A movie nonetheless of Hrithik Roshan

New documentary collection The Romantics, at the moment trending, is greater than merely a showcase of movie historical past – it is exceptional for revealing that filmmaker Aditya Chopra just isn’t, as Abhishek Bachchan as soon as quipped, a “rumour.” Not solely does the Yash Raj Films boss exist, he speaks on digicam and is spoken about; seems, he wasn’t all the time the camera-shy recluse that he’s now. Among the various issues we learnt from The Romantics was this – the younger Aditya Chopra was the “team leader” of a gaggle of star children that included Abhishek Bachchan and Karan Johar, and that he was identified, amongst different issues, for profitable dance competitions at birthday events.

Unbelievable as this may appear, digest this – the individual Aditya Chopra repeatedly defeated in these dance competitions was… drum roll… Hrithik Roshan, arguably the smoothest operator on any given dance ground.  

In The Romantics, Karan Johar recollects attending these birthday events and never having fun with them very a lot. “I would go once a year to his birthday party and there were a group of kids, they were all fans of Adi. He was their team leader and they would all speak a certain kind of Hindi film language that I was pretending to not like. So I would go home and tell my mom that I’m not going back, they are too filmy for me.”

Abhishek Bachchan was on the events as nicely. “So obviously when we had birthday parties there was the inevitable dance competition. The dance competition was the domain of two people, two rivals, two opposite sides of style,” he says in The Romantics.

“Adi won every dance competition, year after year. And who was number two to him? Hrithik Roshan,” Karan Johar says.

Abhishek continues: “So the minute they walked into the party they would be looking at each other with that stare, it was almost like a Western showdown.”

Hrithik Roshan seems to be again on the Aditya Chopra-who-was. “It’s amazing, I don’t know what happened. He was supposed to be the one who grows up and does those moves. I really wish you can cut this with a video of one of his dances because they were pretty amazing. Sometimes it didn’t even look much like dancing but it was very amazing to watch. He had some kind of self-confidence that came from somewhere inside,” he says in The Romantics.

The Romantics, directed by Smriti Mundhra, is streaming on Netflix.