HRITHIK ROSHAN

'Hrithik Roshan' (Hindi: ऋतिक रोशन, Urdu: رتک روشن, pronunciation: / born 10 January, 1974) is a prominent Bollywood actor and five time Filmfare Award winner.
Roshan, who began his career as a child actor in a few films in the 1980s, made his film debut as a leading actor with the blockbuster ''Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai'' (2000), which earned him two awards for Best Actor and Best Debut at the Filmfare ceremony, as well as numerous other awards. During his career, he was praised for his performances in films like ''Koi Mil Gaya'' (2003), ''Krrish'' (2006) and ''Dhoom 2'' (2006), being his biggest commercial successes so far, and winning him many ''Best Actor'' awards each. His commercial success and critically appraised performances have established Roshan as one of the prominent actors of India.^[1]

Contents

Career

Personal life

Controversy

Awards

Filmography

See also

References

External links

Career

Roshan's first movie role was as a child artist when he was six years old in the 1980 movie ''Aasha'', where he appeared in a dance sequence as an extra. Roshan went on to play minor roles in ''Aap Ki Deewane'' (1980) and ''Bhagwan Dada'' (1986) both of which were produced by and starred his father in the leading role. He then became an assistant director assisting in the production of his father's films such as ''Karan Arjun'' (1995) and ''Koyla'' (1997).
Roshan made his debut as a leading man in the 2000 film ''Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai'' opposite another debutante actress Amisha Patel. The film was directed by his father and proved to be very successful at the box office, becoming the highest grossing film of 2000^[2] and winner of the Filmfare Best Movie Award. Roshan's performance earned him the Filmfare Best Debut Award and the Filmfare Best Actor Award. The film ''Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai'' entered the Limca Book of Records in 2003 for the most number of Awards won by a Bollywood Film - 102 awards.^[3]
Later that same year, Roshan starred in ''Fiza'', which did poorly commercially but was critically acclaimed, and the moderately successful ''Mission Kashmir'' which was the third highest grossing film of the year.^[2]

In 2001, Hrithik starred in ''Yaadein'' which was a failure at the box office and ''Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham'' which did extremely well at the box office, becoming the second-highest grossing film of 2001.^[5]
Roshan had an unsuccessful year in 2002 when all three of his releases - ''Mujhse Dosti Karoge!'', ''Na Tum Jaano Na Hum'', ''Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage'' - failed to make an impact the box office and were declared flops.^[6] In 2003, he made a comeback with the science-fiction film ''Koi... Mil Gaya'' which was the highest grosser of the year and also won many Filmfare Awards, including another Filmfare Best Actor Award and the first Filmfare Best Actor (Critics) for Hrithik.^[7] He had only one release in 2004, ''Lakshya'', directed by Farhan Akhtar, which did not do well at the box office^[8] although critics called it his most impressive performance so far.^[9]
Roshan took a two-year break from acting before resurfacing with the superhero film ''Krrish'', a sequel to his 2003 hit ''Koi Mil Gaya'' which released in June 2006. ''Krrish'' was a major box office success and one of the highest grossers of 2006.^[10] His most recent release of 2006 is ''Dhoom 2'', a sequel to the 2004 hit ''Dhoom'', in which he played a negative role (a villain) for the first time. The film went on to become the highest grossing film of 2006, as well as one of the most successful films of Bollywood. Both ''Krrish'' and ''Dhoom 2'' won him acclaim. He won his third Filmfare Best Actor Award for his performance in ''Dhoom 2'' as well as numerous other ''Best Actor'' awards for his performance in ''Krrish''.^[11]

Personal life

Hrithik Roshan was born in Mumbai, India, to Pinky and actor/director Rakesh Roshan. He is the nephew of well-known music director Rajesh Roshan. Music director Roshan is Hrithik's paternal grandfather, and veteran producer and director J. Om Prakash his maternal grandfather. Hrithik has a ''supernumerary thumb'' on his right hand.^[12]
Roshan is married to Sussanne Khan (who is now ''Sussanne Roshan''), his high-school sweetheart and daughter of Sanjay Khan. Film clans (see List of Bollywood film clans) tend to intermarry.
The couple had their first child, a baby boy, on March 28, 2006 at Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai, India. The child was named Hrehaan.^[13]

Controversy

In 2001, a rumour alleging Roshan made disparaging remarks about Nepal and its people caused outrage in the country. Several newspapers carried the report, leading to student protests, in which four people died.^[14] The unrest the protests caused forced the government to cancel a flight from Kathmandu to India.^[15] Later the Indian embassy and the actor himself clarified that he had made no such remarks.^[15]
In 2006, at the London press conference for his film ''Krrish'', Roshan said that he knew it was time to leave Shanghai and Hong Kong after six weeks of stunt training and go home when his eyes started "turning into little slits like the Chinese".^[17]

Awards

Main articles: List of Hrithik Roshan's awards and nominations

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1980	''Aasha''	Child artist
	''Aap Ke Deewane''	Child artist
1986	''Bhagwan Dada''	Govinda (Child artist)
2000	''Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai''	Rohit/Raj Chopra	'Double-Winner', Filmfare Best Actor Award & Filmfare Best Debut Award
	''Fiza''	Amaan Ikramullah	Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
	''Mission Kashmir''	Altaf Khan
2001	''Yaadein''	Ronit Malhotra
	''Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham''	Rohan Raichand	Nominated, Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award
2002	''Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage''	Rohit
	''Na Tum Jaano Na Hum''	Rahul Sharma
	''Mujhse Dosti Karoge!''	Raj Malhotra
2003	''Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon''	Prem Kishen Mathur
	''Koi... Mil Gaya''	Rohit Mehra	'Double-Winner', Filmfare Best Actor Award & Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance
2004	''Lakshya''	Karan Shergill	Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
2006	''Krrish''	Krishna Mehra aka Krrish/Rohit Mehra	Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award. Dubbed in Tamil and Telugu with the same title.
	''I See You''	Pedestrian in ''Subah Subah'' song	Special appearance
	''Dhoom 2''	Aryan/Mr. A	'Winner', Filmfare Best Actor Award. Dubbed in Tamil and Telugu with the same title.
2007	''Jodhaa Akbar''	Akbar	Releasing on October 12, 2007
	''Om Shanti Om''	Himself	Special appearance
2008	''Kismat Talkies''		On Hold

See also

★ List of Indian Actors
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References

1. Powerlist: Top Bollywood Actors
2. Boxofficeindia.com
3. 2003 tidbits
4. Boxofficeindia.com
5. BoxOfficeIndia.com
6. BoxOfficeIndia.com
7. BoxOfficeIndia.com
8. BoxOfficeIndia.com
9. Movie Review:Lakshya
10. BoxOfficeIndia.com
11. Box Office Report 2006
12. Hrithik Roshan - factfile
13. Hrithik's son to be named Hrehaan
14. BBC News
15. The Tribune,Chandigarh,India
16. The Tribune,Chandigarh,India
17. Asians in media magazine

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