Hrithik Roshan's 51st birthday celebrations continue, and Sukanya Verma looks at his coolest introduction scenes.
Hrithik's entry scene in War is a wolf-whistle inducing visual demonstration of the phrase.
25 minutes into the movie, Hrithik arrives on the scene to reveal the man behind the quietly building legend of the fierce and formidable force called Vedha.
Hrithik juggles between a coy queen aboard a fancy train and a cool thief landing atop it by flying down a parachute in a bid to steal Her Majesty's crown faster than one collects takeaway.
We can never have enough of Hrithik outracing a horse in all his flying mane and pumped biceps glory in and as Krrish, one of Bollywood's rare, successful superheroes.
Hrithik makes a suave entry at a la-di-da ball as part of a Mission Impossible sequence in Farhan Akhtar's Don sequel, starring Shah Rukh Khan. But the real punch arrives when Hrithik pulls out the mask to reveal the real man behind the mystery.
Horses and Hrithik seldom go wrong. The actor makes a grand entry as a royal in battle mode in Ashutosh Gowariker's lavish historical embodying the majestic spirit of Emperor Akbar.
A smouldering Hrithik aces the remake of Amitabh Bachchan's Agneepath by firing on all cylinders as Vijay Dinanath Chauhan 2.0. The dahi handi scene where he first storms into a sea of blood red gulaal coated crowd to rock the show is as crowd-pleasing as it gets.
Vidhu Vinod Chopra's trouble-in-the-Valley potboiler shows off a young Hrithik's trademark sizzle. Tearing through the ceiling in a thumping fashion, holding the watertight security at gunpoint only to take off with their privileges, the light-eyed star asserted his masala hero prowess early on in his career.
Unlike the hype and hullabaloo accompanying the aforementioned scenes, there's no loud music or razzmatazz to announce Hrithik's presence in Lakshya. Rather, Farhan Akhtar lets the magnificence of Ladakh's pristine enhance the young army officer's sombre introduction.
Hrithik's first scene as a euthanasia-seeking quadriplegic magician in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Guzaarish chronicles his daily routine wherein his caregiver Aishwarya Rai Bachchan takes care of his morning rituals. The hopelessness of the situation truly hits when a pestering fly perches itself on his nose leaving the man with no choice but to smile and make peace with it.