Rakesh Roshan recalls Hrithik Roshan’s near-death accident on Krrish set; actor refused to stop shooting: ‘This fear will remain with me’

Hrithik Roshan's father and director Rakesh Roshan recently shared details about his son's near-fatal mishap on the sets of Krrish and how the actor escaped from it unhurt.

By: Entertainment Desk

Kochi | January 27, 2025 04:10 PM IST

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Hrithik Roshan's father and director Rakesh Roshan recently shared details about his son's near-fatal mishap on the Krrish set and how the actor escaped from it unhurt.

Krrish is the second instalment in the eponymous franchise that began with the 2003 sci-fi action drama Koi... Mil Gaya. (Express archive photos)

No matter how many precautions the team takes, every action sequence in a movie comes with a certain degree of risk. The danger is even greater when doing actioners. During the filming of the superhero movie Krrish (2006), Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan had a near-death experience, which he escaped by a hair’s breadth. Recently, his father and the film’s director Rakesh Roshan shared details about the incident and how the actor escaped from the mishap unhurt.

“While filming Krrish, before every shot featuring Hrithik, I would pray that everything goes well. When he’s swinging from one place to another, he’s on a pendulum and people below are controlling him. These controllers are so experienced that if he had to land somewhere, his legs needed to touch the ground first. If he landed on his knees, they would have been broken. Since the speed is so high, every shot of him swinging from one place to another was filmed at 200 fps instead of (the usual) 24 fps,” he shared during a recent chat with Connect Cine.

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Recalling the near-tragic accident that occurred in Singapore in 2005, Rakesh said, “He was climbing very high and I was sitting across the road with the cameras. I could sense that he wasn’t comfortable and was trying to adjust something. By the time I got up from my chair to inform my action director, he had already fallen. The cable snapped and he fell. Since he fell behind a tree, I couldn’t see what had happened. So, we all rushed to the spot. Fortunately, he landed on a canopy.”

He continued, “I believe these are all God’s blessings. Just half an hour before that, it had rained in Singapore, so all the restaurants had their canopies out. He fell right in the centre of one of the canopies and didn’t even touch any of the iron rods. And then he said, ‘Papa, I am fine; don’t worry.’ I told him we wouldn’t shoot today, but he replied, ‘No, we have to shoot today; otherwise, this fear will remain with me.'”

The second instalment in the franchise that began with the sci-fi action drama Koi… Mil Gaya (2003), Krrish featured Priyanka Chopra, Naseeruddin Shah, Rekha, Sharat Saxena and Manini Mishra in key roles. The film later received a sequel in 2013 titled Krrish 3.

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