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Stellar Evolution
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He’s rich, famous, good-looking and poised to take Bollywood’s number-one slot. Hrithik Roshan may already be a star, but he’s just getting started
Written by Ashok Gupta
Photographed by Martin Prihoda
Styled by Arjun Bhasin
Hrithik Roshan sits in his den, facing a large mirrored wall behind the sofa. He shifts back his black baseball cap and lays his bare feet on his desk. On the top shelf of the bookcase behind him sits his IIFA 2009 award for Most Powerful Entertainer of the Decade. He grins, looking like the cat who got not just the cream but the entire dairy farm.
At 35, Roshan is now one of the industry’s most bankable actors, recently racking up another stack of awards for his critical and commercial hit Jodhaa Akbar. Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan may still be the industry’s alpha-male leading men, but at 44 and 43 respectively, the countdown clocks on their careers are ticking. If anyone can supplant them in the number-one slot, it is Roshan.
I met Roshan just once before this meeting, in 2003, at a Screen Awards after party at the Vie Deck & Lounge in Juhu, Mumbai. He had just won the Best Actor award for his role as the mentally challenged Rohit in Koi... Mil Gaya – one of nine Best Actor awards he won that year for the film that booster-rocketed him back to star status after a string of flops. He seemed short, in a black suit and white shirt that looked too big for him. All I remember from that night, apart from Bipasha Basu’s legs, is Roshan taking my hand, looking me in the eye and saying, “Hi”, and then, after a perfect I-know-you-know-this-already-but-I’m-going-to-say-it-anyway beat, “I’m Hrithik Roshan.” He must have been saying the same thing the same way all night, to a bar full of journalists high on free cocktails, but it felt like he had said it only once, to me.
Today, Roshan seems even more magnetically self-possessed than he was then. It’s not just the Jesus-esque long curly hair; he’s got a guru-like aura, like he has figured out something the rest of us have yet to be let in on. We meet in his family’s sumptuous, sprawling ninth-floor flat in Juhu, a labyrinth of white marble staircases and beige and brown furnishings, in a small den dominated by a mirrored wall and a widescreen TV. When he takes your hand, fixes that bright gaze on you and splits his bulletproof grin, he gives the impression that there’s no one else in the world he could find more interesting and important.
Perhaps it’s the natural radiance of someone born to a life of money and fame. Like so many other prominent Bollywood figures, Roshan inherited the movie-star mantle from his father, actor-director Rakesh Roshan, but in the stories Hrithik tells of his youth, he was an ugly duckling who turned himself into a swan; a gawky, awkward kid, laughed at for the double-thumb he was born with on his right hand, and hobbled by a chronic stammer and crippling shyness until he was around 21 years old.
“I was a recluse. I was very shy. I didn’t talk much,” he says. “I couldn’t say a word and I wanted to be an actor. And every time I said that, I felt like such a fool because I used to go, ‘I-I-I… w-w-w-want… t-t-t-to… b-b-be… a-an… a-a-actor!’”
Roshan says he looks on his life as if it were a movie. And the way he went from zero to hero sounds like it came straight out of Koi... Mil Gaya, with Roshan as his own Jadoo. Roshan lays out a montage sequence of his young self, inspired, locking himself away in his room for 36 hours, reading aloud into a tape recorder. “I say: ‘I will not come out of this room until I can say these lines fluently.’” At the end of the montage, the wide-eyed young Roshan listens to the tape playing his lines back, clearly: “‘Dude, this is easy! All I have to do is practice!’”
After his startlingly confident debut in Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai in 2000, Roshan suddenly found himself, as he puts it, living the life of a star: “Walking through airports, and just having the feeling that I’m so damn special. And signing autographs, having that look in your eye, and that little frown,” he laughs. “And you have that weight in your face because it’s a heavy life, you know – I’m a star. But I used to keep questioning, why am I so uncomfortable? Why is there this nervous energy? Why don’t I feel good about this?
“When you become a star, you have a tendency, out of insecurity, to always wear a mask, because you don’t want to expose yourself, or you want to show people what they want to see. Being a star is about having that mask on. But I started to grow very uncomfortable with that because I was so involved in trying to live in the truth, and seeing lies and deceit everywhere.
“You get so confused between the person that you are and the persona that is projected on to that big, huge screen. I’ve been on stage where I have 40,000 people shouting my name. I see them up close and they have tears in their eyes. And you could so easily take all that and fill your ego with it and feel like a god, but you finally realize that it is a bottomless pit.”
