Birthday Exclusive: 25 Facts You Didn't Know About Hrithik Roshan
10 Jan 2014 12:39 AM IST
Birthday Exclusive: 25 Facts You Didn't Know About Hrithik Roshan
Bollywood's poster boy Hrithik Roshan turns 40 today! To celebrate, we've compiled a list of a few lesser-known facts about the star. Here's to Duggu!- Hrithik Roshan is known to have one of the best physique in the business
- The only actor whom Hrithik is extremely close to is Uday Chopra. In fact, the two actors are good friends since the time they were in school. The duo went to the same school and attended the same computer and karate classes.
- Hrithik Roshan is said to be inept at handling money. He depends on his parents and now ex-wife Sussanne, to take care of the financial details.
- Hrithik's 'Kaho Na Pyar Hai', which won 102 awards in total, was entered in Limca Book of Records in 2003 for winning the most number of awards won by any Bollywood film.
- Hrithik won both the Best Actor and Newcomer trophies at the Filmfare Awards for his role in 'Kaho Na Pyar Hai'.
- Hrithik has sung for two movies - 'Kites' and 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dubara'.
- Hrithik once contemplated quitting his acting career completely, following the mafia’s attack on his father Rakesh Roshan.
- In the year 2000, on Valentine's Day, Hrithik Roshan claims to have received about thirty thousand proposals for marriage from his fans.
- Apart from his fabulous acting skills, Hrithik also has a fondness towards photography. The star maintains a personal scrapbook where he documents his daily life by taking pictures adding them to his scrapbook.
- Hrithik was diagnosed with scoliosis (An abnormal lateral curve to the vertebral column) when he was 21. The doctors told him that he would never be able to dance. Which of course proved to be wrong, just because of his sheer determination!
- Hrithik shot for his role in 'Agneepath' with a painful slip disc, which he developed as a result of undertaking a dangerous stunt.
- While Hrithik’s love for fitness is well known, not many people know that he gets depressed when he is in bad health.
- Hrithik admits to having a crush on actress Madhubaala, and later, Parveen Babi during his growing up years.
- However, his movie 'Koi…Mil Gaya' required for him to show off his extra thumb, as the plot of the movie featured an alien with two joined thumbs.
- Hrithik Roshan is born with two thumbs in his right hand, which he considers lucky, but hides in all his movies.
- When Hrithik successfully quit smoking with help from the book, he purchased 50 copies of the book and distributed it among his smoker friends to help them quit smoking as well.
- Once a chain smoker, Hrithik Roshan gave upon smoking after reading the book 'How to Stop Smoking'.
- Hrithik has always been extremely close to his father. As a result, he never got any scolding or beating from his father, with the exception of one incident. Once when Hrithik and some of his friends were throwing empty bottles from the terrace,
- Hrithik Roshan made his debut the same year as Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor.
- Hrithik attended the Bombay Scottish School. He later attended Sydenham College for doing B.Com.
- About his stammering, Hrithik once said, "For oral tests at school, I used to bunk school, I used to fall sick, I used to break my hand, I used to get a sprain." The actor has now started a speech therapy institution to help people with similar
- Hrithik was not always the eloquent man he is now. He suffered from a stammering problem since childhood, and he underwent extensive speech therapy to combat the problem.
- Later, when he worked as an assistant to his dad Rakesh Roshan, Hrithik did all kinds of menial jobs, like serving tea to the actors and sweeping the floors.
- Hrithik Roshan made his acting debut when he was merely six years of age, in 1980, when he was cast as an extra in a dance sequence for the movie 'Aasha'.
- Hrithik Roshan's real name is Hrithik Rakesh Nagrath.
Bollywood's poster boy Hrithik Roshan turns 40 today! To celebrate, we've compiled a list of a few lesser-known facts about the star. Here's to Duggu!
Birthday Exclusive: 25 Facts You Didn't Know About Hrithik Roshan
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