Personal life
Roshan was born in Mumbai to a family of cinema personalities. His father, film director Rakesh Roshan, is the son of music director Roshan, while his mother, Pinky, is the daughter of producer and director J. His uncle Rajesh Roshan is a music director. As a child, Roshan attended the Bombay Scottish School. He later attended Sydenham College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Commerce.
After completing school and college, Hrithik turned down a Masters
Degree scholarship for further study in the United States, in order to
concentrate instead on film. To learn filmcraft from literally the
ground up—he started off sweeping floors, then gradually progressed to
more demanding responsibilities like story development, camera work,
direction, and editing—Hrithik spent the next six years as a largely
uncredited assistant to his father, director Rakesh Roshan, from Khel
(1992) through Koyla (1997).
Hrithik had known Suzanne since his age of twelve. Hrithik was shy to confess his feelings to Suzanne became his girlfriend for 4 years before their marriage. He married Suzanne Khan, daughter of actor Sanjay Khan, on 20 December 2000. The couple has two sons, Hrehaan (born in 2006) and Hridhaan (born in 2008). Roshan has two thumbs on his right hand.
After small appearances as a child in several films throughout the 1980s, Roshan made his film debut in a leading role in Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai in 2000. His performance in the film earned him Filmfare Awards for Best Actor and Best Male Debut. He followed it with leading roles in Fiza and Mission Kashmir (both released in 2000) and the multi-star blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001).
2000: Debut
On January 14, 2000, Roshan made his film début as leading man in the film Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai opposite another débutante, actress Amisha Patel. The film, which was directed by his father Rakesh Roshan and saw him playing a double role, proved to be very successful at the box office and was declared a runaway "blockbuster" with a revenue of INR620 million (US$9.5 million) which became the highest grossing film in India for year 2000 and winner of the Filmfare Best Movie Award. Roshan's performance was extremely well-received, and the film made him an star overnight all across India.
Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai ultimately entered the Limca Book of Records in 2003 for the most number of awards ever won by a single Bollywood film – 102 awards.
Roshan was next seen in September 2000 as the younger brother of Karisma Kapoor's title character in Khalid Mohammed's Fiza, portraying an innocent Muslim boy.
Hrithik's last release of 2000 – director Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Mission Kashmir with Sanjay Dutt, Preity Zinta, and Jackie Shroff – became the third-highest grossing film of the year. Roshan's performance, as a young man traumatized by the discovery that his adoptive father had been responsible for the death of his entire birth family, was yet again hugely acclaimed. One critic praised him. All these achievements established Hrithik Roshan firmly as one of the biggest stars in the Hindi film industry. "Hrithikmania" swept India.
2001-2002: Growing pains
Subhash Ghai's Yaadein was his first release in 2001, a straightforward romantic drama which for the first time paired him with Kareena Kapoor and also reunited him with veteran lead actor Jackie Shroff from Mission Kashmir. Despite major hype surrounding the film, Yaadein failed to do well critically and commercially within the Indian domestic market.
He bounced back by co-starring in director-producer Karan Johar's mammoth reaffirmation of traditional family values amid the global Indian diaspora – Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham – which did extremely well at the box office, becoming the second-highest grossing film of 2001 and the biggest hit overseas.
The year 2002, however, proved to be an unsuccessful year for Hrithik.
His first release of 2002 was Vikram Bhatt's Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage, a love-conquers-all story which reunited him with Amisha Patel for the first time after their hit Kaho Naa ... Pyaar Hai (2000). Unlike their first film together though, Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage disappointed both critics and the box office.
His second release of 2002 was Na Tum Jaano Na Hum directed by Arjun Sablok, a love triangle story which co-starred Esha Deol and Saif Ali Khan. Despite an original storyline and gorgeous locations in and around Vancouver, Canada, the film received mixed reviews from critics and performed poorly at the box office.
