'Koi Mil Gaya': The extra-terrestrial flies from Hollywood to Bollywood!

          New Delhi, Aug 3: After the phenomenal success of the film, 'Kaho Na Pyaar Hai', the talented threesome of producer/director Rakesh Roshan, music director Rajesh Roshan and lead actor Hrithik Roshan have come together again to create celluloid history with the movie, 'Koi Mil Gaya'. Bollywood's first science fiction movie, complete with whizzing spacecraft and friendly aliens, will aim to break new ground in an industry known for its melodramas and mushy romances.

          'Koi Mil Gaya', that is set for release next week, features one of India's most popular stars, Hrithik Roshan, who plays the role of an adult whose mental abilities have not grown beyond those of an 11-year-old. He accidentally establishes contact with aliens while playing around with a computer left behind by his dead father, a scientist obsessed with extra-terrestrial life. "If four and five year old children know about aliens then I thought that it is the right time to launch a film and move ahead than making regular formula films with love stories, love triangles and revenge. So we are just taking a chance," said Rakesh Roshan, producer and director of the film who is also Hrithik's father. The filmmaker, who has several hits to his credit, said he was willing to risk, showing his son prancing around as an 11-year- old, rather than the cliched muscle-flexing romantic hero that has won Hrithik scores of hysterical female fans.

           The visual effects of the film have been created by Marc Kolbe and Craig Mumma who have been involved with Hollywood hits such as Independence Day, Godzilla and Spy Kids. The hazel-eyed Hrithik said playing an 11-year-old though challenging was not difficult, as the child inside him responded automatically to the role. "I basically looked at my childhood, looked very deep inside me and found somewhere a child. I took a lot (of inspiration) from my childhood. So it's an extension of my own childhood. So that is what I basically did, looked very deep inside of me," he said. The gargantuan home production of the Roshans, 'Koi Mil Gaya', is aimed at all audiences and is mounted on an expensive budget. The film is billed to be the milestone a "different" film of the career of the Roshans.