Koi... Mil Gaya

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Koi... Mil Gaya

DVD Cover for Koi ... Mil Gaya
Directed by Rakesh Roshan
Produced by Rakesh Roshan
Written by Robin Bhatt; Sachin Bhowmick; Honey Irani; Rakesh Roshan; Javed Siddiqui
Starring Rekha,
Hrithik Roshan,
Preity Zinta,
Rakesh Roshan
Music by Rajesh Roshan; Ibrahim Ashq; Sayeed Nasir Faaraz
Distributed by Film Kraft, Yash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd
Release date(s) August 8, 2003
Running time 179
Language Hindi
Budget 350,000,000 INR (estimated)
Followed by Krrish
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Koī... Mil Gayā (Hindi: कोई मिल गया, Urdu: کوئ مل گیا, translation: I Found Someone) is a 2003 Bollywood science fiction film, directed by Rakesh Roshan (who also has a cameo role), starring Rekha, Hrithik Roshan, and Preity Zinta, and released on August 8, 2003. The film shares many plot elements with Steven Spielberg's E.T. and Satyajit Ray's The Alien, and may have been inspired by them. (Incidentally, E.T. was itself inspired by the script for the The Alien.) The movie also draws from some scenes in Flubber starring Robin Williams. Koi... Mil Gaya is said to have inspired an Indonesian television series Si Yoyo, which also features a miraculous alien visitor.

Rakesh Roshan has produced a sequel to the film titled Krrish, which opened worldwide on June 23, 2006 and has also become successful.

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[edit] Summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Hrithik Roshan and Preity Zinta as featured in the film
Hrithik Roshan and Preity Zinta as featured in the film

A Sindhi scientist named Sanjay Mehra (played by the film's director Rakesh Roshan) creates a computer from which he dispatches sounds, hoping to attract the attention of extra-terrestrial life. When he finally receives a response, the scientific community mocks him.

As he is driving home, an alien spacecraft enters the vicinity, causing his car to malfunction and crash. Dr. Mehra is killed. His pregnant wife, played by Rekha, survives the wreck but her son Rohit (played by Hrithik Roshan, who is Rakesh Roshan's son), when born, is developmentally disabled.

His mother raises him with tender care and he grows up to be a young man of limited intellect and childish personality, yet with a loving heart. Rohit has a number of much younger friends, children with whom he plays and who are very loyal to him. He also befriends a young woman named Nisha (Preity Zinta). Nisha feels empathy for him and humors him as one would humor a child-- having learned of his retardation from his mother, who chastises Nisha's suitor Raj for beating Rohit up.

Rohit and Nisha find Rohit's father's alien-contact computer and summon the aliens by accident. The visiting aliens leave in haste and one of them is left behind. Rohit, Nisha, and Rohit's young friends find him, befriend him, and name him Jadoo (meaning "Magic" in Hindi and Urdu) when they discover his abilities of psychokinesis. Jadoo's remarkably vast intelligence leads him to discover that Rohit is mentally subnormal, whereupon he uses his magic to enhance the boy's mind. Rohit becomes a child prodigy. He is now accepted by young-adult society. Only the loyalty of his friends and Nisha's increasingly sexual feelings for him prevent him from total arrogance. Raj and his sycophants attempt to embarrass Rohit multiple times, only to be beaten in fights as well as in a basketball game, wherein Rohit's bodily strength has increased with his mental calibre.

Nisha and Rohit spend more and more time together, before and after his enhancement; ultimately Rohit proposes marriage to her. She agrees. Jadoo's presence is kept secret from all humans except Rohit's friends and mother.

However, the government has not given up their search for the alien arrival. Police capture Jadoo, who is rescued by Rohit. Jadoo flees in his spaceship and apparently takes Rohit's new powers with him. Rohit is again mentally retarded, which change saves him from prosecution by the government. But this is not the end. Jadoo restores Rohit's special abilities -- permanently. Nisha and Rohit can now lead a happy life together.

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[edit] Soundtrack

[edit] Songs

  1. Haila Haila (Udit Narayan & Alka Yagnik)
  2. Idhar Chala Main Udhar Chala (Udit Narayan & Alka Yagnik)
  3. In Pancchiyon (Shaan, Kavita Krishnamurthy & Baby Sneha)
  4. Instrumental Theme (Preeti Uttam)
  5. It's Magic (Taz)
  6. Jadoo Jadoo (Adnan Sami & Alka Yagnik)
  7. Jadoo Jadoo 2 (Udit Narayan & Alka Yagnik)
  8. Koi Mil Gaya (Udit Narayan & Chithra)

[edit] 2003 Filmfare Awards

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[edit] Trivia

  • Preity Zinta's role was first offered to Aishwarya Rai.
  • The melody that the Earthlings use to communicate with the alien is actually “Trans-Europe Express” by the legendary electronic band Kraftwerk.
  • In the movie, Rakesh Roshan mentions that he uses sound waves to communicate with the aliens. Sound waves cannot travel through space.

[edit] External links

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