Hrithik's final release that year was a high-profile release from the famous Yash Raj Films studio – Mujhse Dosti Karoge! – the first feature film directed by Kunal Kohli. A movie whose storyline explored the interaction of love and friendship, Mujhse Dosti Karoge! was expected to do well both critically and commercially because of Hrithik's casting with Rani Mukherji (for the first time) and Kareena Kapoor. But the film neither received critical praise nor was it a commercial success.
Hrithik's string of flops carried over into early 2003, with veteran director Sooraj R. Barjatya's Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon. Cast alongside Kareena Kapoor (yet again) and for the first time Abhishek Bachchan, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon was panned by critics and had a dismal response at the box office.
2003–present: Success
During a television appearance on Koffee With Karan with director-producer Karan Johar, Hrithik Roshan explained his decision to break from industry standard practice (overlapping film shoots) in order to focus his art on one single film at a time.
Hritik Roshan with his wax statue at Madame Tussauds
Lakshya was Roshan's only release in 2004, a fictionalized coming-of-age story set against events from the real-life 1999 Kargil War fought between India and Pakistan at extreme high elevation in the Himalaya. Directed by Farhan Akhtar. Hrithik's performance as the central character was praised by critics, and once again was included in the 2010 issue of the "Top 80 Iconic Performances" by Filmfare.
—Filmfare on Roshan's performance in Lakshya (2004)
Roshan next surfaced on-screen in June 2006 with Naseeruddin Shah and Priyanka Chopra in the innovative Krrish, a sequel to his family's 2003 production Koi... Mil Gaya.
Again directed by his father Rakesh Roshan with music provided by his uncle Rajesh Roshan, Krrish saw Hrithik play a triple-role for the first time: Rohit Mehra, Rohit's son Krishna Mehra, and Krishna's alter ego the title character 'Krrish' – India's first true film superhero – with exciting superpower action sequences choreographed by Hong Kong film martial arts expert Tony Ching Siu-Tung, also a first for Indian cinema.
Krrish was a major critical and box office success which became the second-highest grosser of 2006 — second only to Hrithik's later 2006 release, Dhoom 2 with a worldwide revwnue of INR1.17 billion (US$18 million) . His performance as a superhero was praised, earning him many "Best Actor" awards at various award ceremonies, including Star Screen and the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA). IndiaFM wrote, "To state that Hrithik is the soul of Krrish would be an understatement. If the actor walked away with all noteworthy awards in Koi... Mil Gaya, it's going to be an encore with Krrish. You cannot imagine any other actor enacting the role of a gifted child with aplomb. If his mask and robe look is splendid, watch his makeup, gait and mannerisms as the aged father and you had to agree, he's one of the finest talents on the Indian screen today. Krrish is yet another ground-breaking film in his dazzling repertoire!"
Any quibble that Hrithik Roshan might save his best work for his own family's films was completely squelched by his November 2006 Dhoom 2: not just the highest-grossing film of 2006, but at time of its release the highest-grossing Hindi film of all time.
In 2006 Hrithik Roshan (in Dhoom 2) beat out himself (in Krrish) to bring home his third career Filmfare Best Actor Award.
Roshan's next project did not release until February 2008, due its sheer size and scale: Ashutosh Gowariker's Jodhaa Akbar. He played a historical person for the first time, as the young Muslim Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great who marries the Hindu princess Jodhabai as his Empress (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) in a political alliance to ensure peace in the realm, and thus must learn respect and tolerance in his personal relations as well as the empire he governs. Jodhaa Akbar did very good business, both in India and abroad, earning INR1.12 billion (US$17 million). Hrithik's performance was widely appreciated by both audiences and critics, earning him his fourth Filmfare Best Actor Award as well as his first international award –"Best Actor" at the Golden Minbar International Film Festival in Kazan, Russia.
Roshan appeared briefly in childhood friend Zoya Akhtar's directorial début, Luck by Chance in January 2009, a comedy-satire set against the Hindi film industry. Hrithik played a movie superstar named 'Zaffar Khan' who slyly dodges a not-so-enthralling project he's already shooting in favor of a higher-profile movie with another producer, thus creating the vacuum which allowed the protagonist played by Farhan Akhtar (Zoya's brother) to get his first shot at being a Film Hero. Luck by Chance failed to find an audience but was well received by critics, earning a 75% "fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes.
