Hrithik Roshan Prifile Biography Trivia Movies Awards Quotes
· Name:
Hrithik Roshan
· Nick Name:
Duggu
· Born On:
10-01-1974 in Mumbai, India
· Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
· Father:
Rakesh Roshan
· Mother:
Pinky Roshan
· Sister:
Sunaina
· Grandfather:
J.Om Prakash
· Religion:
Hindu
· Nationality:
Indian
· Eye color:
Green
· Height:
6’2″
· Hobbies:
Daily Exercise,Watching Movies
· Education:
School: Bombay Scottish School
Collage: B.Com from Sydenham College
· Spouse:
Suzanne Khan
· Children:
Hrehaan(2006), Hridhaan(2008)
· Debut Movie:
Aasha
· Debut in Leading Role:
Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai
· Role models:
Raj Kapoor and Sylvester Stallone
· Favorite color:
Black
· Favorite Food:
Indian Food
· Favorite Pe:
Persian Cat
· Favorite Actor:
Raj Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan
· Favorite Actress:
Madhuri Dixit, Madhubala, Kajol
· Favorite Hollywood Actor:
Sylvester Stallone
· Favorite Hollywood Actress:
Helen Hunt and Julia Roberts
· Famous Movies:
Pretty Woman, Life is Beautiful and When Harry met Sally
· Contact Address:
Kavita Bld., 2nd Floor Vithal Nagar Society, 11th Rd.,
uhu Scheme, Mumbai 400 049
Trivia
# Hrithik Roshan’s first movie role was as a child artist when he was six years old in the 1980s movie ‘Aasha’.
# His father, film director ‘Rakesh Roshan’, is the son of music director ‘Roshan’, while his mother, ‘Pinky Roshan’, is the daughter of producer and director ‘J.Om Prakash’. Hrithik has an elder sister, ‘Sunaina’. His uncle ‘Rajesh Roshan’ is a famous music director.
Hrithik with his family
# Hrithik is married to ‘Suzanne Roshan’, owner of Suzanne Roshan’s House of Design and daughter of actor ‘Sanjay Khan’ and has 2 sons named Hrehaan and Hridhaan.
Hrithik with his kids
# His life-size wax figure was installed at London’s prestigious Madame Tussauds Wax Museum on 20 January 2011, making him the fifth Indian actor to have been replicated as a wax statue in the museum.
# His first film ‘Kaho Na Pyaar Hai’ has the record for winning most awards on all award ceremonies including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Music, Best Actor, Best Newcomers.
# Before Hrithik started his acting carrier he was an istance director under his father Rakesh Roshan.
# Has been called the Indian Sylvester Stallone, Brad Pitt and Michael Jackson rolled into one person.
# He has made stubbles fashionable in India.
# He is known as a ‘perfectionist and control freak’. Believes in extensive rehearsals and preparations.
# He often visits terminally ill children in hospitals that desperately wish to meet him.
# He got 30000 (!) marriage proposals on Valentine’s day 2000.
# He was the victim of a defamation campaign in late december 2000. Rumors were spread that he stated in an interview that he hates Nepal and its people.
# In January 2001 Hrithik Roshan was again involved in a controversy. This time about a poster created and used by the Democratic Alliance in South Africa in November 2000 to woo Indian voters. The poster used his face without permission. The ANC reacted angrily and threatened to ban his films.
# Gets 20-30 million rupees per year for endorsing a brand for one year, including commercials [2001].
# His total income from product endorsements in 2000 is estimated to be 20 crore Rupees (~5 million $), by far the most among Bollywood stars.
# As he only said,can’t handle money. His wife and parents are taking care of the financial details.
# He is the son-in-law of Sanjay Khan.
# He was diagnosed at age 21 with scoliosis and told he could never be an actor, dance and do all the things a Bollywood hero needs to do.
# He has been called the first complete Bollywood actor who has no weakness and scores very high in every department: face, physique, voice, dancing, drama, romance, action, comedy, macho, softie…
Personal Quotes
# “In my school days, I used to very shy… I used to be a good boy, very very boring, but a good boy.”
# “At school the one thing I did very very well was how I used to use my charm and charm all my teachers and the principal and get away with less punishment or sometime with no punishment.”
# “I’d been brought up to believe that the best religion is humanity. So, I instinctively knew that Suzanne’s religion wouldn’t matter.”
# “(Pre-KMG release) It’s a do-or-die situation for me. All my well-wishers have done their best for me and only divine intervention can save me now.”
# “I have never forgotten to thank the Almighty for his blessings in the past.”
# “The first step to protecting our environment should be to clean your street, locality or mohalla, be green, eat green and feel green. No other colour can belong to this millennium.”
