Rakesh Roshan had mortgaged his house and cars for Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai; Hrithik Roshan recalls heated argument with dad: ‘He gave it back to me’

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He continued, looking back on an argument that led to a showdown between the two of them, “I always saw the glass half-full. I had not colour-corrected in two or three scenes, because I was handling that. And the overseas prints had already been sent. So, I came to my dad, really upset that, ‘How could you let that go?’ And I think that was the first time that my dad gave it back to me. He gave it back to me in my face. He turned to my mom, and he said, ‘I am doing everything for him, and he’s sitting here and he’s complaining’. And that’s the night I found out, my mom told me, that the house was mortgaged, the cars were mortgaged… I realised how much was at stake.”

Ameesha Patel and Hrithik Roshan in Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai.

Hrithik’s mother, Pinkie, said that she often had to play the mediator between father and son. She said, “There were days when I found him a bit sad sometimes. I would ask him, ‘What happened? You don’t look good’. Then he would come out of it eventually tell me that he wanted to do a scene a different way, but papa wanted it another way. I used to feel bad, as a mother. From his room, I would go to my room and talk to my husband, and I would ask what happened, and he’d say, ‘Hrithik knows nothing! I’m the director!'”

Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai turned out to be a massive blockbuster, and turned Hrithik into an overnight sensation. His remains the last major Bollywood debut of a future superstar. Hrithik has sustained his stardom for over two decades, and will next be seen in the film War 2.