Hrithik Roshan took time to be convinced about his Fighter character as he isn’t ‘Kabir or Pathaan’; Siddharth Anand reveals if his aerial actioner can match Pathaan numbers

With more than Rs 1,000 cr global box office collection of Pathaan, the expectations with Siddharth Anand to deliver another blockbuster with Fighter is sky high.

Hrithik Roshan stars in Fighter.

The world of Fighter might be larger than life and extravagant, Hrithik Roshan says, but there is a world of a difference between his latest collaboration with Siddharth Anand and the filmmaker’s past work, especially War and Shah Rukh Khan starrer Pathaan. Hrithik, who plays an Air Force pilot in the aerial actioner, says he took time to take up the character of Patty.

Fighter stars Hrithik, Deepika Padukone, Anil Kapoor among others as Air Force pilots. The look and feel of the film–and also of Hrithik’s Patty–might be like a big screen spectacle that Siddharth is known to mount, but the actor says with the film, even he is breaking his patterns and trying something new.

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“It took time for me to be convinced about Patty. He is not larger than life, the film is larger than life. Up until then I was doing characters which a larger-than-life emotional arc, but I understood that what Sid was trying to achieve, he was breaking his own mould and constructing a hero, by taking aspects of me as a person, putting them together and saying. ‘Hey, this is what I want from you and here is my character, who is not larger than life.’ He is not Kabir or Pathaan, he is just a guy,” Hrithik said in an interview.

Fighter is the third collaboration between him and Siddharth after War and Bang Bang. The film is also the second directorial release in a year for Siddharth after Pathaan. The Shah Rukh starrer spy actioner broke all box office records when it arrived on January 25, the same date Fighter is opening worldwide.

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With more than Rs 1,000 cr global box office collection, naturally the expectations with Siddharth to deliver another blockbuster with Fighter is sky high, but the filmmaker said it is impossible to predict the business of a film, even if the makers are confident it will win the audidnce.

“No filmmaker can predict the level of success or figures their films can achieve. You can dream, but not plan for it. It is a lot of love, luck and effort obviously. We were all taken by surprise with Pathaan numbers. The audience just opened their hearts with the film. Now we are at the cusp of something very special again.

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“We are just hoping, not for the numbers, but that we get a lot of love and recognition. We have made a desi film. It is stylised, but very rooted. This is a proper Hindi film, which speaks to the lowest common denominator. There is something for everyone in Fighter. We are hoping for love, numbers will follow,” he added.

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