Hyperactive Hrithik
Hrithik Roshan, who spent the past week in Dubai, has been especially active on social media lately. First, news broke that he’s been signed by a Hollywood artist management agency to represent him in the West. Next, he was spotted taking a stroll on his hotel lawns wearing a lungi paired with a T-shirt. The actor joked on Instagram that his fashion inspiration was courtesy ‘I guess @RanveerOfficial’, tagging the famously fashion-forward Ranveer Singh.
The same day, which also happened to be the birthday of his War co-star Tiger Shroff, Hrithik also took to Instagram to wish Tiger and tell him that “working with you and knowing you has been extraordinary”. The actors shared a winning chemistry in their blockbuster film, which went on to make more than Rs 300 crore and was declared the biggest Bollywood hit of 2019.
There is no clarity yet on whether Hrithik will end up making the next Krrish installment as previously announced. He has said he is in search of another slick action film after War. He is no longer doing Farah Khan’s remake of Satte Pe Satta after reportedly keeping the makers in limbo for seven months. There is some talk that Yash Raj Films will announce a new project with him in April when they reveal their big slate with A-listers as part of their 50th year celebrations.
Superhero Fatigue
With Sooryavanshi Rohit Shetty has come closest to creating a Marvel-like interlocking cinematic universe featuring popular cop characters that previously appeared in their own standalone films: namely, Singham and Simmba. With Akshay Kumar’s Inspector Sooryavanshi (who first appeared very briefly in Simmba) now thrown into the mix, Shetty may have a desi Avengers in hand.
Shetty, however, is aware of that thing called ‘superhero fatigue’. So after Sooryavanshi, which will focus on Akshay’s character while bringing back Ajay Devgn’s Bajirao Singham and Ranveer Singh’s Sangram Bhalerao in its third act, Shetty will give the cop franchise a break. He is expected to go into Golmaal 5 next, which will begin filming right after Sooryavanshi’s release. After that it could be the third Singham film, unless he finds something else that excites him outside this universe. The idea, he has told his team, is to not “overwork” the franchise in the fear of tiring out the fans.
He has also been thinking about adding more characters to the universe—after all, why stop at three?—but “not immediately”. The third Singham film could have room to introduce a fourth character, but these are conversations that have just been floated with the writers; no concrete plans have been made yet.
- Rajeev Masand
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