Story Telling: Where RA-One Went Wrong

After watching RA-One while in conversation with Sunny (my friend who accompanied for the movie) we discussed the one very basic thing that was wrong with this movie and had it been taken care of the movie could have been on a different level. I thought I must write this post so that anyone interested in creating a story benefits from it.

There is one basic rule of any sci-fi story and for that matter any story which is told in another space, time and does not follow the understood rules of the nature in the world we know. The rule is that you need to first define the rules of the environment and then follow the rules throughout the story without defying them. Any exception to any of the pre-defined rules makes the story weaker because you end up ridiculing your own rules. Pick any good science fiction and this rule applies. In Avataar Cameron goes to great length to define the Pandora and surroundings. One of the finest such movie I have seen in recent times Inception spends almost half of its run time to first define the rules and then the entire movie is woven around those rules. For that matter take Judgement Day, which loosely inspired some part of the RA-One's plot. Imagine if somewhere in the middle of the movie the robot somehow develops emotional intelligence. He is a machine throughout the movie and behaves basis his programming. I-Robot is another such example. Where rules of the environment are mentioned multiple times through the movie for the audience to keep tab of the same.

Any creative liberties you want to take must be taken while defining the rules and the environment but one the same is defined your story must stick to them without any deviation. Like in RA-One the character of RA-One in the game is a bot and does not need any third party to control it, however the character of G-One needs a player, i.e. any person wearing the suit, to control  it. In the movie sometimes G-One is following the instructions of the kid without being able to act on his own, while in some other scenes he just doesn't need the kid or anyone else to control his actions. Had they remained true to this one rule and would have shown G-One in control of the kid throughout the movie, it could have been more fun. G-One is nothing but a walking-talking computer program out of a first person fight video game and it is silly to show him sing and dance to the tunes of Chammak Chhallo.

I have already spent a lot of words writing about RA-One hence would not go into it again. You can read the other post if interested.

Holocaust: President's Watch

Recently I read a news that George Bush lost his watch, when he was visiting Albania. I gave this idea a thought and I think this could be plot to an action packed hollywood thriller.

Imagine US president is visiting some third world country and when he is waving to the crowd, some pick pocket steals his watch. Now this is not an ordinary watch, there is something special about it. As soon as people know about the incident there is a hunt around the world to find that watch.

Mossad, CIA, KGB, MI5, Al-qaida, Hamas all are trying to get hold of that watch. Our hero who is a CIA agent has been given the job to find that watch before it falls in any other hand. And our villain, who is an Al-qaida activist is trying his best to get to the watch before CIA gets it.

Somewhere in between during a meeting in white house it is revealed to the audience, that this is not an ordinary watch and it holds the key to the US nuclear defense program. The key was built in the president's watch because no body ever thought that someone will ever dare to steal that watch from president's hand.

The whole story revolves around the three main characters, the pickpocket, the CIA agent and the al-qaida activist, played by Tom Hanks, Mark Wahlberg and Eric Bana respectively.

Krrrissh: Sequel to Krrish

Have you ever thought of, what could be the story of the sequel to Krrish. Well I have thought of something and wanted to share it with the world.

The movie starts with dying Rekha (bahut ho gaya yaar, let her die in this one) telling something to Krishna/Krrish. Krishna is furious, his face is filled with anger, hatred and revenge. Nobody knows what Rekha has told him. Next scene Rohit (Krishna's Father) is shown doing something in some place which looks like a lab (remember, he has a very sharp brain. probably the most intelligent person alive). Some sequence of events reveal that, after Rohit was cheated by Doctor Arya (remember, Krrish), his life has changed. He now thinks that this world is full of people who want to cheat him and use his powers for their selfish motives. And he wants to destroy this whole world, so that all the evils are destroyed and few good men left after his ambitious plan is executed, will restart the creation of the society in their own way. The society thus formed will be a better world to live.

On the other hand Krrish is living a happy life with his wife Priyanka Chopra. He is shown helping people using his powers a couple of times. Besides this he is on trail of something. Some sequence of events reveal that, he is actually looking for his father Rohit. He wants to stop his father from destroying the world.

In the climax when both Rohit and Krrish are facing each other, first scene of the movie repeats, with dialogues this time. Rekha actually told Krrish, the reality about his birth and how he has got so many super powers, which no human has. Krishna's mother had extramarital affair with Jadu and once Rohit caught them togather and in fit of rage, he killed Krishna's father (yes Jadu is Krishna's real father, doesn't that justify the super powers he has). He actually took Dr Arya's assignment to get away from the guilt of killing Jadu, who meant so much to him.

Then there is a big fight between Rohit and Krrish, where Rohit uses some of this lab experiments to confront Krrish's super powers. But finally Rohit realizes that he can not defeat Krrish and he disappears (scope of another sequel).

In the end Krrish all dressed up in his superhero costume, is standing on a hill top and looking at the sky. Suddenly a star blinks. (Just following the tradition of last two movies).

Now think of the scope Hritik has in this movie to show the world, how great actor he is. Rohit is an old man, who acts like kids but is with sharp brain and a lot of hatred for this world. On the other hand Krrish is a superhero which has got him filmfare for best actor. This movie will show the darker sides of his personality, which is full of revenge. Rohit might turn out to be the Joker of Batman. You can actually remove the extramarital affair part from the script since it's a superhero flick and will be watched by most of the kids.