“It Took Three Minutes To Drill A Hole In My Skull, Which Is Supposed To Be The Hardest Bone In The Body. And I Was Awake!” ERXUQHHRITHIK ROSHAN VXSUHPDF\ When you enter his Juhu duplex, you’re greeted with ‘healthy’ snacking options like brown bread chicken sandwiches, fruit juice and green tea. He takes a bite or two as well from the platter. At our appointed hour, his elder son, Hrehaan, was visibly busy choosing VFX scenes from his dad’s upcoming superhero fi lm, Krrish 3 while his doting daddy was wrapping up meetings. Sipping green tea with us, he beams, “I loved the photographs we’ve shot for Stardust. I did close-ups with Dabboo (Ratnani) after ages. I’m really kicked!” The actor is now in a happy and relaxed space. Understandably, Hrithik Roshan was in no mood to talk about the ‘marriage’ gossip that’s making rounds, but he ensured his chat with us was free-wheeling and as entertaining as his fi lms. Krrish 3, his family, the news-making brain surgery and future projects, one of which is with, ahem, Kareena Kapoor Khan…He had a lot to say!

PHOTOGRAPHS: DABBOO RATNANI; MAKE-UP: VIJAY PALANDE; HAIR: HAKIM’S AALIM; STYLING: AKSHAY TYAGI

SUNIL SHETTY BACK IN ACTION Sunil Shetty, who has seen the good and the “Everyone bad professionally and personally, has never says I’m a looked back at either. With no regrets and ample lessons learnt, he has a lot to look forward to. brilliant PR. His daughter Athiya is gearing up to make her foray in fi lms with a Salman Khan Productions I’ve just been fi lm. Son Ahan is also harbouring showbiz nice to people. dreams. Here’s what their father had to say...

Being nice is Your daughter Athiya is making her foray in fi lms. What would you advice her as a father and as an actor? She needs to work hard. Nothing is impossible to achieve. You don’t have what I was to jump or cross lines to be able to achieve success. You need to hone your talent. I’ve told her to see Neetu Singh and Kajol, and their journeys brought up as artistes. They did everything within their limits and made a superb with.” career. There’s no shortcut to success. And she’s clear about that. Have you set any guidelines or limitations for her? All her life she’s lived with her parents and grandparents. Guidelines are something she follows on her own. There’s nothing I want to infl uence her with. She has to go with an open mind. But she knows the background we come from. She has Reshma Shetty who’s handling her work. She’s debuting in a Salman Khan Production. She has great people around her. The fi lm is the remake of Hero. PAOLI DAM IN SEARCH OF SUBSTANCE “Acting is not child’s play but it had called me and offered me , I contemplated being is the only thing that I can do.” a part of cinema. So acting has happened to me by chance. It was never a dream. Then I found a place in Mumbai and fi nally shifted here and In today’s day and age, it won’t be wrong to say that an started going through the scripts which actress is truly accepted in when she is offered were being offered to me. This city has an item number in an out-and-out commercial potboiler. taught me how to be independent and From the B-town beauties, Katrina Kaif and Kareena Kapoor interactive on a daily basis. I owe a lot Khan to the critically acclaimed Vidya Balan and Priyanka to Mumbai. So it took me some time Chopra – we’ve seen almost all our favourite heroines to settle down here and pick the right scorching up the screen with their sizzling moves. The latest project. Plus, shooting and all was time one to join the bandwagon of the much in demand item consuming too,” she shares. girls is none other than the Vikram Bhatt fi nd, Paoli Dam. Though her last release Ankur After making an impressive debut in Hate Story, the Bong Arora Murder Case failed to weave beauty now wishes to take the industry by storm through magic at the box-offi ce, the Bengali the interesting projects which are currently in her kitty. In beauty garnered appreciation for a freewheeling chat with Stardust, the dusky damsel talks her impressive act. And she wasn’t about her upcoming fi lms and much more. deterred by the lukewarm response but found satisfaction in the words of ery few people have the heartbreaker. Naturally, the girl was praise that she received. “As an actor, gumption to commence their showered with a lot of interesting when you decide to do a movie, you Vcareer with an exceptionally offers post that. So what took her already know whether it will make bold step. Paoli Dam is one of those so long before she made her second magic or not. Ankur Arora… is a fi lm spirited ones. The bundle of talent outing? “Since I hail from , with a social message. I knew I wanted made waves with her debut fi lm Hate initially, I had to do a lot of to-and-fro to do it the moment I was narrated Story and won everyone’s hearts from Kolkata to Mumbai and back as the script. I was offered a fantastic with her realistic performance. She I also had a lot of Bengali movies in powerful role. It was something that effortlessly played the challenging my hand. Frankly, I did not have it in I had never done before. K.K. Menon, role of a young woman who uses her me to come to Mumbai and try to fi nd Tisca Chopra and Arjun Mathur were sensuality to get revenge from her a place in Bollywood. It’s only when my co-stars in the fi lm. All of them are