Hrithik to play Bajirao

Ok, now, I know Hrithik is a hardworking bloke and he deserves good things to happen to him and all, but he just doesn't come off as your average Kokanastha Brahmin. I cannot imagine Hrithik Roshan in Shanivarwada. I cannot imagine him eating Gargat Bhaat with metkut. I cannot imagine him eating Tup-Gul-Pungla. And it's not because I am used to seeing him otherwise. I have seen only his first film, where he gets stranded with Amisha on that beach. [What trash!]

Basically, it's quite simple. Hrtihik doesn't look Marathi, especially not like the average Kokanastha Brahmin, who themselves look quite different from the average Marathi dude. Basically, this is where Bollywood falls short, very very short, on research. Just bloody do something and break even, there is little attention to detail, little finesse, if any.

Now look at this in comparison. Look at that pic, put a white sadra on that guy, give him a well maintained moustache, give him a red tope and a red tilak on his forehead. Now a white lenga, and kolhapuri mozadis and a talvar at the cumerbund. Now put him on a black Indian horse and let the tutari sound. This, people, is the Mard Mavla that liberated the Deccan. The Mavla that took the saffron flag to the Kabul river. And I must say, Roland Joffe has picked his man well.