India, Sept. 12 -- Our cinema has for long flirted with superheroes, but apart from Krrish, the affairs ended in heartbreak. Drona vanished, Flying Jatt crashed, Ra.One short-circuited, and Brahmastra fizzled out.

Interestingly, Karan Johar's Dharma Productions, which left no stone unturned in pushing its own Brahmastra to its technical limits, is now presenting Mirai. Say what you will, but the man steering the ship at Dharma has a sharp instinct. He had backed the Hindi version of Baahubali too, so naturally Mirai, a mytho-superhero drama, had my curiosity.

Starring Teja Sajja, who played a similar role in the smash hit Hanu Man, the story revolves around Veda. An evil force is out to destroy humanity by stealing nine scriptures that ...