# “You have to continually dance with life. You have to enjoy the lows as well as the highs. Your life is not going to end on a successful note or a low note.”
# “Along with the frustrations, the struggles, it’s essential to have a perspective which allows you to deal with everything you have to go through.”
# “True strength does not show other people their weakness. On the contrary, it makes others around you, stronger.”
# “In my opinion, real competition is when you push others to excel and then compete with them.”
# “Why does it have to be a cutthroat fight between people? I know it’s an extremely Utopian idea, but then what’s life without a little dreaming?!”
# “Life has been unpredictable; it has been extremes at times. It has surprised, it has shocked, but that’s what makes a complete life.”
# “I’ve experienced many things which many people don’t get a chance to experience and I am glad that I have gone through the whole gamut. I am still smiling.”
# “Anything that I have ever done in my life that has ultimately been worth something has always scared the living daylights out of me, initially.”
# “It’s funny but I’ve always tried to harness my fears and use them as a source of motivation.”
# “Don’t they say that fear gives you wings? It always does that to me. Fear works for me. I want to conquer it.”
# “I have a very strong survival instinct and that has to do a lot with fear.”
# “Fear of being nothing, a complete failure, is not acceptable to me. It drives a person like me to prove something to myself. I would say it is an inherent strength of my character.”
# “These three years have been a time of fears and doubts. Doubts about whether I was actually what people were saying I was or whether I was actually what people said I was post Koi… Mil Gaya. Which was the true me?”
# “There are a lot of unrealised dreams because I never stopped dreaming. One thing I know for a fact is, if I am able to dream them, they already exist inside me and it’s just a matter of time before they take shape.”
# “Creativity should never be about the money. True, money is at the centre of our existence. But it is not all-important. There are other things which make life richer, which have nothing to do with money.”
# “Money should be a means to an end, not an end in itself.”
# “People always react to what they see. And they give according to what they see. If they see a hungry man, they will give him food, if they see a poor man, they will give him money, if they see an angry man, they will shun him and if they see a promising man, they will give him opportunities. That’s human instinct.”
# “One of my 5 most wanted desires is a chance to introduce myself to God. I wonder how I would do it!”
# “Every time I see a child smiling, I go that one step further in believing that yes, there is a God. There is so much innocence ad purity in children. They are, I think, the essence of everything God must be.”
# “I believe God exists because He gives me signs. You can call it a coincidence but I consider them signs. I am not superstitious but I keep looking for signs. And at those times when I have asked for a sign with all my heart, I have usually got it. That could because of the child inside me. It’s fun to believe in these, so why stop?”
# “I was raised to the level of the best and the most famous without anybody being responsible enough to judge whether it was deserved or not!”
# “I think its important to have the looks to some extent but its what’s inside you which people get to see and that’s what makes someone popular or unpopular. So I think it’s not the looks in my case but it’s my work as an artist, which has earned me the respect of the people at large.”
# “When the cover of a magazine claimed me ‘Finished’ the edition completely sold out and the same magazine used my face on its cover in the next two issues.”
#“Please don’t make my face the biggest one in the banner if I’m not playing the central character. I think its wrong to fool the audience by saying Hrithik Roshan is the hero, come and watch the film. That’s cheating.”
# “At times I miss my privacy. But only for five minutes. Then I remind myself that it is a very small price for what I have got.”
# “I am not going to lose sight of the ground because someday, I will have to be back on it.”
# “When I see true love, in any relationship, I believe there is a God. Selfless, complete understanding, unconditional love – which does exist by the way! This kind of love makes me believe that there is something higher than what our minds are capable of understanding!”
# “Its unfortunate that India and Pakistan are always at logger heads. There is no difference when it comes to people, and I really hope and pray that things get really better between neighbours and I am able to visit Pakistan.”
# “Its my heartfelt wish and very strong desire that both countries (India and Pakistan) become friends and sooner the better because its only the poor mes which are suffering in both countries. And all these resources wasted on other things could be better spent on Health, Education, Infrastructure and Welfare of the people who are really in need of help on both sides of the border.”
# “My message to everyone is love and peace, Life is too short to waste it. We could be helping build each others future, and our generations to come will be for ever indebted to us. So lets make the most of it and spread a song of love and happiness.”
# “For most people money becomes the end in itself. People want money for the sake of having money. For me its a means to an end. I want to work hard and make a lot of money.”
# “What happens is that when you start working and making money, slowly and steadily money becomes an end in itself because you tend to want more and more. There should be a point where you draw a line.”
