The movie Krrish and an Identity crisis!!

Had been to the movie "Krrish" today. First something about the movie - I liked it very much- was entertaining and well made. Special effects were superb. Some scenes reminded me of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (by now, u know which scenes!!) but the effects were apt and well wrapped with the story. The movie has been shot in India and in Singapore.

The things I liked in the movie

1) even though it is a superhero storyline, the sequel to "Koi mil gaya" is believe-able. the story is strong, well fabricated.

2) evergreen and sexy rekha as hrithik's grandmom :)

3) the stunts are simply too good. Hollywood style thrills in a Indian flavour.

4)the locations are superb. Be it India or Singapore the locations were well chosen and the beauty well explored.

5) the songs are very good. esp liked the koi tum sa nahin, pyaar ki ek kahani

6) its simple, sweet and simply superb.

and the BIGGEST of all reasons, Hrithik rocks!!!!!!!!! The guy is handsome, a great dancer, and acts well too.

Krrish is definitely worth a watch. I think this movie has shown what intelligent narration and creative technology can do to simple story line. Its high time such technologies are put to good use. One important thing to note, the tamil movie Boys had already started the trend of using technology like the time slice technique, the matrix effect with 62 cameras in tow for a love song and a fully animated 3D effect characters for another. But unfortunately India means Bollywood so innovations in regional movies are not very well appreciated, rather go unnoticed in tinsel town Mumbai.

Now for the next part, the identity crisis! As I came out of the movie theatre, a singaporean muslim lady happened to be walking out with me. She started by asking me if I liked the movie. I said I did. Then she told me that she didnt have any idea the movie was being shot here in Singapore. I was not surprised, people here never do get the time to do anything other than work...no offense but I think people here work a little too hard :) As I was thinking this, the lady's next comment surprised me. She said "The film only shows Chinese people as Singaporeans, why didnt they show Indians and Malays. We are also Singaporeans." I didnt know what to say. I politely excused myself and joined my group.

Now, thinking about that lady i am wondering where lies the problem. As a outsider I will never know what it is she felt. One thing I do know the movie was not meant to be a cultural encylopedia for Singapore, but more like a tourism promotion. Why should someone feel this way??? Singapore is a multi racial, multi cultural society and as far as I have noticed there is NO racial discrimination, no issues with culture. The majority people here are chinese so obviously the cross section of people u meet are primarily chinese.

BTW This is a serious issue, by mentioning it in my blog, I just want answers to my question. This is not to demean or belittle anyone. This question for me is plain pschyology.............nothing political.

Another question is do u take a movie so seriously that u analyze every detail and think about it. When I see a movie, its part of entertainment. The movie can make me laugh, cry, think and even put me to sleep. I dont search for any inner meaning or motive. But I have heard of people taking movies very seriously. Some go to the extreme of living out movie characters. This is a big topic in itself, I will discuss this later. Right now, its bed time. Me off to bed with a lot of questions in my head.