Some of the best news arose on Friday this past week that actor Hrithik Roshan would be making his directorial debut on superhero adventure, Krrish 4. Roshan will also reprise is role as he did for the previous installments, joined by his father, Rakesh Roshan who is producing, alongside Yash Raj Films’s Aditya Chopra.
“I’m passing the baton of the director of ‘Krrish 4’ to my son, Hrithik Roshan, who has lived, breathed and dreamt about this franchise since its inception with me,” said Rakesh Roshan. “Hrithik has a clear and a very ambitious vision of taking ‘Krrish’s journey forward with the audience for the next decades. I couldn’t be more prouder to see him wear the director’s hat for a film that means the world to us as a family.”
The elder Roshan birthed the franchise in 2003 with Koi…Mil Gaya, starring his son as Rohit, a mentally-challenged villager whose late father’s astrological studies embolden him to journey along with his mother, his childhood friends, and newfound love interest on a harrowing adventure, crossing paths with a stranded alien who changes their lives forever. The father/son duo reteamed on the 2006 and 2013 Krrish sequels which focused on Rohit’s son, Krishna, and his evolution as the titular superhero.
Trying to find these films is a little frustrating, particularly with rights issues being the key factor. Zee5 is currently streaming Koi…Mil Gaya though, for anyone curious. The first three films are a near-eight hour saga brimming with Bollywood-flavored fantasy action, spectacle, romance, and melodrama, and a fourth one has been in the works for a while now with an news of an upcoming announcement being teased on social media late last year. It was only a matter of time, but that took quite a while. Geez.
“Hrithik and Adi coming together as a producer-director pair with me behind them is a rare and deliciously creative combination,” Rakesh Roshan continued. “I’m sure they will turn ‘Krrish 4’ into a theatrical experience that has never been made in India. The dream is to make India proud globally with a larger than life experience like ‘Krrish 4.’”
Read more at Variety, and feel free to read my thoughts on the trilogy here and here.
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