Throughout 2009 Hrithik Roshan was heavily involved with his family's next home production, the ambitious multi-national romantic thriller Kites, which did not release until May 2010. Largely shot in the United States (Nevada and New Mexico), Kites was produced by his father Rakesh Roshan but directed by Anurag Basu (Gangster, Life In A... Metro, Barfi!). Hrithik played a grey character, an American-born man in Las Vegas running a green card scam where he has married 11 different women in exchange for money. All hell breaks loose when he falls in love with his 11th illegal wife, played by Uruguayan-Mexican actress Barbara Mori, who is engaged to a casino gangster's son. Kites received a huge national and international release on what was then a record number of screens, becoming the first Bollywood movie to break into the North American top 10. However, its mixed Hindi-English-Spanish dialogues seemed to confuse domestic Indian audiences. The film took a strong opening but eventually underperformed in India, although was better welcomed by international audiences and critics.
November 2010 saw Hrithik's first collaboration with director Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Black, Devdas): the bittersweet drama Guzaarish, which united him for the third time with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Upon release, the film received overwhelmingly positive reviews. Hrithik Roshan with co-star Aishwarya Rai promoting Guzaarish
In July 2011, he appeared in Zoya Akhtar's multi-star comedy Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara alongside Abhay Deol and Farhan Akhtar as three 30-something lifelong friends and apparently secure professionals who rediscover their lives and their relationship during a road trip in Spain. This film also paired Hrithik romantically with Katrina Kaif for the first time. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara opened to extremely positive reviews, and Roshan's portrayal of a compulsive workaholic (a financial trader in London) was much praised. According to Rajeev Masand, "Hrithik Roshan once again brings real depth to his character with a spectacular performance. He's shy and restrained, then lets go with such fantastic intensity that you make the inward journey with his character". The film grossed INR1.53 billion (US$23 million) worldwide, surpassing even Dhoom 2 among Hrithik's films. The film was declared as "super-hit" in both in India and Overseas. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara dominated year-end awards for Hindi film, winning 33 awards out of a total 66 nominations, sweeping 7 Filmfare Awards – including both "Best Film" and "Best Film (Critics)" – as well as 9 International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) – including "Best Film" – and 2 National Film Awards. Roshan received "Best Actor" nominations all round, despite sharing equal screen time with two other actors.
In 2012, he then appeared in Agneepath directed by Karan Malhotra for Karan Johar's Dharma Productions, a reworking of the classic 1990 Agneepath revenge drama produced by Yash Johar. Cast alongside Priyanka Chopra and opposite villains played by Sanjay Dutt (as Kancha Cheena) and Rishi Kapoor, Roshan won huge praise for successfully reinterpreting one of the iconic characters of Hindi cinema – Vijay Deenanath Chauhan, originally given breath by the great Amitabh Bachchan – and boldly making the character his own. "Agneepath is worth a watch essentially to savor Hrithik’s performance."
"Nowhere does the remake remind you of the Amitabh Bachchan starrer that came out in 1990, except when Hrithik recites those memorable lines from Agneepath, the poem, and then says his full name, Vijay Dinanath Chauhan.
There is no question of Hrithik surpassing Bachchan’s accomplished performance or falling short in his own portrayal of the legendary character. He is brilliant, but then that is not surprising as Hrithik is an actor more than he is a superstar. The way he played his part, given the complexities and vulnerabilities of his character, is remarkable. He has shown restraint and gruesome bloodiness in equal measure, not once going wrong with his depiction of the fury within. For the duration of his screen time, he ceases to be Hrithik Roshan, and remains Vijay from Mandwa; he breathes fire and soul into the role."
