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| Abhijeet Sawant: K Jo's on the Line | ||||
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| I'VE heard that Karan Johar is interested,'' says Abhijeet Sawant, on the sets of C.I.D. It's 4 pm and the 24-year-old singer is making his nth guest appearance on a prime time television show. His designers have been instructed to keep Shah Rukh Khan in mind when they style his wardrobe. At the studio in suburban Mumbai, Sawant has few speaking lines and is rather wooden when the lights come on, but that's something everyone is willing to overlook. When they break after two hours, Sawant wants chai and Glucose biscuits. ''He doesn't have any hang-ups,'' says Shivaji Satam, ACP Pradyuman in the crime serial, who was one of 55 million voters who helped Sawant snag the Indian Idol title in March. These days Sawant hops from TV appearances (Jassi, C.I.D and Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai) to dance rehearsals and live shows (he travels 12 days a month). ''Acche paise mil rahen hain,'' says the singer, who charges between Rs 1 lakh to 1.5 lakh per show. He says he's already received three Bollywood offers, the latest being a comic role alongside Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh's son Riteish. ''It's a big production,'' he adds, letting each word roll off his tongue slowly. HIS family complains that Sawant doesn't spend any time at home. ''He used to hover around me all the time or play cricket right here,'' says mother Manisha, who misses feeding him kheema and Konkan fish curry. It's one of those rare days when Sawant is in town (still in bed because of another late night), at his Shahunagar residence in Mahim. Here, the buildings rest cheek by jowl, and the lanes turn neatly at right angles. There's a splash of blue and orange amidst all that grey—a six-foot poster of the man staring down from his second floor balcony.
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