# “I spend on food a lot. I love eating. A lot of money also goes to people who come to the gate of my house. Somebody wants to go to his village, somebody somewhere… I know they are making me a fool, but I give them the benefit of doubt. I see it as if God has given me so much, why shouldnt they also get some.”
# “You know its a very weird thought. I dont think it is charity. I think money is meant for them (the less privileged) and not for me. Dad has seen the hard side of life. When I heard his stories, we as children have imbibed the sense of empathy and compion for people who have less. That’s where it comes from.”
# “Investments are very important because you need to set aside some, because tomorrow is uncertain. You may not have what you have today.”
# “If you spend all that you earn, then there is a possibility that there will be trouble in the future.”
# “There might be unforeseen circumstances that might arise in the next five minutes or five years– so it is very important to invest now.”
# “Both these Filmfare nights are really special to me. Because dreams do come true. One day when Preity and I were in a break on the sets of Koi… Mil Gaya, we had entertained ourselves by pretending that both of us had won Filmfare trophies for the film. Cut to the photo shoot after the awards when we remembered that night. What we’d dreamt of had actually come true for both of us. That was our special night.”
# “Life was tough for me. When I was a kid, nobody played with me because they thought I looked ugly with my extra thumb. It pained me. So once I thought of getting it surgically removed. … But I didn’t. Slowly, I realised that the exterior is not the criterion for love and success.”
# “There was a phase in my life I cannot forget. I was 18, I felt equally confused, hopeless and aimless. It’s killing, but I hung in there. Today, I feel wanted, loved and glorious!”
# “I work best when I’m told I can’t do something, that I’m not the best. It gives me reason to fight, and I’m actually thankful to all my critics as well as those who wrote me off because without their help I wouldn’t have reached where I have today – which is at the top? – I don’t know about that, but its a nice place to be.”
# “If you, in the worst and most painful period, are actively giving it your best shot without harming anybody, things eventually will work out for you.”
# “While most say, ‘you have to see it to believe it,’ I vouch for the contrary ertion ‘You have to believe it to see it.’ The word miracle was coined because wondrous things may have surely happened to validate its meaning. But you have to give every nerve, every sinew and every drop of blood to make that magic happen.”
# “I am going to reach the top. Now there’s going to be no looking back.”
# “ Three years ago too, I’d won two trophies-for Best Newcomer and Best Actor-for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai. But this year’s awards made me even happier. I’ve created history of sorts with them. I don’t think anyone has won two awards each for the same performance in two separate years.”
# “When the cover of a magazine claimed me ‘Finished’ the edition completely sold out and the same magazine used my face on its cover in the next two issues.”
# “I went into the theatre as a nobody, walked in with the crowd and couldn’t walk out. I was mobbed; there was a stampede in the theatre. They had to call the security, the cops. It was crazy. I didn’t know what had hit me.”
# “Please don’t make my face the biggest one in the banner if I’m not playing the central character. I think its wrong to fool the audience by saying Hrithik Roshan is the hero, come and watch the film. That’s cheating.”
# “I was raised to the level of the best and the most famous without anybody being responsible enough to judge whether it was deserved or not!”
# “It was the media which overexposed me and now it’s the media which is saying I’m overexposed! It’s quite a laugh. How can you stop people from writing about you?”
# “At that time, the big news for the media was the underdog beat the superstar! And now it makes for great news that the underdog they thought was a god, is not a god after all. He is nothing, just a mere mortal and the superstar is still a superstar.”
# “I think its important to have the looks to some extent but its what’s inside you which people get to see and that’s what makes someone popular or unpopular. So I think it’s not the looks in my case but it’s my work as an artist, which has earned me the respect of the people at large.”
# “It’s a great feeling when you know so many people love you in so many ways. At times I feel uncomfortable, particularly when I forget that’s it me they want the attention from but on the other hand it’s nice to be recognized by so many people around the world for your work.”
# “It’s the survival of the fittest and I have a very strong survival instinct. A true hero is one who rises after every fall and well I’ve always wanted to be a hero so I’ll keep trying.”
# “I believe God exists because He gives me signs. You can call it a coincidence but I consider them signs. I am not superstitious but I keep looking for signs. And at those times when I have asked for a sign with all my heart, I have usually got it. That could because of the child inside me. It’s fun to believe in these, so why stop?”
# “Life was tough for me. When I was a kid, nobody played with me because they thought I looked ugly with my extra thumb. It pained me. So once I thought of getting it surgically removed. … But I didn’t. Slowly, I realized that the exterior is not the criterion for love and success.”
# “If it’s in my destiny to be a one-film wonder I can’t do anything about it. But no man or magazine can make or break a person’s career.”
