Science Fiction in Indian Cinema
Science fiction film is an interesting genre of film that depicts various types of imaginary phenomena based on scientific assumptions. These films either portray robots, traveling in space, spacecrafts, time travel, satellite, extra-terrestrial organisms, future gadgets and many more. Innumerable films have been made in Hollywood based on this theme but in Indian film industry there are very few films based on science fiction.
Indian film industry produces nearly 950 movies in a single year. Still science fiction does not get a very prominent place in the industry. Kaadu (The Jungle) released in 1952 is the first Indian Science fiction. This Tamil-American co-production portrayed a mission to find the reason behind the strange behavior of the animals in a region. Gradually it was discovered that the reason behind this abnormal behavior was the attack of wooly mammoths in the jungle.
However, one of the best science fiction was made in 1987. Shekhar Kapur’s Mr. India is among the most popular movies of Indian cinema that presented science fiction to the Indian masses. The film is about a man who suddenly finds his fathers magical wrist band, which can make the person invisible wearing it. The hero of the film fights with the evil by using the magical power of the band.
One of the most recent science fiction films of Indian cinema is Koi Mil Gaya. To some extent, the film has been derived from Spielberg’s E.T.-the Extra-Terrestrial and Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon. It deals with the life of a mentally retarded person whose life is completely changed by an alien who is left on earth by mistake.
A high level of technical expertise and excellent animation skills are required for the production of these films. Since whatever is depicted on the screen is just the figments of imagination of the writer, so to present those unreal things in a very natural and authentic way the director has to take the aid of animation. Making a science fiction is a challenging job.
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