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...Bachchan's second decision was to start breaking a few Bollywood molds. With the industry leaning towards buff young tyros like Hrithik Roshan and Shah Rukh Khan for its male leads, Bachchan was an unlikely choice to play conventional romantic roles. Yet for a new generation of filmmakers keen to break new ground but in need of a star to pull in funding, he was the perfect choice. Bachchan was only too happy to find work. And so he accepted a series of roles in some of the most experimental films Bollywood has ever produced. There was 2003's Boom...
...Roshan Hariharan
...Lakshya (which roughly translates as "aim" or "focus") follows an urban slacker (Hrithik Roshan) who joins the Indian army on a whim and winds up finding heroic purpose fighting Pakistani troops who crossed into Indian-controlled Kashmir in 1999. The tragic context of a conflict that has cost up to 70,000 lives offers ample opportunity for that staple of Bollywood film: copious melodrama. Akhtar isn't so radical as to depart from such essential ingredients of the genre: song and dance, boy meets girl, and plenty of tears are all there. But everything is deftly updated. In the first...
...movie looks different, too. Popp brilliantly captures the starkness of Ladakh, the endless dustbowl valleys and vast plains of worthless desert that form Kashmir's unforgiving battlegrounds. As for the performances, Akhtar asked for, and got, very un-Bollywood and uniformly excellent understatement. Roshan, with his self-deprecating humor and subtle emotional depth, sets a new standard for the industry. "I went round to [Akhtar's] house to talk about the character just before we started shooting," says Roshan. "The meeting lasted maybe two minutes. Farhan said, 'I want you to be you. Nothing more, nothing less.' It's very...
...director Mukesh Duggal was shot and killed in Bombay and producer Manmohan Shetty barely survived a murder attempt. In 2000, director Rakesh Roshan (Kaho Naa...Pyaar Hai), whose son Hrithik is the current heartthrob, survived a murder attempt after refusing to procure Hrithik's services for a Mob-backed film. Last year the onslaught started. Gangsters killed the secretary of Manisha Koirala, a top actress and niece of the former prime minister of Nepal. Hrithik, Govinda, veteran actor Amrish Puri and top director Karan Johar (Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham) were assigned armed police protection after receiving death threats. And earlier...