When Hrithik Couldn’t Sleep At Night

Rediff.com‘s
Ronjita
Kulkarni,
Hitesh
Harisinghani
and
Afsar
Dayatar
bring
back
beautiful
stories
from

The
Roshans
launch.

“I
am
so
afraid
that

Kaho
Naa…
Pyaar
Hai
is
releasing
again,”
Hrithik
Roshan
tells
the
media.

“People
will
go
and
think
what
were
we
thinking
25
years
ago?!”

The
room
explodes
with
laughter.

But
Hrithik
is
not
done
yet.

A
picture
of
a
youngster,
who
became
an
overnight
star
25
years
ago,
is
seen
grinning
on
a
large
screen.
It’s
a
still
from
that
hit
song,

Pyaar
Ki
Kashti
Mein,
and
Hrithik
takes
us
to
that
exact
moment.

“I
remember
this
guitar
was
given
to
me
one
day
before.
I
was
supposed
to
play
it.
When
you
give
something
like
this
to
someone
like
me,
you
can
expect
me
to
go
crazy.
Because
I
didn’t
play
the
guitar
and
I
had
to
look
like
I
could
play
one,”
he
recalls.

“I
couldn’t
sleep
that
night.
The
whole
night
I
kept
trying
to
make
a
physical
action
with
my
fingers
matching
the
sound
of
the
instrument
to
the
song.
And
I
nailed
it!”
he
exclaims.

“Today,
my
sons
play
the
guitar
and
they
look
at
that
and
say
he
just
couldn’t
do
it,”
Hrithik
says
with
a
laugh,
as
the
room
laughs
with
him
again.

“I
was
obviously
play-acting
it
and
at
least
my
fingers
were
moving
with
the
sound.
But
they
were
all
the
wrong
notes.
So
yeah,
apparently
I
did
not
nail
it,”
he
says,
shaking
his
head.

Watch
this
hilarious
anecdote

But
it’s
not

Kaho
Naa…
Pyaar
Hai
that
the
stage
is
set
up
for.

Netflix
is
all
set
to
release

The
Roshans,
which
documents
the
lives
of
three
generations
of
the
family,
Music
Composer
Roshanlal
Nagrath,
his
sons
Rakesh
Roshan
and
Rajesh
Roshan
and
his
grandson,
Hrithik
Roshan.

Roshansaab
passed
away
when
his
sons
were
still
teenagers.
The
younger
generation
may
not
know
the
extent
of
his
contribution
to
the
film
industry,
but
many
of
his
songs
are
still
heard
today.

Hrithik
never
got
to
meet
his
grandfather
and
he
wonders
what
kind
of
conversation
they
would
have
had.

“I
would
like
to
ask
him
about
his
childhood,
about
the
things
he
went
through.
I
think
he
may
ask
me
if
I’m
happy,”
Hrithik
says.

“I
would
thank
him
because
I
often
wonder,
you
know,
what
was
that
drive
that
I
had
when
I
was
doing
my
first
film?
What
was
it?
Where
did
it
come
from?
The
simplest
answer
is
that
it
was
already
there,
it
was
in
my
cells.
It
was
something
that
passed
on.”

The
Roshans
is
directed
by
Shashi
Ranjan,
and
he
narrates
how
it
all
came
together.

“Rakeshji
has
a
very
nice
house
in
Khandala
and
takes
me
there
often,”
Shashi
says.
“In
the
evening,
we
sit
together
and
sing
songs
and
listen
to
music.
One
day,
I
sang
a
few
songs
by
Roshan
sir.
So
Gudduji
said,
you
sing
a
lot
of
daddy’s
songs.
I
said
yes,
I’ve
been
singing
his
songs
since
childhood.
A
discussion
happened
that
we
should
do
something
for
Roshan
sir.
He
died
very
early
unfortunately.”

“I
said,
let’s
make
a
documentary
on
Roshan
sir.
He
said,
yes,
let’s
see.

“After
three-four
days,
I
went
to
him
again,
saying,
Gudduji,
we
should
make
that.
Where
will
it
be
made,
who
will
take
it,
I
don’t
know,
but
we
should
make
it,”
he
says.

But
Shashi
admits,
it
was
difficult
to
convince
Hrithik
for
the
documentary,
and
he
tells
us
why.

“When
my
father
said
that
he
wants
to
make
this
documentary,
at
first
I
felt
embarrassed,”
Hrithik
says.

“I
don’t
like
attention,”
he
explains
(he’s
shy,
he
told
us
just
a
day
before,
and
proved
it
by
asking
the
media
to
stop
applauding
him
at
the
event.

Even
his
pal
Abhishek
Bachchan,
who
made
his
debut
the
same
year,
just
a
few
months
later,
calls
him
‘quiet’
in

The
Roshans
trailer.)

“But
I
realised,
no,
this
is
not
about
me,”
Hrithik
continues.
“It’s
not
about
me
at
all.
This
is
about
history
and
history
is
important.
It
is
the
history
of
my
ancestors,
my
parents,
my
grandfather,
my

chacha…”

His

chacha
Rajesh
Roshan,
however,
feels
very
differently.

“I
am
in
the
Roshan
family
but
I
think
differently,”
he
confirms,
and
tells
everyone
just
what
he
thinks
about
the
documentary.

The
Roshan
brothers
are
as
different
as
chalk
and
cheese,
and
just
a
few
minutes
of
observing
them
on
stage
gives
that
away.

While
Rajesh
Roshan
loves
to
tell
a
good
story,
his
quieter,
older
brother
hastens
to
remind
him
that
the
stories
must
only
be
revealed
in
the
documentary,
not
on
stage.

But
younger
siblings
are
known
to
have
their
way,
and
Rajesh
Roshan,
who
tasted
success
when
he
was
barely
20
with
his
chartbuster
soundtrack
in
1975’s

Julie,
dives
in.

Listen
to
it
here:

The
media
was
treated
to
many
moments
in
the
Roshans’
lives
through
photographs
taken
through
the
years.

There’s
one
from
the
sets
of

Koyla,
starring
Shah
Rukh
Khan,
and
directed
by
Rakesh
Roshan.

“Hrithik
was
assisting
in
that
film,
and
he
used
to
sit
with
me
on
the
script
writing
also.
He
used
to
concentrate
a
lot,
so
he’s
looking
at
the
two
of
us,
drinking
tea,
and
thinking
that
‘I
am
working!'”

There’s
another
picture
of
a
young
Hrithik
with
Superstar
Rajnikanth,
when
they
starred
in
the
1986
film,

Bhagwan
Dada,
directed
by
Hrithik’s
maternal
grandfather
J
Om
Prakash.

“Whenever
I
messed
up
a
shot,
whenever
I
made
a
mistake,
my
grandfather
used
to
cut
the
shot.
And
Rajni
sir
used
to
take
the
blame,”
Hrithik
says,
and
explains
why
in
the
video.

The
Roshans,
featuring
over
40
celebrities,
promises
to
pack
in
a
lot
of
stories
in
its
four-episode
run
time.

So
if
you
want
to
know
how
the
Nagrath
surname
changed
to
Roshan,
tune
in
to
Netflix
on
January
17.