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Bollywood has a vacancy. It’s looking for its new heartthrob. The lover-boy charmer who can beat up ten toughs and make the ladies swoon. We check out the newbies who might make the grade

Scene 1: Two strapping young lads with their muscles and aviators on show are sweltering in the Mumbai heat. The poolside of JW Marriott in the background is screaming for a dip but they are busy at work. They pose and glare, gaze and smile for our shutterbug. Until one of them exclaims, “Chal yaar, shirt utaar aur pool mein jump maar. That’ll make a nice photo. We’ll stand out.”
Scene II: Another star discovery, whose big-budget extravaganza is keenly awaited, dithers about a photo-shoot since his face has broken out into rashes after a sunstroke. You see, he doesn’t want to pose until his million-dollar face is all ok.
Cut Next To: In yet another office, the publicity campaign of a superstar’s nephew is being planned. His promo has hit the circuit but he has strict instructions from his marketing-savvy uncle to avoid public glare. His think-tank is leaving nothing to chance. They know what to reveal, when to reveal and how much to reveal. Even getting a photo of the star nephew for this story was an arduous task.

Forget the war of the superstars. This summer, all eyes will be on the new kids on the block. Don’t fret if their names don’t register as yet. A battery of seasoned image consultants, over-efficient PRs and anxious directors/producers is in an overdrive to make sure you get to know them. After all the stakes are pretty high. It’s about India getting a new heartthrob.
Sample the choice. If veteran producer-director Harry Baweja has lined up India’s first futuristic love story for his son Harman in Love Story 2050, Aamir Khan promises us a nostalgic glimpse of his Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak avatar in his nephew Imran Khan’s debut Jaane Tu. Not to be missed, Anupam and Kirron Kher’s brawny son Sikandar is all set to make a very Tom Cruise/ Days of Thunder-inspired smoke-and-bike debut in Woodstock Villa. And for the romantics who appreciate the good old-fashioned who-does-she-really-end-up-with- triangle, newbies Nakuul Mehta and Adhyayan Shekhar Suman are the worthy contenders in Haal-e-Dil.
When Shah Rukh Khan gears up to play the older man love interest of 19-year-old model Anushka Sharma in Aditya Chopra’s Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Salman Khan readies to play the harrowed husband of Kareena Kapoor in Main aur Mrs Khanna, you sure know that the teenybopper lover slot is vacant. Bollywood has plenty of options in these young guns.

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