"I have a right to get married"
He's the biggest furor whipped up this decade. Seems unlikely even for
him to equal this impact again. But what Hrithik Roshan can do is use
his commanding position to grow as an actor. He has the promise and
the potential and popularity too.
Don't you think the Pepsi-Shah Rukh controversy was fanned beyond
relevance?
Hrithik : First of all, I don't think it had anything to do with the Khans.
Pepsi tried to take a dig
at me because I preferred Coke. And Shah Rukh is an actor, he's done his
job, I don't hold
anything against him. In fact, when he saw the ad himself, he was quite
shocked. He asked
them to tone down the portions that made fun of me. It was Pepsi's doing
not Shah Rukh's. All
I know is that he's a friend of mine. He's a good guy and a well wisher.
Would you agree to a similar concept if Coke wanted you to do it?
Hrithik :I would definitely like to see the storyboard first, and make
sure that it is not degrading
anyone. Frankly, the Pepsi ad has not affected me. Now that I see it, I
think it is really not all
that bad.
How do you react to this hysteria, this huge craze generated by you?
Hrithik :Craze comes from the word crazy and it just means that. It makes
no
sense. I am not complaining, I am not saying anything. I am not that good.
In their craze, people don't see the truth. All they see is what they want
to
see. Right now they only see the good, and I am not buying any of this
because I know it is not the truth. Let more of my films release, and then
we'll see if the craze lasts.
But you are considered the promising one?
Hrithik :Exactly. Promising is the appropriate word which I have to keep
up to. I have to try
and go higher than what I have done. I hope and pray that I do a better
job than what I did
in my first film.
What does your super success do to you?
Hrithik :It has made me tired. All I am craving is for a little peace.
Are you playing a negative role in Mission Kashmir?
Hrithik :Nothing negative. It's a role of a good boy who goes wrong. He
gets into the hands of
the wrong people and does wrong things. It's like he has been through such
hell as a child
that there's a volcano of emotions within him, which comes out in the wrong
way. He hurts a
lot of people. But when he realises that he's at fault, he gives up his
life in redemption.
You are playing Karisma's brother in Fiza, don't you think that will effect
your pairing as
romantic star?
Hrithik :I don't think so. It is just that how convincing you can be in
your characterisation. If in
the next film we are cast romantically opposite each other and if we play
it convincingly
enough, then it should not be a problem. It simply depends on how convincing
you are as an
actor.
But these two films are totally against your public image?
Hrithik :Image is what you create. Once people come to the theatres, it
is your job to break
the previous image and give them a new one, that's what movies are all
about. I played a double role in my first film, one of a nice middle class
boy
and the other a stud. Keeping this in mind, people are going to the theatres
thinking Hrithik Roshan as this nice clean dancer and what they are going
to
get is a militant who is rough, uncultured, because I play just that in
Mission
Kashmir. So it is all about selling another dream to them. I can't just
keep
doing the same kind of roles. Why not give them something different and
new
every time. And be convincing in it.
Did you write some of your scenes in Mission Kashmir?
Hrithik :No, it's not that I wrote the scenes, but in every scene there
are some of my ideas
and suggestions, which have been incorporated in the film. And every actor
does that. These
suggestions are what make a scene happen, after all it has to be a part
of the person who is
enacting the character.
Are you tying the knot by the end of this year?
Hrithik :The world will know when I am ready. That is something I am not
going to hide. I have
never hidden it, and never will.
Won't marriage affect your image?
Hrithik :I don't believe in images. I don't believe in anything but doing
your job. I have a right
to my own life. I have a right to get married. I don't think it will have
an effect on my public
image at all.