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METRO
FEATURE
The
House of Roshan
 Everyone
wants to be Bollywood's first family. If it's not the Kapoors, it's the
other Kapoors (Boney, Anil and clan) or the Khans (Salman and Bros; Aamir
and Co). The latest contenders are the Roshans. Last week, at a Calcutta
event unimaginatively entitled "The Roshan Show", the House
celebrated its 50 years in filmdom. "My father (music director Roshan)
joined the industry in 1950, my brother and I came in 1970, and in 2000,
we gave you Hrithik," pronounced proud papa Rakesh, whose best production
till date is clearly his son. The intro was necessary; many of the 20-somethings
in the audience didn't know about the patriarch. "You mean, Hrithik's
grandfather was in films too?" asked a 23-year-old. "Was he
like Hrithik?"
Well, for
one thing Roshan seniormost never had a "record" 1.3 lakh spectators
at his debut show! Calcutta's Salt Lake stadium was bursting with Hrithikmania,
and fans patiently sat out the first hour of music from Rajesh Roshan's
repertoire and (ouch!) Rakesh Roshan's film clips. Then they started clamouring
for the "real star of the evening". When he finally made his
entry with the Fiza "tandav", amid glitter bombs and pyrotechnics,
the stadium exploded. A quick change, and Hrithik launched into dances
from Mission Kashmir and Kaho Naa ... Pyaar Hai.
For a first
show, though, Hrithik hit all the right notes with Calcuttans. Culinary
preferences dictated the venue for the concert, he said, because "my
grandmother, whom I call Dida, is Bengali, and I grew up having maccher
jhol and chorchori". Since Hrithik's career-best of seven dances
can't sustain a two-hour glitz, the Roshans roped in singers Udit Narayan,
Alka Yagnik, newcomer Nayan Rathore and "Bangla boy" Babul Supriyo,
along with eye-candy Namrata Shirodkar and Amisha Patel. But all of them
were collectively upstaged by a three-film wonder. "If that's what
he does to family, imagine what his competition is up against," said
a fan. Yup, just imagine.
-Labonita
Ghosh
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