Over the course of the six years since Koi... Mil Gaya, Roshan has become increasingly selective about his roles, paring down the number of projects he takes on and producing strong commercial performers like Krrish, Dhoom:2 and last year’s Jodhaa Akbar. Kites, due for release in December or January, will be a new departure, a cross-cultural romancer with Spanish, Hindi and English dialogue, set in Las Vegas. In July, he began shooting his next project, a film called Guzarish, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, in which he plays a bedridden paraplegic. “I have to look sick, debauched and very thin,” he says, “so I’ve stopped working out.”
He has now evolved to a new level of confidence, he says, and he’s ready to do more projects that the industry would consider “risky”. “I see everybody doing the same thing over and over again because it works… I’ve reached a stage where I have enough courage… to do films I believe in, whether they’re considered commercial or non-commercial. It really doesn’t matter so much.” Roshan also feels more comfortable with that mask on. “I do it with a sense of awareness now, which sort of depletes the power of the mask. I know what I need to do, because that’s the order of the day and I need to be projected as a star, but I do it in a way that’s a bit more real now.” Still, he painstakingly crafts himself to fit the industry’s demands.
“I am my own product,” says Roshan. “And I have to take care of myself. I have to display myself in the best possible way. My light, my expressions, my clothes, everything has to go right. That’s going to get me my name, my fame, my bread-and-butter, my money for me and my family.”
Production credits:
Hair: Kanta Motwani-Kromakay
Make-up: Vijay Palande
Assistant stylist: Tania Fadte
Set design: Pinakin
Production: Gizelle Cordo, Alecka Micklewright; Hybrid Productions
GQ Photoshoot
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Hrithik on GQ Magazine September Issue
Credit :: Sonia [HrithikRules - Forum]Source :: Mid-Day
Practice makes perfect:
Hrithik Roshan is the cover guy for the September issue of GQ that hits stands next week. The star has spoken candidly about his stammering and how he overcame it by locking himself in a room and practising for hours to talk fluently among others things.
Extracts:
A—a—a-ctor: "I couldn't say a word and I wanted to be an actor. And every time I said that, I felt like such a fool because I used to go, 'I-I-I… w-w-w-want… t-t-t-to… b-b-be… a-an… a-a-actor!'"
On adulation: "You get so confused between the person that you are and the persona that is projected on screen. I've been on stage where I have 40,000 people shouting my name… they have tears in their eyes. And you could so easily take all that and fill your ego with it and feel like a god, but you finally realise that it is a bottomless pit."
On choosing his films: . "I see everybody doing the same thing over and over again because it works… I've reached a stage where I have enough courage to do films I believe in."
Being Hrithik: "I am my own product. And I have to take care of myself. That's going to get me my name, my fame, my bread-and-butter, my money for me and my family."
KITES On the Sets Pics
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Hrithik's Ganesh bhakti
Source :: TimesOfIndiaLord Ganesha arrives at Hrithik Roshan’s grandfather filmmaker J Om Prakash’s house each year for one-and-a-half day.
This year, too, Hrithik was there for the puja and the visarjan. In fact, the actor spent quality time at the Ganesh puja in their family friend filmmaker Mohan Kumar’s house as well, and even did a little jig before taking the Lord to Juhu beach for a late night immersion.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The many faces of Hrithik Roshan
Source :: StarBoxOfficeBollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan has proved from his first film that he is the best. Father Rajesh Roshan launched him in Kaho Na Pyaar Hai. Right then onwards he is very popular among girls and has also he proved his acting ability. Hrithik has been seen in different looks in most of his films. We take a look at Hrithik’s different look.
Kaho Na Pyaar Hai:- Hrithik Roshan got a magnificent break in Kaho Na Pyaar Hai which actually broke many box office records. Hrithik played a double role in the film. His first look Rohit was a normal middle class guy where as in the second half as Raj was a debonair NRI. The contrast of his characters and looks at once struck the audience at his ability to adapt so well to demanding roles.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Big Pictures acquires distribution rights for Kites
Source :: TelevisionpointBig Pictures, the distribution-cum-production arm of Reliance Big Entertainment, has acquired distribution rights of two of the year's biggest blockbusters - Kites and 3 Idiots- for roughly Rs 130 crore.
The buzz in Bollywood circles is that the domestic distribution rights of the Rakesh Roshan-produced and Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori-starrer Kites has been lapped up in the region of Rs 90 crore. In the same breath, Aamir Khan-starrer 3 Idiots, directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, has been picked up for Rs 40 crore.
Kamal Gianchandani, chief operating officer (distribution), Reliance Big Pictures, says, "It's true we have acquired the distribution rights of 3 Idiots recently and Kites a little earlier. But, we are not in a position to share anything on the numbers front."
