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Though Chandrachur Singh is much younger than most of the heroes going strong today – including Arshad Warsi with whom he made his debut in Tere Mere Sapne – and very much alive, one writes about him in the past tense. He has no assignments and there are two stories making rounds. One has to do with his health. The other has to do with someone very big blacklisting him the way it was once done to Ranjit.
Ranjit was going strong till he got involved with a star wife. The star and his powerful khandaan blacklisted him, reducing him to bit roles in small films.
Chandrachur Singh, or Rocky was once the blue-eyed boy of Jaya Bachchan. He had a sensitive, old world chocolate face and vulnerability female viewers love. He started with a hit in 'Tere Mere Sapne' but fell a step behind when his next release 'Betaabi' failed. He would have been back there along with Arshad Warsi and Mukul Dev but for his power-packed performance in Gulzar's 'Maachis'.
Like 'Betaabi', 'Shyam Ghansham' too was a disaster, but who has been able to predict the fate of a film?
Rocky signed few but apt films. Mansoor Khan may not be in the same bracket with Sooraj Barjatiya, but he was very close, and Rocky was the second lead along with Shah Rukh Khan in 'Josh'. In Kundan Shah's two- hero film 'Friends', the other hero was Saif Khan. The cast is colourful enough to have Mahima Chaudhary and Preity Zinta. Rocky's own favourite is 'Silsila Hai Pyar Ka' because that is the only solo hero film he now has. An unusual name 'Daag - The Fire' raised several eyebrows. It was alright to have the same title in two scripts, or even the meaning ('Ankur - The Seedling') but this did not sound right till the director Raj Kanwar revealed that 'Daag' in Hindi also means fire, gunfire. 'Daag - The Fire' has been warmly received.
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