Koi… Mil Gaya (English: Found Someone) is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language sci-fi film directed by Rakesh Roshan and is the first installment in the ‘Krrish’ franchise. The film, released on 8 August 2003, stars Hrithik Roshan alongside supporting actresses Preity Zinta and Rekha. Koi… Mil Gaya received the Nati onal Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues, and was screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival and the NatFilm Festival in Denmark. The film won Best Picture, Best Director (Rakesh Roshan), and Best Actor (Hrithik Roshan) through various major Bollywood award ceremonies, including the Filmfare Awards, IIFA Awards, and Screen Awards. The film would go on to spawn two sequels—Krrish and Krrish 3—making it the first of the Krrish trilogy. It also spawned a spin-off children’s TV series titled J Bole Toh Jadoo that aired on Nickelodeon India.[3] The film’s theme has parallels to the 1982 Hollywood hit E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,[4] as well as Satyajit Ray’s The Alien—the story of which is actually said to have been the inspiration for E.T.[5][unreliable source?]However, director Roshan has stated that Koi… Mil Gaya is “not an Indian E.T,”[6] as the story of an intellectually disabled boy coming in contact with an alien appears to parallel The Alien much closer than it does E.T.
