The
two
new
films
that
Neil
Nitin
Mukesh
has
signed
have
peculiar
titles.
"One
of
them
is
called
Frame
while
the
other
is
tentatively
titled
Freeze.
I
guess
audiences
expect
unusual
titles
from
me
after
Johnny
Gaddar
and
my
next
release
Tera
Kya
Hoga
Johnny",
laughs
Neil
who
turned
26
this
week.
Forget
the
staid
family-oriented
good-boy
image
that
Neil
Mukesh
has
cultivated
even
after
playing
the
roguish
double-dealing
Johnny
Gaddar.
On
his
26th
birthday
on
Jan
15
Neil
Mukesh
decided
to
really
let
his
hair
down.
"Well
on
the
night
before
my
birthday,
I
was
with
my
family.
My
brother
who's
ten
years
my
junior,
has
his
board
exams
coming
up.
So
I've
been
keeping
up
late
nights
with
him,
trying
to
coach
him
overtime.
So,
the
birthday
eve
was
a
quiet
family
affair."
But
the
next
day
Neil
whooped
it
up
with
the
babes.
"Don't
ask
me
where
how
and
when.
And
I'll
tell
no
lies.
But
I
cast
aside
my
good-boy
image
on
my
birthday
night," Neil
laughed
wickedly.
He
has
also
gifted
himself
some
brand
new
roles.
"There's
Tigmanshu
Dhulia's
Fame
about
how
the
young
today
are
ready
and
willing
to
take
any
road
as
long
as
it
gets
them
money.
It's
about
the
shortcuts
to
a
bulky
bank
balance
taken
by
youngsters,
again
a
moral
fable
like
Johnny
Gaddar.
Maybe
producers
see
me
as
the
good
boy
gone
to
seed."
Another
day
another
role.
Neil
Mukesh
has
also
bagged
his
own
super-hero
flick,
thereby
creating
an
atmosphere
of
more
comparisons
with
Hritik
Roshan.
Neil
demurs,
"The
film
from
Eros
tentatively
titled
Freeze
is
going
to
be
directed
by
debutant
Jehangir
Surti.
It's
about
a
man
who
sudden
comes
upon
a
supernatural
power
and
how
it
changes
his
life.
Lots
of
FX
and
yes,
one
more
morality
tale."
But
the
first
one
out
will
be
Sudhir
Mishra's
Tera
Kya
Hoga
Johnny.
"It's
an
episodic
look
at
the
life
of
a
street
child
named
Johnny.
I
come
into
one
of
the
episodes."
Tell
him
it's
bizarre
that
his
first
two
films
have
'Johnny' in
their
titles
and
he
laughs.
"Yeah
it
is
rather
uncanny.
And
when
I
was
a
child
I'd
often
call
myself
Johnny
for
no
apparent
reason."
Turning
pensive
at
a
family
on
his
birthday
Neil
sighs,
“I
already
feel
old.
At
25,
I
felt
young.
At
26,
I
feel
I've
crossed
the
age
where
I
could
be
a
kid.
Johnny
is
no
longer
Papa's
kid."
Story first published: Friday, January 18, 2008, 17:08 [IST]