—Rubina A. Khan for First Post (India) on Roshan's performance in Agneepath (2012)
Agneepath (2012) took a historic opening and broke all opening-day records. The movie finished its theatrical run with a worldwide gross of INR1.93 billion (US$30 million), making it one of the highest-grossing movies in Hindi film history.
His next film, the mega-project Krrish 3 (2013) — a sequel to Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) and Krrish (2006), in which Hrithik Roshan again plays the triple role of superhero Krrish, his alter ego Krishna Mehra, and the father Rohit Mehra — will be released on November 1, 2013 after a long gap of more than 21 months, due to Hrithik's heavy personal involvement in all phases of this home production directed by his father Rakesh Roshan with music composed by his uncle Rajesh Roshan. Krrish 3 reunites Hrithik with his female lead from the second film, Priyanka Chopra, and pits him against villains played by Vivek Oberoi and Kangna Ranaut.
The official Krrish 3 trailer broke all previous Indian film records for movie trailers, attracting more than 12 million views at YouTube in less than two weeks — even eclipsing the trailers for such Hollywood superhero mega-blockbusters as Thor (2011) and The Avengers (2012). Krrish 3 upon release attracted positive to mixed reviews. Commercailly, it became a box-office phenomenon, grossing INR3.74 billion (US$57 million) worldwide and was declared a "blockbuster"
During a shoot in Thailand for his upcoming film Bang Bang (2014) with Katrina Kaif, Roshan suffered a head injury from a stunt accident. On July 7, 2013 he underwent brain surgery at Hinduja Hospital, Khar, Mumbai, to relieve a chronic subdural hematoma.
Industry related activities
Besides acting, Roshan made his debut as a playback singer in Kites (2010), and has also sung for the films Guzaarish (2010) and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011).
In 2011 Roshan featured as a judge for the television dance competition reality show, Just Dance along with famed choreographers Farah Khan and Vaibhavi Merchant.
A life-size wax figure was installed at London's Madame Tussauds Wax Museum on 20 January 2011, making him the fifth Indian actor to have been replicated as a wax statue in the museum. Another statue was installed in Washington, D.C. in 2012. Roshan launched his own casual wear brand HRx in November 2013.
On December 13, 2013, Hrithik announced that his wife Suzanne has decided to separate and end their 17 year long relationship.
To Know About his Birthday
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Roshan was born in Mumbai to a family of cinema personalities. His father, film director Rakesh Roshan, is the son of music director Roshan, while his mother, Pinky, is the daughter of producer and director J. His uncle Rajesh Roshan is a music director. As a child, Roshan attended the Bombay Scottish School. He later attended Sydenham College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Commerce.
Hrithik had known Suzanne since his age of twelve. Hrithik was shy to confess his feelings to Suzanne became his girlfriend for 4 years before their marriage. He married Suzanne Khan, daughter of actor Sanjay Khan, on 20 December 2000. The couple has two sons, Hrehaan (born in 2006) and Hridhaan (born in 2008). Roshan has two thumbs on his right hand.
After small appearances as a child in several films throughout the 1980s, Roshan made his film debut in a leading role in Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai in 2000. His performance in the film earned him Filmfare Awards for Best Actor and Best Male Debut. He followed it with leading roles in Fiza and Mission Kashmir (both released in 2000) and the multi-star blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001).
2000: Debut
On January 14, 2000, Roshan made his film début as leading man in the film Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai opposite another débutante, actress Amisha Patel. The film, which was directed by his father Rakesh Roshan and saw him playing a double role, proved to be very successful at the box office and was declared a runaway "blockbuster" with a revenue of INR620 million (US$9.5 million) which became the highest grossing film in India for year 2000 and winner of the Filmfare Best Movie Award. Roshan's performance was extremely well-received, and the film made him an star overnight all across India.
Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai ultimately entered the Limca Book of Records in 2003 for the most number of awards ever won by a single Bollywood film – 102 awards.
Roshan was next seen in September 2000 as the younger brother of Karisma Kapoor's title character in Khalid Mohammed's Fiza, portraying an innocent Muslim boy.
