This story is from June 6, 2005

Naked fact: New macho 'items'

Jitesh Pillai / TNN / Jun 6, 2005, 11:11 IST
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Men aren't men anymore. They kiss each other, strip at the drop of a hat and evoking catcalls from women.
Naked fact: New macho 'items'
MUMBAI: Men aren't men anymore. At least in the movies. They kiss each other, wear low-slung jeans, strip at the drop of a hat, do item numbers and generally ape their opposite sex.
Meet the freshly packaged gender blenders in Bollywood. Riteish Deshmukh falls in love with a transsexual in the year's whopper hit, Kya Kool Hain Hum, and kisses another in Masti.
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Sanjay Suri stripped to his undies and had a male lover in the sensitive My Brother Nikhil.
In a stark homo-erotic image, John Abraham showed off his curves while grappling with a python in Kaal. A character in Manish Jha's Matrubhoomi cross-dresses while making love to his wife. Shah Rukh Khan and Abhishek Bachchan have both done 'item boy' numbers in Kaal and Rakht, evoking catcalls from women in the audiences.
Besides the underwear, the inhibitions have been peeled away too. The 46-something Sanjay Dutt constantly complains,"I feel like the male Bo Derek," when producers ask him to take off his shirt, while Salman Khan, who first admitted to being uncomfortable in a shirt, now says that too much is being made about his shirt (or the lack of it).
Along with a new wardrobe, heroes also seem to be finding their EQ at long last. Today's bonecrunchers feel it's okay to be vulnerable and show emotions on screen. Suniel Shetty maintains that despite all the macho talk, he cries buckets."Despite my he-man image, Dhadkan, where I cry the maximum, was one film that really worked."
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