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Gone with the wind
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SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY chats with one-film-wonder Rahul Roy, now finding succour on the small screen.
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Photo: R.V. Moorthy.
RAHUL ROY: `Aashiqui' with Bollywood, not quite.
WHEN RAHUL Roy entered Bollywood, he was indeed an unconventional face as a hero. So, many doubted the success of Mahesh Bhatt's love story Ashiqui.
To make it worse, it had yet another unusual face, Anu Aggarwal to pair Rahul. But the flick outwitted `the smart talk' of the sceptics. It became a super hit. Even over a decade after its release, its music still sells well.
But this success story scripted yet another story. A tad unfortunate one. That both Rahul and Anu, despite the film, missed the bus to the high road of Bollywood.
It took them just a few more flicks to be stamped as `oh, just one-film-wonders.'
Years after the success of Aashiqui and a few insignificant films and TV serials after, Rahul looks calm and quite in control of himself in New Delhi the other day.
"I have moved on from the days of Aashiqui. It was heaven, now I have learnt to live on earth," says Rahul. Age has bestowed on him a few inches of flab, a few age lines, but he has kept intact his famous long hair with middle parting (remember the Rahul Roy hair style?) and that innocent and yet not-so-indigestible half smirk.
"Let-downs leave you tough as old boots," he adds to his present image.
As villain too
After Aashiqui, he came in yet another Bhatt movie, Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayi opposite Pooja Bhatt.
But it only managed to become a musically hit flick. And that, in all practical ways, sealed the fate of Rahul on silver screen.
"I did a few more films after that. I am still doing three movies," he refuses to count himself as out of the race though. Naming them, he talks of Mashuka opposite Himani Shivpuri, Dushman and Rafta Rafta. And then, he has a couple of small screen roles too to add to the count. "But I am at present seen on Ehsaas... Kahani Ek Ghar Ki on DD1," he says. In this Unitech IPTV production, Rahul features in a villainous role, a genre that he tried to seriously get into with films like Gumraah and Junoon after his failure as a hero.
"After being a success as an unconventional hero with Aashiqui, I gradually had to fall down to the conventional bracket of Bollywood. That, if I have long hair, a different face, an unusual smile, an unconventional voice, I should be a villain and not otherwise," smiles Rahul, may be in resignation. Nonetheless, it is hard to find people these days who know how to grin and bear life after success.
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