Mumbai, July 31 :
Mumbai, July 31:
There may be only one Hrithik Roshan, but he's not the only chikna (clean-shaven) around.
Fans of Hrithik - whose hearts have been all aflutter after Chhota Shakeel said 'bhai jyada din nahin hain (he won't be around for long)' - need not worry because the chikna Sunjay Dutt was discussing with the fugitive gangland boss was some other chikna.
It appears that the chikna of the Dutt tapes, the one the actor wants Shakeel to punish for troubling Karisma Kapoor, is gangster Abu Salem.
'We were surprised by reports that chikna was Hrithik and Dutt was conspiring with Shakeel to kill him,' said a police official involved in the investigation. 'Actually, everybody was excited and agitated after the tapes were made public,' he added, suggesting over-reaction.
A close reading of the tapes containing a recorded conversation between Dutt and Shakeel - with directors Mahesh Manjrekar and Sanjay Gupta and producer Harish Sugandh as side characters - in November 2000 makes it quite clear that two chiknas figure in the dialogue.
The first time Shakeel talks about chikna is when he discusses market reports on Mission Kashmir, where Dutt starred with Hrithik and Preity Zinta. Shakeel doesn't seem too pleased with Hrithik and talks derisively about him. But Dutt appears to harbour no ill-feeling towards Hrithik when he tells Shakeel: 'Arre bhai, abhi woh bachcha hai (He is still a kid).'
To this, Shakeel retorts: 'Bachcha rahne do... sirf film mein. (Let him remain a kid, but only in films).'
The first time Shakeel talks about chikna is when he discusses market reports on Mission Kashmir, where Dutt starred with Hrithik and Preity Zinta. Shakeel doesn't seem too pleased with Hrithik and talks derisively about him. But Dutt does not appear to have any ill-feeling towards Hrithik when he tells Shakeel: 'Arre bhai, abhi woh baccha hai (He is still a kid).'
To this, Shakeel retorts: 'Baccha rahne do... sirf film mein. (Let him remain a kid, but only in films).'
But the next time chikna pops up in the conversation is when Dutt brings him in, tentatively. Chikna No. 2, Dutt says, has threatened Karisma and made obscene calls and wonders if Shakeel can do something about it.
Shakeel soothes the angry Dutt by saying that Chikna No. 2 'doesn't have many days left'.
Sources in the film industry point out that Abu Salem had made extortion calls to Karisma a few times and that the Kapoors thought it prudent to keep the incident to themselves. Nobody in Bollywood believes Hrithik was behind the calls - where the language is filthy - mentioned by Dutt or that Dutt was referring to him in the conversation.
Hrithik also acted with Karisma in Fiza, and at the time the conversation between Dutt and Shakeel took place he had been in the industry for under a year, having taken the film world by storm with his debut in Kaho Naa... Pyar Hai that opened in January 2000.
There are also reasons for bad blood between Shakeel and Abu Salem. Both were henchmen of Dawood Ibrahim, but Salem is believed to have fallen out. Police have said earlier that many of the extortion demands made on film personalities in the recent past had come from the Salem gang.
Chikna No. 1
Chhota Shakeel: I am so happy about
what happened to Missionwali (Mission Kashmir).
Sunjay Dutt: Did you like it?
CS: Arre, woh chikne ko maar diya, ha, ha, ekdum first class (You have totally overshadowed chikna).
SD: Bhai, woh baccha hai na abhi...(He is just a kid)
CS: Let him remain a kid, but only in films.
SD: You are right, bhai.
CS: Yes kid, but only in films, ok.
Chikna No. 2
SD: Bhai, ek cheez boloon aapko?
CS: Haan, haan.
SD: Woh chikna jo hai...
CS: Haan...
SD: Karisma ko phone karke bolta hai ki
teri ***. Mere admi ake tere ***. Yeh kya hota hai, bhai?
CS: Haan, haan...
SD: Aap sochiye zara, bhai...
CS: Bhai, jyada din nahin hain.
SD: Ji...
CS: Bas ye dua karo... lage hue hain.
SD: Ji.
CS: Jyada din nahin hai abhi...agar ye aa jata hai na to samajhna khush khabri hi thi woh.
SD:Bilkul, bhai.
CS: Samajh mein aya ya nahin?
SD: Ji, ji.