A POTENTIAL INDIAN SUPERHERO UNIVERSE?

With Marvel's 22nd installment of MCU, Avengers Endgame, has released to Earth Shattering response all around. Such response was obviously expected.

However when anyone from our country says something about Indian Superheroes, we in no time start to troll him or assume him in a sarcastic manner. Now, this is obvious. While Hollywood has DC and Marvel, what do we have?

This?.....

a crossover no one asked for ! Literally !

or this.....

I can hear Spider man yelling "kis janam ki dushmani nikal rahe ho mujhse?"

Ra.One

Now many will say that Ra.One is a great superhero film. Ra.One had everything to be a good superhero film. Arjun Rampal's menacing act as Ra.One, Shahrukh Khan's funny act as Shekhar and sincere act as G.One , best VFX seen in Indian Cinema till then, Diwali holiday release. But the movie proved to be a financial failure. Why? due to lack of script and content. The concept of Ra.One itself was illogical (not that you have to search for logic in superhero films, but it was just dumb) and there was honestly no connect with the film. That's why Ra.One also proved to be another Indian superhero failure.

Now if you all are expecting India to produce films like Iron Man, Thor.etc. then dream on. India's costliest film, 2.0 was made on a budget of 500 crores, which was even less than the budget of Deadpool.

Now, let's see whether the universe is possible or not!

Have you ever heard of Raj Comics?

There are super heroes like Naagraj, Parmanu, Doga, Gojo, Bhokal and many more. If modified within limited budget, we could have our own Superhero Cinematic Universe.

OK Forget Raj Comics. Let's talk about the existing suerheroes.

KRRISH

What started as a tale of friendship in Koi Mil Gaya, continued with the birth of a superhero in Krrish and Krrish 3. Although Krrish 3 was the poorest one in terms of quality, it was just Hrithik Roshan as Krishna, which makes you feel that you haven't wasted your bucks. Krrish was the first Indian superhero to have such a fame. Tiger Shroff tried copy the formula and make something worth remembering (The Flying Jatt).

Know what? He himself is trying to forget that he made something like this. Anyways, Krrish was the film which gave Indian audience the hope that superheroes don't always come from the West. Krissh 4 is slated to come on Christmas 2020. But before that, in 2018, came a movie called "Bhavesh Joshi Superhero"

The movie was a perfect superhero movie for our audience. Only if the lead actor would have been someone else, because Harshvardhan Kapoor just spoiled the show at moments and his inability to act was even evident at some scenes but he was even good in some. But apart from that, everything was pitch perfect in the movie and special mentio to Priyanshu Painyuli, who was the actual hero of the movie. Till now these are the only superhero movies which are worth a mention for the superhero category.

MR.X

Mr.X, starring Emraan Hashmi, was released in 2015. I agree this was a flop and it deserved to be one. The story was good and with a good execution and a better starcast and obviously better VFX (than a Windows XP tutorial type VFX), this movie could have done wonders. Plus Emraan Hashmi's act as Mr.X was praiseworthy and there was a connect somewhere in the film just because of Emraan Hashmi. If his talent is utilised in a better way and with better script, then Mr.X has the chance of becoming a good superhero franchise.

P.S- Eros holds the rights of Bhavesh Joshi and the distribution rights of Krrish 3. So there is even 5% chance of getting a universe from these 2. But that still seems to be a dream.