Wedding photo of Suzanne and Hrithik Roshan

The report, which is most likely to be just one big fat, juicy rumor, says that Suzanne Roshan walked out on Hrithik Roshan and moved back into her parent’s house, with her two kids.

Reports say that one of the most devoted couples in the Hindi film industry has broken up because of Hrithik Roshan’s alleged affair with Barbara Mori.

The rumors of the Hrithik Roshan-Barbara Mori affair have been doing the rounds ever since the two have been shooting for Kites, Hrithik’s next movie. Kites, directed by Anurag Basu (Life in a Metro, Murder), will be released in two languages, Hindi and English.

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Hrithik and the rest of the Roshan family are saying that there is no question of a split. They say that Suzanne Roshan has moved out of the house because a floor of the house is being renovated.

Hrithik Roshan’s sister, Sunaina Roshan, has been quoted as saying that Hrithik and Suzanne have no problems. She said that Suzanne had to move to her parent’s place because the ceiling of their house was being treated for termites.

Hrithik Roshan, who returned from South Africa, on April 6, 2009, is said to have gone straight to meet Suzanne and the kids, at her parent’s place, which truth to tell is very normal behavior. If you have been away for a bit, why wouldn’t you want to meet your wife and kids right away?

When reporters caught up with Hrithik, he said that he was at that very moment picnicking with Suzanne Roshan and the kids.

Hrithik and Suzanne Roshan, are said to have one of the most stable and loving relationships in the industry. It has always been obvious that they are very much in love with each other, so, I for one, will take the rumor with a big pinch of salt.

Kites, which will be released on October 16, 2009, has been produced by Rakesh Roshan, Hrithik Roshan’s father.

Hrithik is said to play a Salsa teacher in the movie who falls in love with a Spanish girl, he can’t communicate with, because he speaks no Spanish and she speaks nothing but Spanish.

Kangana Ranaut plays a Salsa student hopelessly in love with Hrithik.

Photo: Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Jodhaa Akbar

No details were available about the movie so far, though Sanjay Leela Bhansali had announced the movie quite a long time back.

Now we know something more about the movie. Its name.

And yes, another bit of detail that is being bandied about: Resul Pookutty will do the sound mixing.

I think one will have to wait for another few months to be handed another teeny-weeny detail about Guzarish, like, maybe, the name of one other member of the cast, apart from Hrithik and Aishwarya.

We live in hope.

Whatever the story line of Guzarish be, the movie should be decent. One, because Sanjay Leela Bhansali is a pretty good director and, two, the on-screen chemistry between Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai is pure dynamite.

I can’t think of any other screen couple in recent Hindi film history that has set the screen afire in the way these two do. The only names that comes to mind are Dilip Kumar and Madhubala. They just had to look at each other to make the air sizzle.

Apparently, Guzarish is in pre-production and will be released in 2010.

Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan were last seen in Ashutosh Gowariker’s epic movie Jodhaa Akbar. The movie was more of a historical romance, with Hrithik playing Mughal emperor Akbar and Aishwarya his Hindu wife, Jodhaa.

The movie was a blockbuster, despite a slow start, and swept all the main awards at nearly all award functions, in 2008.

It won the Best Film, Best Actor, and Best Director award at both the Filmfare and Star Screen awards.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is also working on Chenab Gandhi, starring Amitabh Bachchan, John Abraham and Vidya Balan. The movie chronicles the life and struggles of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, also known as Frontier Gandhi.

Chenab Gandhi will go into production in May 2009.

Photo: Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai in Jodhaa Akbar

Zayed Khan will play Lakshman and Amitabh Bachchan will play Dashrath.

The Legend of Rama will be produced and directed by Sanjay Khan, who is Hrithik Roshan’s father-in-law and Zayed Khan’s father.

The Legend of Rama will be written by Sanjay Khan along with Farrukh Dhondy.

Farrukh Dhondy has been quoted as saying that The Legend of Rama will be a modernized version of the Ramayana, and that it will be the Ramayana in The Lord Of The Rings genre. He also added that the screenplay has the motion, motivation and movement of a Shakespearean play.

I don’t know if you have understand what that means, because I certainly haven’t.

Knowing Sanjay Khan’s penchant for laborious work (Abdullah, The Sword of Tipu Sultan TV series), I expect The Legend of Rama to be a pedestrian retelling of the story, that will trundle along in a beleaguered manner. The characters will be flat and unidimensional. Rama will be a goody-two-shoes, Lakshman even more so, and Sita’s bharatiya nari cloying martyrdom will make you gag.

Which is sad on two counts. One, that it will not explore the dark side of Rama, his doubts and insecurity; ditto for Lakshman. It will not probe Sita’s strength of mind.

Two, The Legend of Rama will be a waste of fine actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Hrithik Roshan, as also the chemistry between Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai as seen in Jodha Akbar and before that, Dhoom 2.

And what is with Zayed Khan playing Lakshman, or variations of Lakshman, in every second movie? In Main Hoon Na, his character is based on the Lakshmanesque loyal younger brother thing. He is even called Lakshman in the movie, for God’s sake. Then again, he plays the youngest brother in Yuvraaj, a story of three brothers.

Casting hasn’t been announced for Ravan’s character though. I won’t waste your time asking you who do you think should be cast as Ravan. I am sure they will predictably cast Boman Irani as Ravan, who will ham his way through the movie.

I wish someone would take the Mahabharata and the Ramayan and do something good with it. If nothing else, they could pick up Ashok Banker’s Ramayan. At least the characters have depth and the sci-fi take is very interesting.