ROHIT PUROHIT APPRECIATION THREAD - Page 12

Originally posted by: inlieu

@bold🤣

Hey, the intent is not to become his PR person or manager, but just to create awareness among the general public. Looks like more people know of him than I thought, even in the US!

Originally posted by: sashashyam

I don't want to be the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, but before all of you go to town trying to get Christopher McQuarrie to cast Rohit as his Alexander the Great, a few things need to be considered.

1) I read that article in Flickering Myth. ( It would be helpful if such links were live). It is over a year old, and McQuarrie's response to that request on Twitter is vague, to say the least. Plus the writer sounded quite sceptical about there being a market for a new sword and sandals film.

I am not as keen a surfer of Hollywood news as you youngsters are, but I would surely have heard if a new Alexander the Great film was in the works. More to the point, so would you.

2) Though he directed the last two Mission Impossible films, Christopher McQuarrie is primarily a script writer. And the Mission Impossible films, with Tom Cruise and his ego to cater to, are not a touchstone of his ability to pull off a successful Alexander the Great film. Why, Oliver Stone, whose 2004 Alexander was such a failure, is a far more famous and highly rated director than McQuarrie.

3) Any new Alexander the Great film would be enormously expensive. If at all such a production is actually taken up, the cast, and above all the lead role of Alexander, will not be decided by the director, but by the chaps who put up the money

, ie the producers. And they will want a lead whose name will help sell the film. It would be exceedingly difficult to get an unknown Indian actor even considered for the role, not to speak of being accepted.

The last time an unknown got such a lead role was Peter O'Toole in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, and he was white. Rohit looks like a very handsome westerner, and would be perfect as Alexander, but one cannot get past the fact that he is Indian, and his name will not help sell the film. Why, even for Gandhi, they would not take Naseeruddin Shah, but opted for a Krishan Bhanji whose screen name, Ben Kingsley, sounded.satisfactorily western!

I too would very much want Rohit to land such a spectacular role, not only for himself but to show SidT where he gets off, but facts are facts.

4) Finally, if and when such a film materialises, the person who would have to sell Rohit to the producers would be the casting director. And letting fan clubs loose on him or her would be disastrous. How would you control what they will do?

So, pending the announcement of such a new Alexander film, concentrating on Turkish TV seems to me to be a more practical and practicable proposition.

Go for it, and if a Hollywood film on Alexander is fated for Rohit, it will come to him . Time enough to campaign for that when it materializes.

Of course he would have to be ready to do explicit scenes, both with Hephaestion and Roxanne, and to cope with the very ugly undertone that was already there in the Stone film, about Olympias' love for her son. Which was most likely why they cast Angelina Jolie for that role.Hollywood these days is not for the faint of heart.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: Vicariously

I didn't want to talk about Rajat Tokas as it's Rohit's AT but since Aunty and Inlieu, both of you are commenting on the recent decline of his career I would like to say few words too. It's a shame ! Such a shame that gem of actors like Rajat and Rohit aren't given the recognition and acknowledgement they are deserving of by the own industry they serve and belong to ! If the Indian TV industry would have given them proper acknowledgement according to the quality of their performances, none of us would have felt the necessity to nosey around or opt them anywhere out of the Industry. I still can't bring myself to understand how a brilliant actor like Rajat Tokas who aced Akbar's role and gave to the character, his face, nature and temperament ended up as katputli in Ekta's hands, playing tiny tiny roles around, rotting his own talent, in ludicrous shows like Naagin ?

Hopefully Rohit never experience anything close to it ! Rohit had his own struggle days as well but what's admirable is that he still did his best with what he was given. Even when he featured in shows only as side and supporting roles with no big consequence on the actual track or storyline, he still manages to affirm himself and shine somehow through the limited screentime. He's done variety of roles where quite of them are him portraying a despicable and dark character, as exaggeratingly miserable as villains are usually portrayed in Indian daily soaps but he still has a genuine dignity that surrounds and elevates him, which makes it fail to turn him into something totally disgraceful and detestable. Aunty you should definitely watch Rohit playing Girish Sinha, a gangster with his delightful accent 😆 It's available on YouTube : Encounter, Sinha Family Gang. And the actress who plays his mother in it is absolutely terrific and delectable at the same time 😆 Poor boy is frequently showered with couple of hot shot tamachas by the matron when she senses him being fearful 😆 Whenever his character is put in a weak and defeated state, I usually watch it with only one eye opened but here when he was receiving those recurrent blows, it was quite enjoyable to watch 🤣 At that point of his career, no one would have been able to perceive or predict that only 3-4 years later, the same Rohit Purohit would be nailing a huge role like Alexander 😃

Originally posted by: inlieu

How awesome does he look in blue?

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