Rakesh Roshan Hrithik Roshan plan to re-release Koi Mil Gaya on August 4 in 30 cities
Rakesh Roshan Hrithik Roshan plan to re-release Koi Mil Gaya on August 4 in 30 cities
Rakesh Roshan and Hrithik Roshan plan to re-release Koi Mil Gaya on August 4 in 30 cities.
It was in August 2003, that Rakesh Roshan directed son, Hrithik Roshan in Koi Mil Gaya. Over the last 20 years the film has gone ahead to attain a cult status in Indian cinema.
Interestingly, the film broke all the norms conventionally termed to be a film with all ingredients of success, and stood the test of time to be relevant for decades to come by.
With the film clocking 20 years since its release on August 8, plans are afoot by PVR Inox for a re-release of Koi Mil Gaya on August 4 across 30 cities.
The motive behind is to celebrate the cult classic and make the viewers experience the magic again on the big screen.
Actor-Producer-Director Rakesh Roshan is much in elaan with the development. The filmmaker over a media interaction confirms the development of re-release plans for Koi Mil Gaya.
According the actor-filmmaker, the team at PVR Inox reached out to him to celebrate 20 years of Koi Mil Gaya. He was very much overwhelmed to know of their plans and jointly decided to re-release the film on August 4th across 30 cities in India.
The idea is to relive the nostalgia of the film and re-release it in PVR Inox cinemas pinning hopes that the re-release will mark to be a family outing with parents taking their kids to cinema halls and introducing the new generation to Jaadoo, even as the parents reminisce memories of watching the film 20 years ago.
He goes on to add that its surreal to receive love for the film even 20 years following it’s release. He set out to make Koi Mil Gaya as a children’s film that enjoyable by the kids and also entertain their families. It was a risk he was taking as a filmmaker by introducing a Sci-fi film with an alien, but the audience response was his biggest reward. It was satisfying and boosted his belief as a film maker to keep making films on different genres, storylines and keep experimenting.
Rakesh Roshan opened up on the cult status of Koi Mil Gaya
and well aware on all the conversations around the film on the digital space as also the pop culture references. “
20 years later he keeps watching Koi Mil Gaya being spoken about, whether it is social media creators recreating Rohit’s (Hrithik’s character in the film) dialogues or references to Jaadoo every time there is an alleged Alien spotting around the world, a sonic boom event being heard from the sky or the various memes on ‘Om om om’ or ‘Dhoop’ across the internet. Knowing that it’s 20 years, and Koi Mil Gaya is still etched in the audience’s mind is a very heartwarming feeling,” he concluded.
Directed by Rakesh Roshan, Koi Mil Gaya is produced by Rakesh Roshan’s FilmKraft Production. Starring Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Rekha alongside Johnny Lever, Rajat Bedi, Prem Chopra and child artists Hansika Motwani, Anuj Pandit Sharma in pivotal roles. The Sci-fi musical Koi…Mil Gaya and India’s first superhero film Krrish franchise also stands to be the first multi-genre story franchise that carries forward characters and storyline from its preceding parts.
News input KV Raman