# “I’ve always been thankful to all my critics for giving me something to fight for and for keeping me motivated. I hold no grudges.”
# “I enjoy the fact that nothing is for certain (in the film industry). That if you deserve it you will get it. If you work 200 hundred percent and still haven’t got it, maybe it required 300 per cent! You just didn’t give enough. That’s my motto that I kept with me since I joined the industry.”
# “They (My detractors) will soon realise that I’m no flash-in-the-pan star. Because I’ve made promises to my loving parents, Suzanne and myself. That Hrithik Roshan is here to stay and beat the stinking crap out of anyone who calls me ‘a flukey’? Got it?”
# “Be honest with yourself. You have to be brutally honest with yourself first, to be sure whether you have it in you to make it.”
# “I’ve reached a point where I can’t go back and do typical flashy mainstream films unless I am completely convinced that I’d fit in.”
# “ (If I were suddenly given Rs 2 lakh) I’ll give it away. Its too easy money– I dont need it now. So I will give it to someone who needs it more than me.”
# “Exercise is a tool that works towards different but nevertheless positive ends. I use it to destress, recharge or bring in excitement. It pulls me out of the stress zone easily and without any conscious effort, because I enjoy.”
# “ I hope God is my friend because I do forget to pray sometimes. Whenever I get back to Him, I do apologise. With Him, I’m like a 6yr old asking for favours. I don’t know any other ways;.”
# “A smile is the biggest turn-on.”
# “Almost all through my childhood, I thought my mom had some magical powers.”
# “After his phone was stolen by ‘homeless kids’: How much have those kids actually hurt me? I can afford another phone, can’t I? What if they really needed the money? Should I become cynical for life on account of a mobile phone?”
# “When people are angry and frustrated, they don’t even spare God! They call Him names, they get angry with Him, they break off ties with Him. So who am I?”
# “No man in this world can decide or judge another’s destiny. If it is in my destiny to act for the next 60 years, no one can stand there and say that my career is over.”
# “There was no balance between the amount of talent that I had and the amount of superstardom I was experiencing.”
# “For about the next eight or nine months 3 weeks after KNPH, I would turn the pages of the newspapers hoping that they were not carrying a picture of mine. And I must say that I would be pleasantly disappointed! “ “The crowd response at the stage shows was astounding. They made you out to be some kind of God. I had to keep pinching myself so that I wouldn’t get carried away.”
# “ I have to feel an emotion honestly to express it. I don’t think I could do a Fiza right now because I’m far happier today than when I did Fiza.”
# “At the time I did Fiza I felt like Aman. I felt loneliness, I could identify with his struggle, the anger, the pain. I was trying to establish myself, I was experiencing the same frustrations that Aman was on the screen.”
# “I’m having the time of my life. I’ve got more than I ever wanted. I’ve bought a house, I’m doing one shift a day and I’m working with the best banners in the industry. I have enough time for interviews and my fans.” ” The state of contentment isn’t a good feeling for any creative person, for, tomorrow’s another struggle to be conquered, another battle to be won.”
# “No matter what, the balance of life always gets maintained. The moment you get too much of something, something else is taken away. But what’s most important is that one should be happy with whatever one has got.”
# “Be good and trust in God. If u r good, then life will be good Be good and trust in God. If you are good, then life will be good.”
# “It’s a great feeling no doubt. But truth to tell, I don’t believe in fame – it’s a temporary high.”
# “I don’t think any one human being should be given this kind of limitless power or importance. It’s wrong”.
# “I refused to let the adulation affect me. I kept on telling myself `This is not real, it’s an illusion, let me focus’.”
# “Sceptics might say that this is an era of changing value systems. But unless there is undying love, the world wouldn’t have existed.”
# “The best way to handle crisis is to look at it from a different perspective.”
# “My mom tells me that when we face the toughest challenges in life, it’s best to try and turn them into the biggest opportunities.”
# “I did create history once, and.. I might just do it again!”
# “I believe in the truth. How can one live happy under the guise of a false image! Even if its the image of a god. It beats me.”
# “ There is no question of regretting decisions. These are experiences an artiste learns from and moves on.”
# “It’s the survival of the fittest and I have a very strong survival instinct. A true hero is one who rises after every fall and well I’ve always wanted to be a hero so I’ll keep trying.”
# “It’s a blessing to be able to put a smile on someone’s face just by being there. I cherish it and would never take it for granted.”
# “I still can’t make sense of it though… (laughs, then in a softer voice with his finger over his mouth, as if far-off..) Still can’t make sense of it, but its good.. (smiles).”
