Looking Back: When Hrithik Roshan was warned by Rakesh Roshan’s Friends to avoid doing Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Looking Back: When Hrithik Roshan was warned by Rakesh Roshan’s Friends to avoid doing Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
For Hrithik Roshan, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara was a parlous
project according to his actor filmmaker Rakesh Roshan.
No doubt, Hrithik Roshan has carved his own space in Bollywood in the midst of tbe the dominance of Khans, Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn.
In a career spanning over two decades, the actor has taken several risks with his scripts, and fortunately, most of them paid in a big way. One such film is Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, which was no less than a parlous project according to friends of his father Rakesh Roshan.
Yesterday, Sunday 16, July, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara completed 12 years since its release. The film is special for several reasons and is one of the best buddy films to come out of the Indian film industry. Apart from the critical acclaim, ZNMD was a clean box office success and to date, fans demand its sequel, and we wish for it too. But before all this happened, Hrithik‘s close ones warned him about signing the film.
Once over an interview, Hrithik Roshan said that he remembered when he signed this film on, a lot of his father’s friends were very concerned about him out of sheer love for him.They thought he was making a big mistake because he was playing one of the parts among three characters, and it was certainly not the central character. It wasn’t like he was the hero of the film and Farhan and Abhay were small parts of the film.
As per Hrithik Roshan, the general rule at that time was that you have to uphold the star status, and he knew this film was talking about exactly the opposite. It kind of empowered me because it’s a story that he believed in, and he thought, ‘to hell with the status’, which is merely something that people give you. The work that you do is something that comes out of your own desire.
News input KV Raman