Hrithik's last release of 2000 – director Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Mission Kashmir with Sanjay Dutt, Preity Zinta, and Jackie Shroff – became the third-highest grossing film of the year. Roshan's performance, as a young man traumatized by the discovery that his adoptive father had been responsible for the death of his entire birth family, was yet again hugely acclaimed. One critic praised him. All these achievements established Hrithik Roshan firmly as one of the biggest stars in the Hindi film industry. "Hrithikmania" swept India.
2001-2002: Growing pains
Subhash Ghai's Yaadein was his first release in 2001, a straightforward romantic drama which for the first time paired him with Kareena Kapoor and also reunited him with veteran lead actor Jackie Shroff from Mission Kashmir. Despite major hype surrounding the film, Yaadein failed to do well critically and commercially within the Indian domestic market.
He bounced back by co-starring in director-producer Karan Johar's mammoth reaffirmation of traditional family values amid the global Indian diaspora – Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham – which did extremely well at the box office, becoming the second-highest grossing film of 2001 and the biggest hit overseas.
The year 2002, however, proved to be an unsuccessful year for Hrithik.
His first release of 2002 was Vikram Bhatt's Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage, a love-conquers-all story which reunited him with Amisha Patel for the first time after their hit Kaho Naa ... Pyaar Hai (2000). Unlike their first film together though, Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage disappointed both critics and the box office.
His second release of 2002 was Na Tum Jaano Na Hum directed by Arjun Sablok, a love triangle story which co-starred Esha Deol and Saif Ali Khan. Despite an original storyline and gorgeous locations in and around Vancouver, Canada, the film received mixed reviews from critics and performed poorly at the box office.
Hrithik's final release that year was a high-profile release from the famous Yash Raj Films studio – Mujhse Dosti Karoge! – the first feature film directed by Kunal Kohli. A movie whose storyline explored the interaction of love and friendship, Mujhse Dosti Karoge! was expected to do well both critically and commercially because of Hrithik's casting with Rani Mukherji (for the first time) and Kareena Kapoor. But the film neither received critical praise nor was it a commercial success.
Hrithik's string of flops carried over into early 2003, with veteran director Sooraj R. Barjatya's Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon. Cast alongside Kareena Kapoor (yet again) and for the first time Abhishek Bachchan, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon was panned by critics and had a dismal response at the box office.
During a television appearance on Koffee With Karan with director-producer Karan Johar, Hrithik Roshan explained his decision to break from industry standard practice (overlapping film shoots) in order to focus his art on one single film at a time.
Hritik Roshan with his wax statue at Madame Tussauds
Lakshya was Roshan's only release in 2004, a fictionalized coming-of-age story set against events from the real-life 1999 Kargil War fought between India and Pakistan at extreme high elevation in the Himalaya. Directed by Farhan Akhtar. Hrithik's performance as the central character was praised by critics, and once again was included in the 2010 issue of the "Top 80 Iconic Performances" by Filmfare.
—Filmfare on Roshan's performance in Lakshya (2004)
Roshan next surfaced on-screen in June 2006 with Naseeruddin Shah and Priyanka Chopra in the innovative Krrish, a sequel to his family's 2003 production Koi... Mil Gaya.
Again directed by his father Rakesh Roshan with music provided by his uncle Rajesh Roshan, Krrish saw Hrithik play a triple-role for the first time: Rohit Mehra, Rohit's son Krishna Mehra, and Krishna's alter ego the title character 'Krrish' – India's first true film superhero – with exciting superpower action sequences choreographed by Hong Kong film martial arts expert Tony Ching Siu-Tung, also a first for Indian cinema.