# “I was made to believe that my sixth finger was lucky for me. Now, I believe hard work and dedication is what brings in luck.”
# “I will only do those roles that excite the child within me – roles which are embarringly honest and close to my heart. “I believe in the truth. How can one live happy under the guise of a false image! Even if its the image of a god. It beats me.”
# “At times I miss my privacy. But only for five minutes. Then I remind myself that it is a very small price for what I have got.”
# “The media put him on a pedestal, then brought him down. Life is a race with no end. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you fall. You just have to keep running. – Rakesh Roshan.”
# “Oh God what have I got myself into? I’ll be butchered if I don’t do well in my forthcoming films. ”
# “It scares me more when I realise that they want to see the extrovert called Raj, who I played in the second half of KNPH.”
# “I’ll try and do better in my forthcoming films. But if I don’t, please do give me another chance. Coz’ all directors I’m working with may not be as great as dad was with me.”
# “(After the shooting) In those four days, in my mind, I knew I would never be coming back to this profession.”
# “Those who felt I’d never make it are offering me films. Even the paanwallah down the road wants to make a film with me.”
# “I remember, I kept asking my friend, ‘What is this? Is this reaction good? Does that mean they’re liking the film?’ And he just kept telling me, ‘Ya man, you’re a star, you’re a star’.”
# “The shot required of me to drown and play dead and for the right shot, I decided to hold my breath longer. In the process I lost my support and I was dying for air. I was kicking and screaming for air and the diver reached me just in time. Otherwise…”
# “Pre -KNPH:” I want to keep the home banner flying high and taking it higher if possible.”
# “I have slept, eaten and worked with the crew, always travelled by train with them, never stayed in five-star hotels where the cast and dad stayed.”
# “If I had to stand there without my shirt, I would look very bad. Of course, only my wife sees that and she is the most stunned when she sees me on screen! ”
# “I am embarred when somebody gives me a chair on the sets. I have been offering chairs to everybody for the past five years.”
# “A time is going to come – and very soon – when they (the media) will all say, ‘Oh, Hrithik is back!”
# “Suddenly the hair, the muscles, the acting, the comic timing is all wrong. Finally, people are seeing it my way. Thank you, God! ” ” I just want to tell all those people who are saying that Ishould be like Shah Rukh or Aamir that they should get a life forthemselves. Mind your own business, man!”
# “Success should be measured not by where you are in life, or where you have reached in life but by the kind of obstacles you have had to overcome to reach there.”
# “I think I am successful because I have worked very hard to overcome my obstacles. Only I know the kind of obstacles that I have had to overcome.”
# “I am not saying that my struggles were the most heroic or tragic, but they were still big struggles for me.”
# “Let me remind everyone who is criticising me of playing only good boy roles that I have played a terrorist in two of my films, in case they conveniently forget it. ”
# “The bottom line is that if you have flops everything that would have worked in my favour had the films worked, has worked against me. So it all boils down to, ‘Nothing sells quite like success!”
# “What I’m going through is the inevitable fall after touching the pinnacle. I’m glad I’m going through this. It’s helping me to grow up. “Acting isn’t just about glycerine shots. That’s the easiest thing to do. I’ve always said Fiza was a breeze to play. There was so much to hold on to.”
# “I was put on the front page of the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. They compared me with Tom Cruise and Elvis Presley after seeing my show. What a compliment.”
# “I was put on the front page of the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. They compared me with Tom Cruise and Elvis Presley after seeing my show. What a compliment.”
# “If I don’t find the right script I won’t sign anything. I’ll probably take a three-month break and go learn tap dancing or something!”
# “I wouldn’t change my acting style or switch tracks every time some newcomer appears on the scene. Because that would mean I’d be changing styles all my life.”
# “It may sound preposterous but I’d also like to do something like Spiderman or A Beautiful Mind.”
# “Since God has given me such success, it has become a motivating factor for me to work harder.”
# “With all the flaws, fortunes and misfortunes, I still stand by every decision I made in my career. With all its imperfections, life is still perfect.”
# “They (the fans) react to a part of your talent, which has been built up to a fantastic level by a team of men.”
# “My present phase is not a result of my stupendous hit. It’s because I did bad films. “ “People would scare me saying that I should have 3 or 4 releases a year because what happens if I do only 1 film a year and that fails? But I know now that that’s not how it works.”
# “I always believe in healthy competition, where you have others pushing you to excel.”
# “The flip side of the movie business is that if you flop as an actor, you lose all your sense of individuality People dont reject a product; they are rejecting you. That kind of rejection is very hard to get up from. You really feel rejected. But what I enjoy is that it is the survival of the fittest. ” “I keep hearing this that — ‘it’s your dad who takes out the best in you.”
