BALIKA PRESENTS HRITHIK ROSHAN'S DEADLY HOMEPAGE


So Hithik's arrived. And how !The box office reports are here. Kaho Naa..Pyaar Hai is the only sparkler this year amidst the swirling sea of mediocrity.And what does the film boast of ?
Hrithik. Hrithik. Hrithik.
Consider this. A theatre in Delhi was running Hey!Ram in its regular shows. During the interval, it chose to run the trailer of Kaho Naa.. Pyaar Hai. "Suddenly the hall - hitherto silent- was resounding with oohs and aaahs, " says Aditya Khanna, exibitor. " I was about to rush in and see if there was something amiss, when I was told : Don't worry ! it's Hrithik," he adds.
Hrithik, with the light eyes, long face, bulging biceps, sinuous dance, lithe figure and lost world charm. Yup ! Let's get this straight. What's Hrithik got which the rest of the bratpack badshahs don't have ? "There is this complete and absolute freshness about him which hasn't been seen for long."says Tanuja Chandra,filmmaker.Chandra, who has cast him against Ashwariya Rai in her next film- an adult love story - describes him as an actor " who looks honest, who feels honest. Hence real. There is a genuine quality about him which he is able to project on screen too. He looks like somebody you can trust and have faith in - that's his screen persona too," explains Tanuja.
Small wonder then, he has them all- kids,teeny-boopers,big brothers, badi didis, aunts, uncles, middle aged matriarchs - roting for him in surrounding cynicism. For, somewhere in his cute, clean clime. Aquality which Amir Khan embodies in his screen personae too. But Aamir and Shahrukh lack the brawn which Hrithik flaunts, enabling him to blend the hungry, mean ,hunk look with the boy- next- door charisma.Salman's cute and brawny too, and so can he dance. But Hrithik dances like a dream and Salman's beefcake brawn is begnning to stale.And Sharukh's too edgy at any point in the film,"as Khanna elucidates.
Nevertheless, it's too early for comparisons right now. "Sharukh ,Salman ,and Amir have proved themselves again and again Hrithik should prove himself at least once more."say Khanna, while conceding he's got at least one 'funda' right. He's selected right directors : Subhash Ghai ,RajeevRai, Vidhu Vinod Chopra. thereby assuring himself " an insurance policy against bad films."
For Chandra Hrithik is the new Entertainer with a bright future. Specially since there are huge amounts of unexplored talent lying hidden in him. All he needs is a good sculptor who could keep chipping into him to create a piece of art."

HRITHIK MAKES HEARTS GO..BOOM BOOM.....SHS SH SH

All their pocket money is spent. Not on popcorn or potato chips, but on posters of bollywood's latest heartthrob Hrithik Roshan. At school, the first period in the morning is spent in quietly exchanging pictures with friends. "I got nine postcards of Hrithik today. And I knew I would get them as I had paid for the best collection, " says 12 years- old Bhavana. Gaudy-colored printed postcards, costing a rupee each, apparently mean a fortune to hundreds of school going kids in the city. Many enterprising ones have even begun 'investing', that is buying and selling photographs of their screen-idol, which are diligently cut out from newspapers and magazines. While the large glossy photographs appearing in film magazines appear to be selling for as high as Rs 10 each, the small black and white ones printed in the vernacular press cost a cheap 50 paise.
"Even the class, monitor is trapped, "says a jubilant Amit, while explaining how he got the monitor to erase his name, written on the blackboard for talking in class, in exchange for "two good photos" of Hrithik Roshan. Last week, sensing the tremors in his school, an alert principal directed his staff to 'raid' the school bags of the student."piles of photographs, maybe in kilos, were collected and then set on fire," lament 14years olds Swati and Vishal, even as Deepak, who was absent on the day of the 'raid', triumphantly announces how his 'solid' collection of 48 pictures was saved!

And if one is naïve enough to think that this craze has afflicted only teenagers, Priyanka has course books. "He brings a smile to my face," she justifies, just like Kedar, who reportedly brought a huge portrait of his idol just before his examination began and declared to the supervisor, " Don't move this please, he is our inspiration!"

The Hrithik craze is no kidstuff. Twenty - year - old Suleiman, was normally refuses to wear his reading glasses, has now changed his mind. Says his mother, "that's only if we buy him frames like the one Hrithik wears." When queried, opticians in the city confirm that in past few weeks, several youngsters have asked for 'Hrithik' frames fitted with zero number glasses.

Glad that their kids are stress -free, and are not sinking into examination blues due to this major'distraction', several parents believe that the Hrithik fever will fade as soon as school break up for the summer vacations. But will it?