Hey Krishna

Packed with iridescent hues, outrageous characters, epic cartoon battles, and endearingly loopy musical interludes, Hey Krishna is about as much fun as you can have in a movie theater. As it turns out, Hindu deities make awesome cartoon superheroes and villains. For this is the story of the child Krishna, the naughty prankster with the beautiful blue hue and long eyelashes — and a particular fondness for milk. A prophesy foretells that the brutal tyrant Kans will be killed by the eighth child of his sister Devaki — and so Kans has Devaki imprisoned, and each of her children is taken away at birth and destroyed (tastefully, mind you — this is a children’s movie!). But her eighth child, the infant Krishna, is spirited away to a nearby village to be raised by peasants. When Kans hears that Krishna has escaped his fate, he sends out demons and monsters to finish the job. And Oh what monsters! In one of the film’s more outré musical numbers, the bodacious she-demon Putana (Bollywood pop-star Sunidhi Chauhan) as- cends from the netherworld like a pole-dancer and attempts to kill Krishna by breastfeeding him with poisoned milk — only to have Krishna (somewhat alarmingly) defeat her by…well, we won’t spoil it for you, just go see the movie.