Just a few days more and Hrithik Roshan will be more nervous than he was on the verge of his first release. He will soon be observed, judged even seen through all kinds of glasses specially created to see through him as an actor, to see that Hrithik is still the same Hrithik and even bettered himself. He will be under the cynosure of every director, writer, producer any one connected with the Hindi cinema. Writers and specially reviewers and critics have already started taking theirs stands even without seeing the films in some cases. Hrithik will be facing the test every actor! star who has the ambition to make it big. Rakesh Roshan and his team will also have to face judgement but they have all the time because Rakesh has not even finalised his subject yet. But the fact remains the one man who will face his test by fire will be Hrithik. He will be doing only his second film, Fiza which is expected to be very very different film from his first film Kaho Na Pyar Hai. At this stage we can only wish Hrithik all the best and his genius of a director who has passed judgement on hundreds of known and unknown film makers a grand success , a great future.

Sabu Rebello, Goa
How come some of our most enlightened Hindi film makers are so ignorant of the Roman Catholic community? Why is this docile community taken for granted and made fun of when ever filmmakers want to?
I have been watching film makers treating Christian characters in several films. I myself have played Christian characters according to our directors. And I feel like ill treating them for that. But there is no law against them. But I know that time will come when there will be no point of return and I will be the first person to feel sorry for such a calm community rising up in action for reasons which could be avoided by our makers.

Govind Kadam, Pune
Where is the guru Anupam Kher? Where is the Anupam of Saaransh and Karma and Mashaal and Daddy and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and so many other films you did when you first came to films?
I have very little to say because I am told very little about the good things in good cinema . I don’t think it is my mistake but I feel it is because they make films which are falling in standards and when every thing around you falls. I suppose there is not much hope It is called “moving with the times” in today’s times. Move, on they say, or move out so what do we actors do?

Mohammed Shafi
Kolhapur
Why can’t you play the role you played in Saaransh? The character you played in that film was a challenge for some of the greatest actors in the world. What you are doing now is tomfoolery most of the time which makes a fan like me almost cry. You are one of the greats in acting (even the great Dilip Kumar has agreed), then where is that great Anupam when of your fans asked again and again because they care for you?
Frankly, let me say sorry to you for disappointing you as an actor. But I am helpless. I don’t get the roles like the roles I used to get. There are no writers and directors who can tackle some of those difficult roles and moreover there is no market, no demand for such roles they say. I have to make a living. I have to run a company. I need money all the time. If you remember I had lost interest in doing foolish roles. But I promise you, that Anupam the actor is angry with Anupam the actor and will do something about it soon, some thing that will surprise and shock you?

Ram J, Mumbai
Why don’t we have actresses like Nargis, Nutan, Madhubala, Geetabali, Vyjayantimala, Waheeda Rehman and Mala Sinha?
I have tried to answer these question myself because I have been a great fan of these actresses in my youth. But it is very difficult. They don’t make such great actresses any more. They only make what are called chaalu actresses, from whom you can not expect any thing great in the category of the names you have mentioned in you list.

Peter Fernandes, Jabalpur
There was a time when you did a lot of social work. Why have you stopped?
Who told you that I had stopped doing social work? Just because I stopped going to one specific school for spastic children and that to because I was asked to stop by the principal since I would be setting a “frivolous advantage on the children” It’s not that I have stopped doing social work infact, I am doing double the social work I used to do at one time. You have to see it to believe it.

Rajan Singh, Patiala
Is Dara Singh still very active?
Daraji is seventy four. He is still as strong as ever. He can still carry his six and half feet tall wrestler son Vindu on his shoulders and even give him a swing around. Dara ji is also active both films and television. His brother in law Ratan Aulakh who is an actor and film maker himself is planning a film besides looking after Daraji date problems. Incidentally the Rustom E hind, and Rustom E Zaman is now surprising his audience by playing the comedian in serials made for television.

Ramesh Dubey, Patna
Why don’t we have good stories in our films?
It’s very simple, we lack good writers Isn’t it surprising that in a country of one billion people we hardly have a handful of good Hindi writer which is the greatest curse for Hindi films.

Lily Pereira, Mumbai
Why have they always neglecting Konkani films?
I recently had a long talk with the Goa Chief Minister, Mr. Francisco Sardinha. He has promised to built a filmcity and build other studios and offer all other facilities required to revive Konkani films. I only hope he stays the C. M. till he fulfils his promises. I have heard that Goa is the only state in India which has changed nearly seventeen chief Ministers in forty years. So you guess yourself and believe in their promises. Who knows they may one day live up to their promises.

Suman Dubey, Patna
Why is no one encouraging Bhojpuri films?
They have been trying for years. Some of the films they made are good but most of them are miserable failure. Tell me, who would like to loose money in a business which they already know will get them into all kinds of financial problems.

Swarn Kumar, Kanpur
How is PranSaheb, one of the greatest villains of all time?
Pran Sahib is not very well. He has a serious heart problem which has to be taken very great care. But the great man does not want to give up. He believes the day he stops working will be the last day of his life. He is, for the record still doing four big films and would have been wanted for more if his doctors had allowed him to.