Sussanne adds life to Hrithik
Source :: Headline Today
To all those who think that Suzanne Roshan is just another star wife, I say, mates, think again! She isn't. In fact, Suzanne packs quite a punch in her delicate frame. Having spent a day with her during Harper's Bazaar's cover shoot for the November issue, I must confess she holds her own despite all that her critics want to say. I got the first hint of this from film maker Farah Khan—who revealed that Suzanne is an extremely strong yet unassuming woman and that she actually is Hrithik's huge source of strength.
Hrithik confessed the same at Farah's chat show, Tere Mere Beach Mein. Suzanne, for one has never been under Hrithik's shadow. And a glimpse of that was all too apparent, when the alleged stories of Hrithik and Barbara started doing the rounds. Assuming that there was an iota of truth in those stories, still there were no reports about fights between Hrithik and Suzanne. There were no reports of melodrama either. The only thing that was reported was that Suzanne had left Hrithik's home with her kids and that Hrithik had been caught off guard.
Of course, the couple denied the news and I personally believe that Barbara-Hrithik stories were largely fabricated, but all of this, actually helped bring forth Suzanne minus the Roshan surname. She came across as someone who could completely insulate herself from relentless media glare—No sob pictures, no body language faux pas and certainly no confessions on the sly.
Suzanne kept attending public events, during this time, with Hrithik by her side and despite her easy accessibility at the events, no one in the media could ask her THE question about Barbara Mori. And as I interviewed her the other day, during Harper's Bazaar's cover shoot, I could see that Suzanne says what she wants to and no matter what you do, she won't budge and give you anything that we in our world call sensational!Suzanne did not say anything at all about her personal life with Hrithik—about Hrithik the father, the son, the husband and the brother. I liked her for creating that boundary and for just saying that "Hrithik is a lovely human being". She spoke at length on that front though.
But, But But what immediately struck me, was one sentence she spoke. I asked her, what does Suzanne add to Hrithik and she said, " Suzanne adds life to Hrithik and to everyone around her". I don't think, there has been any star wife lately, barring Gauri Khan, who has the guts to say something like that. But Suzanne did.
And as I saw her-- clicking her own pictures in between the shots, during Harper's shoot, to show them to her kids and Hrithik; exclaiming that "Hrithik is going to say WOW" if he sees her like this right now; jumping with joy over her shoot pictures, clicked by the photographer Prasad Naik; sharing her excitement with her staff, inviting them to see the pictures in the preview monitor; I knew what Hrithik could have fallen for in Suzanne. Hrithik fell for the girl that abounds in Suzanne—the one with twinkling eyes looking at the world around with excitement. Suzanne is right, she adds life to Hrithik and to all those around her. Needless to say then, she is Harper's Cover Girl for November! Get a copy of the issue and relish Suzanne Roshan.
Ash, Hrithik sing for Guzaarish
Source :: Deccan Chronicle
Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan are all set to sing for a track in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish. The song will be recorded by director Bhansali who is also composing the film’s music.
This is the first time Hrithik will croon for a film. As for Ash, Shah Rukh Khan and she memorably sang the track Apun Bola Tu Meri Laila for Josh. Of course, there are reports that she will be rendering a song for Mani Ratnam’s Raavan too.
While the Hrithik-Ash pairing was always going to be one to watch out for — especially after their sizzling Dhoom 2 chemistry — this just makes it all the more interesting.
In Guzaarish, Hrithik plays a paraplegic suffering from impairments of the motor and sensory functions of the lower limbs. Aishwarya Rai plays his nurse in the movie and the duo are learning Portuguese for the film too.
"I'm a magician. I can do anything." - Hrithik Roshan
Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan talks to Instep about perfection, patriotism and Pakistan
By Aamna Haider Isani
Hrithik Roshan is impossible to ignore if you're in Mumbai. He stares down from every second giant billboard, his piercing green eyes convincing you to subscribe to Airtel or wear Provogue. He is by no means Bollywood's biggest star but he is the most visible, and that vision of him is one that his fans awe at. When he walks into the India Couture Week lounge, he isn't surrounded by bodyguards but spotlights, cameramen calling out his name and nickname in hope for that one exclusive shot that will make it to the front page the next day. He stops and talks to everyone, unperturbed by neither the crowd nor the hysteria. It's obvious that while many other superstars prefer to walk in with a human shield of bodyguards protecting them, Hrithik is comfortable in his skin and unafraid to expose it to the harsh spotlights.
From the very public introductions made at India Couture Week to the much more intimate setting of his home, I end up in the Il Pallazzo Building where he lives, to interview him. That appearances do not matter is as much the nature of Mumbai as it is of Karachi, and the façade of Hrithik's residence belies the palatial interior of the four floors he and his family occupy. But despite the unassuming exterior, his address is no secret as a small band of street dwellers are constantly camped outside, playing the hit tune of 'Kaho Naa Pyar Hai' on shehnai whenever they see his car arrive.
