Krrish

__**The** **plot:**__ The main character of the movie, Krishna, is born with extraordinary talents. His father, Rohit, was gifted aswell. However people took advantage of his talents and Rohit was eventually killed (or so they thought). His mother died in shock of Rohit's death. Krishna's grandmother, fearful that her grandson will share the same fate as his father, takes Krishna away to the countryside in order to keep his gifts secret from the world. There he grows up and unaware of the fact that his grandmother is hiding him. He meets a young woman who is on holiday from Singapore named Priya. He ultimately falls in love with her. After Priya leaves, he begs his reluctant grandmother to let him to go Singapore and ask Priya to marry him. After he convinces his grandmother, Krishna goes to Singapore and convinces Priya to marry him. There he meets one of his father's colleagues. He learns that his father is still alive, but extremely weakened. Throughout the movie, Krishna wants different things. He first wants Priya to marry him. Later when he learns about his father, he wants to save him.

__**The Theme:**__ The theme of the movie is that you should take risks in life if you want to grow. The whole first half of the movie is about Krishna breaking away from his safety fence and his grandmother's overprotectiveness. But he needed it in order to grow and to get what he wanted.

__**The** **Tone:**__ The tone of the film is all over the place. There are happy moments, lovey-dovey moments and moments where you just want to sit down and cry for the characters.

__**Mise-en-Scene**__

1) This scene is one of my favorites in the movie. This is where Krishna is racing his horse home. Crazy right? How can a man beat a horse? Well Krishna can. The first few sceenshots show Krishna as a boy racing his horse, and is clearly losing. But the scene transitions into him growing up, and he ends up beating his horse home. This scene shows Krishna growing up, and his speed increasing. It shows that Krishna is eventually going to want go break away from his barriers and explore the world. The fact that he is spending his time doing such activities, and not going to a university, shows that Krishna is in a world where things that like don't matter. The horse symbolizes his barriers, and when he beats the horse, it suggests that Krishna will break away from such barriers soon enough.



2) This is where Krishna and his friends see a parachute. They've never seen one before, so they assume that is a giant kite. Krishna runs off to go catch it. This scene has a lot of stunts and different angles which show his excitement to go get it. The third screenshot is a worm angle of Krishna trying to get to the parachute. ‍The parachute is a lot bigger, than Krishna in this shot (and in real life), so that hints at the fact that the parachute is going to have a big impact on him.‍ The parachute is also captured mostly worm angles, so that also adds to the foreshadowing of something big about to happen in Krishna's life. This is the beginning of Krishna breaking away from his barriers, because here he meets Priya, who he saves from the broken parachute. Priya basically falls out of the sky, here comes the idea of sheer luck and chance turning Krishna's life around. It was a push from fate that made him break free, that he wasn't forever destined to be protected, but rather to save other people.

3) In the first screenshot the light is focused on Priya's body. It foreshadows that she will be the key to the change in Krishna's life. Krishna is lit up here with backlighting as he looks at her, adding to the tone. He "lights up" when he meets her, foreshadowing that Priya showing up is about to have a positive effect on him.



4) This first screenshot shows Krishna and Priya having a laugh, and their budding relationship. The camera spins around them, hinting that their relationship is spinning his world around. The second screenshot is of Krishna and Priya admiring the view. The color here gives a very lovey, homey feel. The color adds to the tone of this scene, and the tone adds to the theme, which is that Priya figuratively "pushes" him to break away from his barriers and safety zone.

5)  In this scene, Priya is going back to Singapore, and Krishna is sad. Here he follows her bus to get one last glance at her. Priya's face is more brightly lit up, showing that she's the one person that is important in Krishna's life now, and that she is going to make the change in his life. Krishna is shown as really small in all the shots here, which hints that he wont be in the village much longer.The 5th screenshot is an over-the-shoulder shot of the bus leaving. Him watching the bus go shows the Krishna's unwillingness to let Priya go. The shot gives the feeling that Krishna is about to run after the bus. Figuratively he does end up doing just that. The bus is also a little blurry, which hints that the future is uncertain but he knows which direction he wants to go. At the end of the scene, we see a close up of Krishna's face where he lets out a tear. The close up of his face portrays the emotion in this scene, which adds to the tone. Through this we learn that Krishna has fallen in love with Priya, but Priya is unaware. At this point, fate has given its push, and now its Krishna's turn to try harder to break away from his safety zone.



6) This is right after Priya gives Krishna a call, asking him to come to Singapore and talk to her mom, or else her mom is going to marry her off to someone else. Krishna is excited to go, but when he tells his grandmother the news, she strictly says that he cannot go to Singapore. Krishna, not knowing the reason why he can't go, gets angry and tells his grandmother that she's just being selfish, and that if his parents were here, they'd let him go. There is juxtaposition in the lighting between Krishna and his grandmother. Krishna is glowing because he thinks that he's about to go to Singapore, but his grandmother is slightly darker lit than him because she's about to crush his dreams. In the last screenshot, the colors and lighting is dull and dark, reflecting the mood of the scene. His grandmother isn't letting him break away, because of her fear of losing him just like she lost Rohit. But because of Priya, Krishna fights for what he wants.

Juxtaposition in lighting between Krishna and his grandmother

7) In this scene, Krishna's grandmother tells him Rohit's story, and why she's so scared of letting him out of hiding. The colors in this scene are very dark and depressing (Rohit's story is very depressing, but irrelevant to the theme). This is Krishna's turning point, because now he knows why his grandmother has been so overprotective all these years. The atmosphere of the scene shows that Krishna's grandmother is very scared of letting him go, and that Rohit's death still haunts her, which is why she's been overprotective all these years. The background gives the scene a very dark mood. This scene was shot in such a way that we can't see much of the background. This was to make Krishna and his mother the main focus of this scene. The 2nd screenshot is Krishna's grandmother. She is lit half dark and half light. This shows her inner conflict of letting Krishna go out of her protective barrier.



8) This is the morning after Krishna's grandmother tells him the truth about his father. Krishna looks at his father's picture. In the movie, Krishna and his father look exactly alike (part of the special genes). When we see Krishna's reflection, it gives off a feeling of how Krishna is his father's reflection. They share similar personalities, interests, and looks. It also foreshadows that Krishna will soon meet his father in person. The second screen shot is of his grandmother measuring his father's old clothes, because she's letting him go to Singapore (only to ask for Priya's hand in marriage and come back home). The light in this scene is brighter, which correlates with their moods. Here Krishna finally gets what he's dreamed for: he's going to the city.



9) Here is when Krishna meets Priya when he first arrives in Singapore. This particular shot is when Priya spots Krishna through a reflection. Krishna is comparatively very brightly lit, which hints at his innocence and maybe also hinting that he is about to be the "light" in Priya's life. It relates to the theme because by breaking away from his grandmother's barriers, Krishna has now become "the light" of Priya's life, rather than him being the light of his grandmother's life.



10) In this scene Krishna watches a street performer performing karate, so that he can pay for his sister's surgery. The performer gets injured and Krishna feels sorry for him. This shot is when the performer is injured and people around him start leaving. The chaos-looking shot shows the true cruelty of the city, and suggests that this is Krishna's state of mind, because he's really confused that this is what city people are like. The color of the cement ground contrasts with Krishna's village, which is all green grass. This scene opens Krishna's eyes as to what the city really is.