Sussanne paid on our first date: Hrithik Roshan

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hrithik-roshan-sussanneHrithik Roshan, 39, lives the life of a superhero. He is a fighter and does not quit in life. He is a man of truth and is on a mission to live the best life possible, no matter what. He loves challenges as that is his access to growth. To him, happiness is being enthusiastic and the way to be enthusiastic is being imaginative. His energy makes him restless. While he was quiet and a thinker when he was younger, he is now uninhibited and not afraid of being judged. Ahead of his upcoming superhero film ‘Krrish 3’, he talks to TOI about his strong father, his sunshine wife and what worries him about his older son Hrehaan. Excerpts:

How early in life did you know you would get into films?
I went to Bombay Scottish school and right from the time I was eight or nine, I assumed I would be an actor. While studying B.Com at Sydenham, I started assisting my dad and did that for five years. I assisted him on ‘King Uncle’, ‘Karan Arjun’, ‘Karobaar’, ‘Khel’ and ‘Koyla’ after which came ‘Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai’.

Let’s talk about your father?
I learnt how to be strong from my dad. I am still learning from him. He teaches by example. He has never empowered any kind of weakness. If I have tried to get any weakness by expressing my shortcomings, he has never come forward with sympathy. And by example, he teaches you to concentrate on good. ‘Krrish’ is a manifestation of his own being… the fact that he thought of a film about a superhero and the fact that all his films are about the underdog. That’s how he saw his own life’s journey. He is someone who did not have the resources, but still managed and struggled and created an empire and is continuing to do so. He never shows it, but he is a deeply emotional man. He has been through a lot in his life and has the strength to channelise his emotions in a strong way through his films.

It’s made him a stronger man. He has no ego and is open to suggestions from his fellow directors or directors of my generation and had no ego about narrating his script to Adi Chopra or Farhan Akhtar and take their feedback. I don’t know of many directors who would do that as they are insecure and make films in their isolated space.
He is a very good businessman. He will not let anyone take him for a ride. He has seen tough times. I have seen my mom cry as there was no money for groceries.

Despite the fact that he was an actor, we have been kicked out of our house as we did not have money to pay the rent. I was ten at that time and we had no place to live, so we moved into my mother’s parents’ house and my father lived with his friend until he managed enough money to buy a place. We shifted in without any furniture, slept on the floor for the first two nights, after which he slowly built his house. It taught me that there was a lot behind the glitz and the glamour. I feel blessed to have those teachings of the past that I can pass on to my children. All that I am and all that I have learnt, I have learnt first from him. He has been my best teacher and the rest I have learnt from my own experiences. I shudder to think what Indian cinema would be without him. He is the flag-bearer. Look where he is coming from and the kind of films he is making. If he did not exist, then there would be no genre of superhero or alien films that would be convincing enough to be successful. He is always pushing the bar and when he shies away from doing that, I am there to remind him that he needs to.

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