Amused by the serenading fans as I wait by the window in his drawing room, I observe his home that is embellished with books, art, statues and portraits that raise his father - Rakesh Roshan - to deity-like proportions. It is apparent that he is the most important person in Hrithik's life. The impersonal space of his drawing room is speckled with evidence of life with family pictures. The mammoth dining table - perfect for the kind of soirees that celebrities are used to hosting - slowly gets trussed up with Diwali baskets to be sent out. It is a festive week in Mumbai and every home is decorated with marigold garlands, well oiled and brightly lit diyas, rangolis and flowers; and Hrithik's is no exception. Drawing a parallel, it is very much like any Pakistani home during Eid. I am allowed a moment to absorb it all before I am brought back with a sudden "Hi".
Hrithik Roshan. If you're thinking of Hrithik Roshan as Emperor Akbar from Jodhaa Akbar or the enigmatic Mr A from Dhoom 2, then you are headed for disappointment. He's nothing like the sweet, muscular young boy that grappled Pakistan as well as India in total fascination when his debut film Kaho Naa Pyar Hai released.
"I knew I would be liked a lot," he says later, when he's talking about becoming an overnight sensation. "I always know the background hum, which is either ecstasy or fear, and when I watched Kaho Naa Pyar Hai the background hum was ecstatic. I didn't know it would make this big a mark though, the success of my first film was an anomaly. What happened with my first film, it hadn't happened before."
He may sound arrogant and all high and mighty but in person Hrithik is anything but. He just comes across as an incredibly confident and fearless actor, someone deriving strength from the knowledge that he will put his one hundred percent into everything he does and in return will be as successful as he deserves to be.
"I live to learn how I can make my life a better story," he introspects and one has to make a repetitive effort to pull him out of philosophizing. "I see my life as a film of which I am writing my own screenplay and I have a climax I have to reach. I want to see how many roles I have to play to get there. I am not afraid of life. I am fearless and that is the lesson I would want to propagate but that's not the kind of lesson you can teach."
 Philosophy aside, Hrithik is down to earth, continuously playing down his super stardom as merely a role assigned to him. Dressed in jeans, a well worn t-shirt and slippers a size too big for his feet, he's not at all intimidating, though he is as intense and attentive: a man who makes you comfortable when he smiles at you, not insecure. Hrithik is also a lot less athletic and slimmer than the muscular action hero we tend to associate with Krrish. But that, he explains, is because he hasn't been to the gym for five months. He is living out the role he plays in his upcoming film Guzaarish; that of a paralyzed man for which he had to put up a weak and unhealthy appearance.
The shehnai lingers on from the pavement below.
"That must be so flattering," I turn around to say to him. "Does this happen all the time?"
"All the time," he smiles, adding that he does sometimes go out on the balcony to wave at them.
"Quite like the pope," I think aloud.
"It's no fun thinking you're god," he replies. "You can fool yourself into thinking you're invincible but that's just a bubble. People tell me that I have great responsibility as a role model but I don't think like that. That would be feeding my ego and ego is a bottomless pit. Who I am does not change the way I wake up every morning. I don't pretend to be a star. It's hopeless and meaningless to think that way."
With that he lights up his second cigarette, much to my surprise, reiterating that Hrithik Roshan is not out to play stereotypes to a role model.
"I am usually a health freak but I'm living on the other extreme of the spectrum these days," he explains. "I'm smoking in my current film (Guzaarish) and I haven't worked out for five months because I have to show a fat belly. I'm playing a person who's paralyzed so since I can't work out I said to myself 'why not experience as much as you can'.
I like to live the roles I play and borrow experiences from my life. Three years ago I was told by doctors that I would lose the use of my knee. I was on crutches for three months. Doctors had given up and I was given a year to walk. I took that emotion and exaggerated it to experience what it might feel to be paralyzed."
At this point one of the many houseboys dressed in white brings in a strawberry milk shake that turns out to be a protein shake: Hrithik's lunch. He says he has no time to have a proper lunch, despite these being the Diwali holidays in Mumbai.
"I haven't been this stressed for two years," he says, "because a lot of things are happening at the same time. There's the whole marketing of Kites. It's been two years since my last release."
Hrithik isn't nervous but anxiety is prevalent because Kites will be his first film since Jodhaa Akbar two years ago. I tell him that in Pakistan we thought Jodhaa Akbar was historically flawed and he shrugs it off.
"I involve myself in the film until the first print is released. Then it's on to the next."