# “Actors who are honest do not carry the burden or the tag or awareness of being a superstar along them. They are honest actors who want to do good work, I am one of them for sure.”
# “ When a film fails and you realise it was because you didn’t follow your conviction, it makes you a stronger person.”
# “Commercial success is the ultimate acknowledgement of your work. After all, that is what we all strive for. In fact, that is the only way to measure success.”
# “Being at the top doesn’t just mean you have to be a good actor. You need to have complete control over your senses, your knowledge, every bit of information should be at your fingertips and more importantly, you should know how to handle the world around you. It is also very important to basically be a good human being. Otherwise all you talent counts for nothing.”
# “Fakes are weak people and I am NOT weak! And please I am perfectly comfortable being who I am. I will not change just because my image needs to be spiced up. But I would also like to ask, from where did this tag of Mr. Nice suddenly come along? According to the media, I have had several affairs with my heroines. How conveniently that is forgotten, now. Well, in any case, thanks for entertaining me with all the contradictions. And just for the record, I love being Mr. Nice!”
# “I think its important to have the looks to some extent but its what’s inside you which people get to see and that’s what makes someone popular or unpopular. So I think it’s not the looks in my case but it’s my work as an artist, which has earned me the respect of the people at large.”
# “I am a peaceful guy. I dont confront people and I dont like arguments. I am not a star and I dont understand stardom. I am happy the way I am!”
# “Dad taught us the values of humanity and charity. “
# “I admire Dad tremendously and have learnt my values from him.”
# ” It is not that we cannot fail. Dad has given flops too. He only tries to make good films. We share a good rapport. We balance each other out – I bring my generation’s enthusiasm, he brings his experience.”
# “Dec 31st makes it so easy to let go of past, Jan 1st makes it so simple to start afresh 2 look ahead. Let’s all vow this year 2 let go at every sunset…n start afresh every sunrise. Wish u all the most excitement this 2011 and even more peace. Happy new year beautiful people!! Love love n more love.”
# “As much as I want to come to a point where I level with Dad, I know that it will never happen because as I grow and evolve, I realise that he is leaps and bounds ahead of me. Thank God he is my father, though!”
# “Dad doesn’t ever treat me like a star but he has immense faith in me as an actor. He gives me total freedom to interpret a character the way I want to, within the parameters of the role. ”
# “Dad and I are a perfect balance. He is more practical and focussed. I am a dreamer – as a child I was fascinated by poetry. I could waste time watching a flower bloom; he wouldn’t, because he’s a man of the world which is what I want to be.”
# “My father has always taught me to value people and their views and be strong when it comes to defending your principles.”
# “My Dadi and Nani are old, sensitive and affectionate. They don’t understand this game and get very upset when the media writes nasty things about their precious Duggu.”
# “My grandfather, my nanaji, J. Om Prakash is my other role model. He is someone I have tried to emulate and I hope to be like him when I am his age.”
# “My nanaji’s silent strength, his wisdom, is amazing. There’s a peace and calm and serenity about him that is wonderful.”
# “When I am with my nanaji, I instantly become a student. I just sit and watch and listen to him and he always has something educating and inspirational to tell me. Something from his past, some incident that happened, or some book that he has read.”
# “My father-in-law is an institution in himself. There is always something I learn just by spending sometime in his company. He is one of the most well read people I know.”
# “I wouldn’t be in a relationship if I can’t instill faith in the person I love.”
# “If you read my fan mail you’ll see that my fans respect me for the fact that I’m with Suzanne and that I’m proud of her. ” So marriage becomes an eventuality. It’s just a label. In my mind, I’ve been married to Suzanne for the past five years.” ” When I was ready, I did the good deed (proposing to Suzanne) myself. All my life, I’ve had others tell me how to do things. This was one time I wanted to do it my way.”
# “Marriage is my stress-buster. When I go home to Suzanne, everything else pales into insignificance.”
# “In the relationship between a man and women for a relationship to last it is important to have friendship. Lust is important but it does not last. Suzanne and me are the best of friends. I guess I am the luckiest person on the Earth. “Life explained, in short!!TWO WOLVES!1 eve an old Man told his grandson about a battle tht goes on inside people.He said,”My son, d battle is bet 2 wolves inside us all. One is Evil – anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority n ego.The other is Good – joy,peace,love, hope,serenity,humility,kindness, empathy, generosity, compion n faith” D grandson thought about it 4 a min n then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?”The old Man simply replied- “The one you feed”.”
