Koi... Mil Gaya (2003)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Rakesh Roshan

Writers:

Robin Bhatt (screenplay)
Sachin Bhowmick (screenplay)

Release Date:

8 August 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

You are not alone

Plot:

A developmentally disabled young man tries to continue the work his father did in communicating with extra-terrestrials from outer space, which leads to something miraculous and wonderful.

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Computer | Spaceship | Transformation | Dumb Police

Awards:

18 wins & 20 nominations

Cast

Rekha	...	Sonia Mehra
Hrithik Roshan	...	Rohit Mehra
Preity Zinta	...	Nisha
Rakesh Roshan	...	Sanjay Mehra
Prem Chopra	...	Harbans Saxena
Rajat Bedi	...	Raj Saxena
Johnny Lever	...	Chelaram Sukhwani
Mukesh Rishi	...	Inspector Khurshid Khan
Anuj Pandit	...	The super six
Mohit Makkad	...	The super six
Jai Choksi	...	The super six
Omkar Purohit	...	The super six
Hansika Motwani	...	The super six
Pranita Bishnoi	...	The super six
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Beena Banerjee	...	Nisha's mom
K.D. Chandran	...	Government Officer
Akash Khurana
Anjana Mumtaz	...	Mrs. Harbans Saxena
Kamya Punjabi
Indravadan J. Purohit	...	Jadoo character performer
Aryaman Sapru
Sheeba
Rajeev Verma	...	Nisha's dad

Also Known As:

I Found Someone (International: English title) (informal literal title)
I've... Found Someone (India: English title) (literal title)

Runtime:

171 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX

Certification:

Malaysia:U | UK:12A | India:U | Canada:G (Ontario/Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia)

Filming Locations:

Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Company:

Film Kraft

Trivia:

Jaadu was played by 'Chhotu Dada', who acted blind in a costume with an animatronic head on top.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Nisha takes Rohit to the club to meet her friends, he is wearing a blue-checkered, half-sleeved shirt with black suspenders. After he starts singing outside after the rain begins to fall, you can see that he now has an off-white t-shirt underneath his blue shirt and proceeds to wear it all throughout the song.

Quotes:

Rohit Mehra: Ma says sinners get punishment. I've done no sin, so why am I being punished?

Movie Connections:

References Cape Fear (1991)

Soundtrack:

Koi Mil Gaya

Bollywood in Sci-fi league

I am generally averse to any of the Bollywood movies inspired by Hollywood - they end up half-baked dodo's. How-ever after having watched Koi Mil Gaya I must admit that::

01. Bollywood comes to technological age

02. Hritik stands above the story and script

Hritik gets into the skin of the character and delivers a mind-blowing performance which patches up for the flaws in the movie and all the rant critics had about being inspired from dozens of Hollywood movies. We truly have an actor who is dedicated and perfection is his ultimate goal.

Undoubted the movie is inspired from E. T, Independence Day, Forrest Gump, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Jack but doesn't appear force-fit and nicely blend into actual storyline. It appears that Rakesh Roshan and Hritik Roshan acted as perfect reality- check for each other. Roshan's should be lauded for the risk they undertook and it has paid off indeed.

As in E. T., I was expecting the alien to steal the show - but I guess Hritik proved to be strong competitor.

Rekha fulfills her dream of being Hritik's mother (which she claimed at Awards shows, a few years ago!). And Rakesh Roshan must have fulfilled his dream of playing screen-father. Preity Zinta was good.

Songs always have been the forte' of Rakesh Roshan movie - thanks to brother Rajesh Roshan. This time around Chitra gets a break. Dances need a special mention.

SFX are okay - by Bollywood standards. And Johnny Lever needs a major overhaul - please learn a thing or two from Paresh Rawal.

With stupendous success of KMG, I was expecting a trend of sci-fi movies in Bollywood but I guess the hamlet still fears to tread the path less-traveled.

Rejoice - we have had a beginning..... and a good one!