I also try getting him to admit that Bollywood actors have problems with the Urdu diction. They cannot pronounce their 'gh' and 'kh' properly.
"Did you see Akbar?" he questions with the raise of an eyebrow. "Gh…kh…" he delivers to perfection, then adds, "I can do anything. I'm a magician. I do my job as close to perfection as I can."
And it's this perfection that Kites and Guzaarish is banking on. I ask him whether the release of Indian films in Pakistan (thus building a huge market) has made an impact on the kind of themes picked up in Bollywood. They are getting more sub-continent friendly and focus less on the Pakistan versus India animosity.
 "I don't like to see the world in a divisive way," Hrithik over-simplifies the discussion.
"I don't like the word patriotism because it's a way of conditioning peoples' mindsets about a sense of belonging to one place and pointing a finger across the border as a threat. For example, if you go to the neighbour's house and tell the mother that I want your son to go kill the other neighbour she'll slap you and tell you to go get lost. But if you take the national flag and go tell her that her son needs to kill thousands of faceless sons in the honour of her country, she won't blink an eye and in fact will be proud. That's what patriotism does. It's divisive and it's destructive. I don't believe in it.
"So I don't look at movies in the same way, movies are made for our entire species. There is oneness in my head about who we are. I don't see people from other countries as separate.
I see myself as a part of every person I meet."
"So you'd come to Pakistan?" I persist with the knowledge that many stars have refused at the risk of appearing unpatriotic.
"Of course. Why is that even a question?" he frowns. "It's not a thought."
Would he think of stepping into co-productions with Pakistan, despite the fact that many Indo-Pak releases have not done well at the box office?
"Nothing is impossible," he replies with conviction. "It doesn't mean that if a couple of films haven't done well then they never will. Everything is divisive right now and for our ultimate survival this divisiveness needs to be eradicated. How? I'll have to become president!"
Hear, hear, I think, while undiplomatically steering the conversation to another unpleasant topic: how the media covers entertainment in India. How a kiss becomes bigger than the movie (Dhoom 2) and how on-screen chemistry between two leading actors becomes the strongest sales point for a film (rumours regarding him and Barbara Mori). By now I am prepared that he will either disagree with what I say or any question I ask Hrithik will set him off on a long drawn philosophical answer. I prove to be right when he replies…
"I have a lot of complaints about the media - and I say this without singling out the Indian press - and the way things are reported. The way we report is more business. I wouldn't be happy with my sons watching the news channels because they only talk about distress and the reporting is incorrect. It is dangerous. We are not making the world a better place. The world can be a better place if we only look at it the right way. Reporting is always about dramatization, pointing a finger. That applies to entertainment news as well. But we are evolving as human beings and this will change."
Bollywood is evolving too, I ask, but can it ever evolve into being heroine centric rather than male dominated?
"What you're saying doesn't mean anything," he reflects. "There are no heroine centric films because not many people are making good heroine centric films. That doesn't mean it cannot change. People felt the same way about super heroes in Bollywood and when we were making Krrish they laughed at us. But it was a hit. Its all about good films and bad films, not types of films"
Seeing that it's getting late I ask him to return my dictaphone which he's thoughtfully been holding close to his mouth during the interview. Hrithik Roshan is very thoughtful; I draw a mental conclusion, when he asks whether I was served anything when I arrived. Out of sheer mischief I ask him how much pressure he got to take time out for this interview.
"Not much," he smiles. "If I had it my way I would still be at my office working on the marketing of Kites and I would have had a full lunch instead of a protein shake. But you make sacrifices for the people you love. I love Farah (Khan Ali, his wife Suzanne's sister) and when she wanted me to do this I didn't even ask her why." |
Momma’s boy
Source :: Mumbai Mirror
Hrithik Roshan has planned an exclusive party tomorrow to celebrate his mother’s birthday
Hrithik Roshan has planned a grand party tomorrow to celebrate his mother, Pinky Roshan’s birthday. While the Roshans had celebrated her birthday, which was on October 22, by having a quiet dinner party at a Juhu restaurant, Hrithik has now planned to throw an extravagant party to celebrate his mother’s birthday with his friends from the film industry. The party will be held at his Juhu residence.
A source said, “The entire Roshan family along with Sanjay Khan’s family had a private dinner on October 22 to celebrate Pinky Roshan’s birthday. For the party tomorrow, Hrithik’s guest list includes Shah Rukh and Gauri Khan, Karan Johar, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Kunal Kapoor, Jeetendra, Tusshar Kapoor, Zayed Khan, Rakyesh Mehra, Ashutosh and Sunita Gowariker, Priyanka Chopra, Kangna Ranaut and many others.”
Hrithik has personally planned the menu and has paid special attention to the desserts and sushi, which his mother is extremely fond of.
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