? Krrish and Enthiran and Ra.One — a new wave of Indian superhero movies, the so-called next level, reflective of the recently acquired international taste of the Indian audience?

What? Superheroes newto Indian cinema? I beg to disagree. All our action heroes, for decades, have been superheroes. Spiderman and Green Lantern can just stuff it.

Sure our Indian superheroes did not wear Tron-and-Ironman inspired suits (Ra.One) orZorro-like masks and capes (Krrish).

Khan says that the film – in which he stars as G.One, who saves humanity from evil villain, Ra.One – has more special effects than James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster “Avatar” and will mark a shift in the domestic movie industry.

“This film is one of a kind,” Khan told reporters in India’s entertainment capital Mumbai this week. “I feel (it) will take the Indian film industry one step forward from what we have been doing.

“After this film, I feel there will be other Indian superheroes in our films and many more actors to follow.”

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> Hrithik Roshan

Krrish (Hindi: कृष [ˈkrɪʃ]) is a 2006 Indian superhero science-fiction film The film was directed, produced, and written by Rakesh Roshan, while the screenplay was written by Robin Bhatt, Sachin Bhowmick, Honey Irani, Akarsh Khurana, and Sanjay Masoom. The film is a sequel to Koi... Mil Gaya, and relates the story of Krishna (Hrithik Roshan), the son of the previous film's protagonists who inherits his father's superhuman abilities. After falling in love with Priya (Priyanka Chopra), he follows her to Singapore, where he takes on the persona of "Krrish" to keep his identity secret after saving children from a burning circus.

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> Abishek Bachan DRONA

Drona is a 2008 Bollywood superhero film starring Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon and Jaya Bachchan. Drona has been described as Harry Potter meets Prince of Persia, but with an original story

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> Endiran

Enthiran is a 2010 Tamil science fiction film co-written and directed by S. Shankar. The film features Rajinikanth in dual roles, as a scientist and an android robot, alongside Aishwarya Rai whilst Danny Denzongpa,

The film's story revolves around the scientist's struggle to control his creation, the android robot whose software was upgraded to give it the ability to comprehend and generate human emotions. The plan backfires as the robot falls in love with the scientist's fiancée and is further manipulated to bring destruction to the world when it lands in the hands of a rival scientist.

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