Krrish was a major critical and box office success which became the second-highest grosser of 2006 — second only to Hrithik's later 2006 release, Dhoom 2 with a worldwide revwnue of INR1.17 billion (US$18 million) . His performance as a superhero was praised, earning him many "Best Actor" awards at various award ceremonies, including Star Screen and the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA). IndiaFM wrote, "To state that Hrithik is the soul of Krrish would be an understatement. If the actor walked away with all noteworthy awards in Koi... Mil Gaya, it's going to be an encore with Krrish. You cannot imagine any other actor enacting the role of a gifted child with aplomb. If his mask and robe look is splendid, watch his makeup, gait and mannerisms as the aged father and you had to agree, he's one of the finest talents on the Indian screen today. Krrish is yet another ground-breaking film in his dazzling repertoire!"
Any quibble that Hrithik Roshan might save his best work for his own family's films was completely squelched by his November 2006 Dhoom 2: not just the highest-grossing film of 2006, but at time of its release the highest-grossing Hindi film of all time.
In 2006 Hrithik Roshan (in Dhoom 2) beat out himself (in Krrish) to bring home his third career Filmfare Best Actor Award.
Roshan's next project did not release until February 2008, due its sheer size and scale: Ashutosh Gowariker's Jodhaa Akbar. He played a historical person for the first time, as the young Muslim Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great who marries the Hindu princess Jodhabai as his Empress (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) in a political alliance to ensure peace in the realm, and thus must learn respect and tolerance in his personal relations as well as the empire he governs. Jodhaa Akbar did very good business, both in India and abroad, earning INR1.12 billion (US$17 million). Hrithik's performance was widely appreciated by both audiences and critics, earning him his fourth Filmfare Best Actor Award as well as his first international award –"Best Actor" at the Golden Minbar International Film Festival in Kazan, Russia.
Roshan appeared briefly in childhood friend Zoya Akhtar's directorial début, Luck by Chance in January 2009, a comedy-satire set against the Hindi film industry. Hrithik played a movie superstar named 'Zaffar Khan' who slyly dodges a not-so-enthralling project he's already shooting in favor of a higher-profile movie with another producer, thus creating the vacuum which allowed the protagonist played by Farhan Akhtar (Zoya's brother) to get his first shot at being a Film Hero. Luck by Chance failed to find an audience but was well received by critics, earning a 75% "fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes.
Throughout 2009 Hrithik Roshan was heavily involved with his family's next home production, the ambitious multi-national romantic thriller Kites, which did not release until May 2010. Largely shot in the United States (Nevada and New Mexico), Kites was produced by his father Rakesh Roshan but directed by Anurag Basu (Gangster, Life In A... Metro, Barfi!). Hrithik played a grey character, an American-born man in Las Vegas running a green card scam where he has married 11 different women in exchange for money. All hell breaks loose when he falls in love with his 11th illegal wife, played by Uruguayan-Mexican actress Barbara Mori, who is engaged to a casino gangster's son. Kites received a huge national and international release on what was then a record number of screens, becoming the first Bollywood movie to break into the North American top 10. However, its mixed Hindi-English-Spanish dialogues seemed to confuse domestic Indian audiences. The film took a strong opening but eventually underperformed in India, although was better welcomed by international audiences and critics.
November 2010 saw Hrithik's first collaboration with director Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Black, Devdas): the bittersweet drama Guzaarish, which united him for the third time with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Upon release, the film received overwhelmingly positive reviews. Hrithik Roshan with co-star Aishwarya Rai promoting Guzaarish
In July 2011, he appeared in Zoya Akhtar's multi-star comedy Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara alongside Abhay Deol and Farhan Akhtar as three 30-something lifelong friends and apparently secure professionals who rediscover their lives and their relationship during a road trip in Spain. This film also paired Hrithik romantically with Katrina Kaif for the first time. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara opened to extremely positive reviews, and Roshan's portrayal of a compulsive workaholic (a financial trader in London) was much praised. According to Rajeev Masand, "Hrithik Roshan once again brings real depth to his character with a spectacular performance. He's shy and restrained, then lets go with such fantastic intensity that you make the inward journey with his character". The film grossed INR1.53 billion (US$23 million) worldwide, surpassing even Dhoom 2 among Hrithik's films. The film was declared as "super-hit" in both in India and Overseas. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara dominated year-end awards for Hindi film, winning 33 awards out of a total 66 nominations, sweeping 7 Filmfare Awards – including both "Best Film" and "Best Film (Critics)" – as well as 9 International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) – including "Best Film" – and 2 National Film Awards. Roshan received "Best Actor" nominations all round, despite sharing equal screen time with two other actors.