"These are two of the biggest 'tentpole' films this year. Their box-office potential is huge. Both films can each notch up net collections of Rs 175-200 crore domestically which includes the exhibitor's share. The distributor's share around 50 per cent of this amount," Gianchandani said.
According to Gianchandani, Big Pictures has charted out more or less a three-pronged strategy to circulate films nationally in the sphere of domestic distribution, especially those with a respectable revenue size.
Big Pictures will distribute the films directly in all major territories in the country. "The company has the infrastructure in place to handle this. We are present in all prime territories countrywide," Gianchandani said.
"Further, the endeavour in multiplexes would be to maximise the showcasing of films so that we are able to meet the demand and expectations of all stakeholders, including viewers, in the fist weekend," he said.
The third prong of the strategy is to collaborate with exhibitors in promoting the films "aggressively" coupled with a 20-25 per cent increment in ticket prices for the first weekend. "This will help expand the box-office pie. For the next calendar year, too, we are looking for 8-10 releases with sizeable revenue size," Gianchandani informed.
Hrithik Roshan gears up for release of Anurag Basu's Kites
Source :: Business Of CinemaMUMBAI: Hrithik Roshan has been away from the limelight for some time now. The actor, who has had limited interaction with the media, is now slowly coming out of his cocoon and all this is because his home production, Kites is readying for release.
Hrithik recently performed at the annual Rajiv Gandhi Awards after a hiatus of three years. Just a few days prior to that the actor was a guest for Farah Khan's chat show, Tere Mere Beach Mein, where he spoke at length about how he overcame his inadequacies to rise to become a superstar.
He was also part of the press conference that announced the show to the media. A close aide of the actor said, "Kites is a big film for Hrithik. It will also launch his Hollywood career and Hrithik is going to go all out to promote himself and the film. This is just the beginning. In fact Rakesh Roshan is expected to fly to Los Angeles to show the final print to Hollywood distributors by the end of September."
Hrithik has only been seen at award ceremonies all of this year where he has bagged almost all the awards for the best actor in a leading role for Ashutosh Gowarikar's Jodhaa Akbar. He was also recuperating from an injured knee that has kept him out of action for some time now. But all that is in the past and one can expect a Hrithik media blitz in the times to come. The actor is also busy shooting for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish where he stars opposite Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Hrithik's current look is for Bhansali's Guzaarish
Source :: BollywoodHungama
Hrithik Roshan appeared recently at an event in a completely different avatar. The actor has grown long hair and beard for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Guzaarish. He plays a paraplegic in the movie and acquires to have this particular look.
A source reveals, "Hrithik underwent training and met various paraplegic patients to get into the skin of his character. The actor is on the wheelchair for a major portion of the movie. He used to practice around in his house on the wheel chair and also had read and gone through booklets and guides which gave him information about the physical behavior of such patients."
Hrithik has grown his hair really long and also has his beard grown. While making public appearances he normally gels up his facial fuzz but has the long hair look.
"Neither Hrithik nor his director wanted to make use of any artificial hair. They wanted to have a natural look and one will see Hrithik with this look till the shooting is on for the movie," adds the source.
Get Close to Hrithik Roshan Though VivelWow
Source :: SBWire
VivelWow.com, ITC’s website dedicated to women is giving its members a chance to meet Hrithik Roshan. Its members can also win other prizes by taking part in fun activities such as discussing movies, beauty and fashion.
Mumbai, Maharashtra -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/20/2009 -- All Hrithik Roshan’s female fans now have a reason to celebrate because VivelWow.com is giving them a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get up, close and personal with the heart throb! ITC’s VivelWOW.com a unique website dedicated to celebrate womanhood, gives women a host of opportunities to win gifts, movie tickets and a one in a million chance to meet Hrthik Roshan.
To win a chance to meet the gorgeous actor, members of VivelWow have to earn a certain amount of points by taking part in lots of fun activities like discussing movies, beauty and fashion. Women who accumulate over 350 points could get a chance to meet the handsome Hrithik Roshan!
Members of VivelWow can also win a grand dinner for two at ITC hotel and EDW Fine Fragrance by interacting on the website & accumulating points. Through this initiative, Vivel wants women to have a great time. Along with having a great time, women can also get and share tips about beauty for hair and skin though this website. It is also a great platform to know about the latest movies and catch up on the hottest gossip about Bollywood.
Join http://www.vivelwow.com now and win yourself a chance to rub shoulders with your favourite celebrities.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Hrithik Rehearses for Rajiv Gandhi Awards Ceremony
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