Krrish diary: Special make-up for Hrithik Roshan 
By IndiaFM News Bureau, October 19, 2005 - 04:53 IST
Well that's the secrecy under which the movie is being shot in Singapore away from the media hype so that everything about the movie is under wraps and expectedly comes in as a pleasant surprise to the audiences when it hits the screens in June 2006.
But after much research and tracking of the Krrish shootings, I finally came to know the location they are going to shoot - Robinson Road. It was raining heavily when I left from NTU to meet Indian superstar Hrithik Roshan and ex-Miss World Priyanka Chopra.
The whole road was blocked by Singapore Police, their vans and motorbikes and a big truck on the other side. Amazing to see the otherwise crowded road so deserted. It was raining and they had paused the shooting. The sequence they were planning to shoot was of a kid jumping from a building and our superman Hrithik Roshan saving him. They had already shot some parts of it in the morning when it was sunny.
Hrithik was sitting inside an air conditioned van when we saw him. We tried talking to some crew members to get us an interview from Hrithik; who redirected us to the head of crew Kamal. Kamal didn't allow us to meet Hrithik as they didn't want to disclose his special make-up. He was quite angry by a popular media channel who according to him after being rejected an interview with Hrithik, took a photo of 'Krrish shooting' from the top of a building.
Rakesh Roshan was sitting in front of MPH, Robinson Road with his other friends. Though he didn't say anything, while just nodding to our 'hi's; he initially seemed a bit cold. We requested him to allow us to take a photo and he quite generously offered us a chair to sit and click.
At around 4:30 pm the film crew started packing up since they had lost their hopes that the rain would stop. Some fans on the set started jumping with joy when Hrithik Roshan personally came down and signed autographs for them. "He was so near you could just take out your mobile and click his photo", exclaimed an overjoyed fan. But anyway that didn't happen. We tried to convince our crew friends to allow us take a photo as he must have removed his makeup by now, but, by then Hrithik had already left on this white van. Also, the crew was discouraged by seeing the rain. It amounted to a loss of $25000.
Where they are shooting next is a big issue no one knows about. "Director saab shaam ko hi batatey hain ke agle din ki shooting kahaan hone wali hai. Pehle se kisi ko maloom nahi rehta", says a crew member. (The director tells us about the next day's shooting location only one day in advance in the evening. No one knows about it beforehand).
But, as the day was packing we came to know that the next day's shooting will be held in National Library again on Monday. And back on Robinson Road next Weekend.
Priyanka is back in Mumbai enjoying her holidays. Apparently, she doesn't have any more scenes to be shot in Singapore.
(Manish Rai Jain lives in Singapore and his blog is available at http://tuxmann.blogspot.com/
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