In 2012, he then appeared in Agneepath directed by Karan Malhotra for Karan Johar's Dharma Productions, a reworking of the classic 1990 Agneepath revenge drama produced by Yash Johar. Cast alongside Priyanka Chopra and opposite villains played by Sanjay Dutt (as Kancha Cheena) and Rishi Kapoor, Roshan won huge praise for successfully reinterpreting one of the iconic characters of Hindi cinema – Vijay Deenanath Chauhan, originally given breath by the great Amitabh Bachchan – and boldly making the character his own. "Agneepath is worth a watch essentially to savor Hrithik’s performance."
"Nowhere does the remake remind you of the Amitabh Bachchan starrer that came out in 1990, except when Hrithik recites those memorable lines from Agneepath, the poem, and then says his full name, Vijay Dinanath Chauhan.
There is no question of Hrithik surpassing Bachchan’s accomplished performance or falling short in his own portrayal of the legendary character. He is brilliant, but then that is not surprising as Hrithik is an actor more than he is a superstar. The way he played his part, given the complexities and vulnerabilities of his character, is remarkable. He has shown restraint and gruesome bloodiness in equal measure, not once going wrong with his depiction of the fury within. For the duration of his screen time, he ceases to be Hrithik Roshan, and remains Vijay from Mandwa; he breathes fire and soul into the role."
—Rubina A. Khan for First Post (India) on Roshan's performance in Agneepath (2012)
Agneepath (2012) took a historic opening and broke all opening-day records. The movie finished its theatrical run with a worldwide gross of INR1.93 billion (US$30 million), making it one of the highest-grossing movies in Hindi film history.
His next film, the mega-project Krrish 3 (2013) — a sequel to Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) and Krrish (2006), in which Hrithik Roshan again plays the triple role of superhero Krrish, his alter ego Krishna Mehra, and the father Rohit Mehra — will be released on November 1, 2013 after a long gap of more than 21 months, due to Hrithik's heavy personal involvement in all phases of this home production directed by his father Rakesh Roshan with music composed by his uncle Rajesh Roshan. Krrish 3 reunites Hrithik with his female lead from the second film, Priyanka Chopra, and pits him against villains played by Vivek Oberoi and Kangna Ranaut.
The official Krrish 3 trailer broke all previous Indian film records for movie trailers, attracting more than 12 million views at YouTube in less than two weeks — even eclipsing the trailers for such Hollywood superhero mega-blockbusters as Thor (2011) and The Avengers (2012). Krrish 3 upon release attracted positive to mixed reviews. Commercailly, it became a box-office phenomenon, grossing INR3.74 billion (US$57 million) worldwide and was declared a "blockbuster"
During a shoot in Thailand for his upcoming film Bang Bang (2014) with Katrina Kaif, Roshan suffered a head injury from a stunt accident. On July 7, 2013 he underwent brain surgery at Hinduja Hospital, Khar, Mumbai, to relieve a chronic subdural hematoma.
Industry related activities
Besides acting, Roshan made his debut as a playback singer in Kites (2010), and has also sung for the films Guzaarish (2010) and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011).
In 2011 Roshan featured as a judge for the television dance competition reality show, Just Dance along with famed choreographers Farah Khan and Vaibhavi Merchant.
A life-size wax figure was installed at London's Madame Tussauds Wax Museum on 20 January 2011, making him the fifth Indian actor to have been replicated as a wax statue in the museum. Another statue was installed in Washington, D.C. in 2012. Roshan launched his own casual wear brand HRx in November 2013.
On December 13, 2013, Hrithik announced that his wife Suzanne has decided to separate and end their 17 year long relationship.
To Know About his Birthday
.
