Science fiction film of India

Though fewer in number than in Hollywood, Science fiction films have been directed in India.

History

In 1952, the film Kaadu was made, which was a Tamil-American co-production.cite web |title=Science Fiction in India|url=http://sciencefictionlab.lcc.gatech.edu/subTopicIndia.html] The Alien was a science fiction film under production in the late 1960s which was eventually cancelled. The film was being directed by Bengali Indian director Satyajit Ray and produced by Hollywood studio Columbia Pictures. The script was written by Ray in 1967, based on "Bankubabur Bandhu", a Bengali story he had written in 1962 for "Sandesh", the Ray family magazine. In 1987, superhero film Mr. India was made. "Indiatimes Movies" ranks the movie amongst the "Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films". [http://movies.indiatimes.com/Special_Features/25_Must_See_Bollywood_Movies/articleshow/msid-1250837,curpg-6.cms] Mr. India brought the idea of science fiction to the general people in India. In 2003, Koi... Mil Gaya was made.cite web |title= Across Time and Space|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2003/11/21/stories/2003112101020100.htm]

Films

*Kaadu (The Jungle): A 1952 film. A Tamil-American co-production, this film was about an expedition to find the cause of strange behaviour of animals in an area. As it turned out, the reason of this abnormal behavior was an invasion of wooly mammoths.cite web |title=Science Fiction in India|url=http://sciencefictionlab.lcc.gatech.edu/subTopicIndia.html] cite web |title=India's Hollywood Takeaway|url=http://www.computercrowsnest.com/sfnews2/03_sept/news0903_3.shtml]

*Koi... Mil Gaya: A 2003 Bollywood alien visitation film,cite web |title=Koi Mil Gaya|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254481/ "IMDB"] cite web |title=Koi Mil Gaya, India's first Science Fiction Film|url=http://www.concatenation.org/articles/koirevised3.html] directed by Rakesh Roshan, 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".

*The Alien - A science fiction film under production in the late 1960s which was eventually cancelled. It was based on a short story named "Bankubabur Bandhu (Banku Babu's Friend)" by Satyajit Ray where an extraterrestrial by the name of "Mr. Ang" visits a Bengali urbanite while visiting a village in the 1960s.

*Patalghar - a Bengali language alien visitation film.

*Mr. India - A Hindi-language superhero film,cite web |title=Mr India|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093578/ "IMDB"] directed by Shekhar Kapur, starring Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, and Amrish Puri.

*Krrish - A Hindi-language superhero film.

*Bharathan - a Malayalam science fiction film.cite web |title=Bharathan Preview|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/preview/8985.html]

*Athisayan - a Malayalam science fiction film. [ [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2007/01/06/stories/2007010601670100.htm The Hindu : Metro Plus Thiruvananthapuram : Standing tall ] ]

References

ee also

*Cinema of India
*Bangla science fiction