Look: Mob of curly hair, spectacles, and buck teeth with braces. Being a student and later an astronaut, he wears frilled shirt with bow tie, suits, bright coloured shirts over T-shirts and suspenders.
Character Sketch: Intelligent, sweet, shy, simple, believes in the power of love but doesn't know how to speak with a girl and has a very peculiar laughter.
Interests: Telescopes, computers, astronomy, NASA etc.
This New Year, the Geeky Hero is back. Yes, the one who wears thick rimmed frames, braces, caps, suspenders, rucksacks, sling bags etc. The ones who are interested in computers, electronics, and astronomy etc. but are cute, adorable, extremely loving and altruistic. The Geek look is "in" this season even off screen as we have seen Karan Johar, Ranbir Kapoor, Rahul Bose, Riteish Deshmukh, Abhishek Bachchan and Shahid Kapoor sporting the thick black frames for various events, parties, premiere nights, TV shows etc.
Last week's release Pyaar Impossible featured Uday Chopra as Abhay who is in love with the superhot Alisha played by Priyanka Chopra. We therefore, take you down the memory lane to list the 'Geeky Heroes' who have featured on the silver screen in the past.
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi: Shah Rukh Khan as Surinder Sahani
Look: Thick rimmed spectacles with hair parted to one side and a moustache. Being a middle class working man, he wears dull colored loose shirt and pant with sneakers and a laptop bag.
Character Sketch: A simple, clean hearted, staid, honest and an extremely loving man who can do anything for his love.
Look: A cute college boy with ruffled hair and black rimmed frames. Being a 17 year old college boy, he wears colorful T-shirts, sweatshirts, jeans and cargos.
Character Sketch: Aspiring, arrogantly negligent, clueless, rebellious, unreasonably demanding, loving yet not romantic, suppressed yet self- assured and a teen father.
Dream: Wanting to become big and famous and live an up market lifestyle.