# “Of course, there is always the need to spend more and more time with Suzanne. The one you love you want to be more and more with the person.”
# “The most attractive thing in a woman is her smile because it’s the single most spontaneous thing during the conversation, which shows her true colours.”
# “The first holiday Suzanne and I had in the past five years was when we spent a week together on our private island at the Four Seasons Resort in the Maldives recently. It was beautiful… if there’s a paradise on earth, I’ve been there. – Did she feel the same way? – It doesn’t work otherwise.”
# “Suzanne’s my team-mate and handles fifty percent of my workload. All I have to do is go on stage and dance. When I’m off the stage I’m a zombie. I’m totally dependent on her. I can’t do without her.”
# “Working with dad I feel like just a worker. There is no awareness of the star tag at all. Sometimes I forget that I am the star of the film at all with the work at hand.”
# “Yes, I am a perfectionist. But I’m also aware that nobody’s perfect, that if you have absolutely no flaws, it will seem artificial.”
# “I have many flaws, especially as an actor, and that’s what goads me on to fix them. I think I succees 60% of the time. The other 40% is what makes me real.”
# “I am like a hero who rises with every fall.”
# “I have been able to laugh at my mistakes and myself. It’s very important to have a sense of humour, otherwise it can drive you insane.”
# “Special day. Feels like ‘kaho na pyar hai’ all over again! 15 yrs ago I met a girl who wanted to offer the world a dream she had in her head. Today that dream is realized. Ladies and gentlemen may I proudly present “THE CHARCOAL PROJECT” design store by Sussanne Roshan.”
# “I knew, for a fact, that there was a reason and a purpose for what I had to go through.”
# “I’ve built my foundations with the stones thrown at me. I remembered all nights I’ve spent crying myself to sleep because I was made fun of. I just collected all those stones thrown at me. That’s what egged me on.”
Movies
Year
Film
Role
1980
Aasha
Child artist
1980
Aap Ke Deewane
Child artist
1986
Bhagwan Dada
Govinda (Child artist)
2000
Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai
Rohit/Raj Chopra
2000
Fiza
Amaan Ikramullah
2000
Mission Kashmir
Altaaf Khan
2001
Yaadein
Ronit Malhotra
2001
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…
Rohan Raichand
2002
Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage
Rohit
2002
Na Tum Jaano Na Hum
Rahul Sharma
2002
Mujhse Dosti Karoge!
Raj Khanna
2003
Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
Prem Kishen Mathur
2003
Koi… Mil Gaya
Rohit Mehra
2004
Lakshya
Karan Shergill
2006
Krrish
Krishna Mehra (Krrish)/Rohit Mehra
2006
Dhoom 2
Aryan
2006
I See You
2007
Om Shanti Om
Himself
2008
Jodhaa Akbar
Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar
2008
Krazzy 4
2009
Luck by Chance
Zaffar Khan
2010
Kites
Jai
2010
Guzaarish
Ethan Mascarenhas
2011
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Arjun
2011
Main Krishna Hoon
Cameo
2012
Agneepath
Vijay Deenanath Chauhan
2012
Krrish 2
Krishna Mehra/Krrish
Awards
Filmfare Awards
Winner
# Filmfare Best Male Debut Award for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Filmfare Best Actor Award for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Filmfare Best Actor Award for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Filmfare Best Actor Award for Dhoom 2(2007)
# Filmfare Best Actor Award for Jodhaa Akbar(2009)
Nominated
# Filmfare Best Actor Award for Fiza(2001)
# Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham(2002)
# Filmfare Best Actor Award for Lakshya(2005)
# Filmfare Best Actor Award for Krrish(2007)
# Filmfare Best Actor Award for Guzaarish(2011)
International Indian Film Academy Awards
Winner
# IIFA Best Male Debut for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# IIFA Best Actor Award for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# IIFA Awards, Personality of the Year(2001)
# IIFA Best Actor Award for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# IIFA Style Icon of the Year Award(2005)
# IIFA Best Actor Award for Krrish(2007)
# IIFA Glamorous Star Award(2007)
# IIFA Best Actor Award for Jodhaa Akbar(2009)
# IIFA Style Icon of the Year Award(2009)
Star Screen Awards
Winner
# Star Screen Award Most Promising Newcomer – Male for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Star Screen Award Best Actor for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Star Screen Award Best Actor for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Star Screen Award Best Actor for Krrish(2007)
# Star Screen Award Best Actor for Jodhaa Akbar(2009)
# Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 (along with Aishwarya Rai) for guzaarish(2010)
Zee Cine Awards
Winner
Z# ee Cine Award Best Male Debut for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Jury Award For Best Actor- Male for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Krrish(2007)
# Jury Award For Best Actor- Male for Guzaarish(2011)
Bollywood Movie Awards
Winner
# Bollywood Movie Award – Best Male Debut for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Bollywood Movie Award – Best Actor for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2002)
# Bollywood Movie Award – Best Supporting Actor for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham(2004)
# Bollywood Movie Award – Critics Award Male for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Bollywood Movie Award – Best Actor for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Bollywood Movie Award – Best Actor for Dhoom 2(2007)
Stardust Awards
Winner
# Stardust Editors’ Choice for Best Performance for Lakshya(2005)
# Stardust Star of the Year Award – Male for Jodhaa Akbar(2009)
# Stardust Best Actor – Drama for Guzaarish(2011)
Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Awards
Winner
# BFJA Awards, Best Actor for Fiza(2001)
# BFJA Awards, Best Actor for Krrish(2007)
Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards
Winner
# Best Male Actor for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# ARY Style Icon Award after being voted as style icon by Pakistani audiences(2008)
# Best Male Actor for Jodhaa Akbar(2009)
# Cinematic Exellence (Male) for Guzaarish(2009)
Golden Minbar International Film Festival(2011)
Winner
# Golden Minbar International Film Festival for Muslim Cinema (Kazan, Russia), Best Actor Award for Jodhaa Akbar(2008)
Other Film Awards
Winner
# Sansui Awards, Best Debut for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2000)
# Aashirwaad Awards, Best Actor for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Kalashree Awards, Best Actor for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Bollywood People’s Choice Awards, Best Male Debut for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Screen Videocon Awards, Best Male Debut for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Screen Videocon Awards, Best Actor for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Sansui Awards, Best Actor for Koi… Mil Gaya(2003)
# Anandlok Awards, Best Male Actor for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Asian Guild Awards, Best Actor for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Children’s Awards, Kamaal Da Actor for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# FICCI Hall Of Fame Awards, Best Actor for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Rupa Filmgoer’s Awards, Best Actor for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Bollywood People’s Choice Awards: Best Actor for Krrish and Dhoom 2007)
# GIFA Best Actor Award for Krrish(2007)
# Anandlok Awards, Best Male Actor for Krrish(2007)
# Masala! Awards, Outstanding Performer of the Year for Guzaarish(2010)
# Global Indian Film & Television Honors, Best Actor In A Lead Role Jury Award – Male for Guzaarish(2011)
Other awards
Winner
# IAS (Indo-American-Society), Young Archievers Award(2001)
# NSPCC Awards, Best Young Achiever for Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai(2001)
# Chhoton Ka Funda Awards, Chhoton Ka Funda Dhishum Dhishum Doley Sholay Award for swashbuckling muscle and action display for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Chhoton Ka Funda Awards, Chhoton Ka Funda Boogie Woogie Award for dance performance in It’s Magic for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Sahyog Foundation Award for Koi… Mil Gaya(2004)
# Pogo Awards, Most Amazing Dancer(2004)
# Bollywood Fashion Awards, Celebrity Style Male(2004)
# MTV Immies Awards, Best Performance in a Song – Male for Main Aisa Kyon Hoon(2005)
# Idea Zee F Awards, Youth Style Icon in Films(2006)
# Filmy’s Person of the Year 2006(2007)
# MTV Lycra Style Awards, Most Stylish Male for Dhoom 2(2007)
# MTV Lycra Style Awards, Most Stylish Couple along with Aishwarya Rai for Dhoom 2(2007)
# MTV Lycra Style Awards, Most Stylish Body(2007)
# MTV Lycra Style Awards, Most Stylish New Look(2007)
# Indian Youth Icon Awards: Indian Youth Icon of the Year for his contribution in the field of entertainment(2009)
Honours and recognitions
# In August 2001, he was honoured with National Citizen’s Award for his contribution to Indian Cinema.
# In 2003, he was honoured with the Awadh Samman by the Government of Uttar Pradesh for his outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema.
# In 2004, he was honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi Young Achiever Award.
# In May 2006, he was conferred with the prestigious Sahara Awadh Samman in a glittering ceremony during finale at the fortnight-long Lucknow Mahotsav.
# In December 2006, he was honoured during the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Panaji for his contributions to mainstream cinema.
# In February 2009, he was among the 10 recipients of the IIFA-FICCI Frames Awards for the “Most Powerful Entertainers of the Decade”.
# On 20 January 2011, his life-size wax figure was installed at London’s prestigious Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, making him the fifth Indian actor to have been replicated as a wax statue in the museum.
