3 times Hrithik Roshan was just one of us

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Even Hrithik Roshan was told to practise his dance steps... #RedSeaIFF22

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00:00I wasn't necessarily a good dancer.

00:04I grew up with a very, very bad stutter.

00:11I have seen my father struggle.

00:13I have seen him break down.

00:15Not having enough money to survive.

00:18I did my first song with Farah Khan in Ka Hona Pyaar Hai.

00:32I wasn't necessarily a good dancer.

00:34And Farah took me aside and she talked to me about,

00:39you know, hey, you should practice.

00:41It's important to be able to dance.

00:44Raam Ki Kashti Mein was a song.

00:46There was a lot.

00:48It was not a very big, like a cruise liner.

00:51My room was really tiny.

00:53It was like six by six or something.

00:56So I was on top of the bed looking at myself

00:59and I was rehearsing the steps.

01:01And I rehearsed almost all night.

01:03And finally when I felt I had it,

01:07I laid down and I went to sleep.

01:09And then I woke up again in the middle and tried it again.

01:11It was still there.

01:12Then I went back to sleep again.

01:13The next day, to my surprise and to everyone's surprise,

01:16I got the steps right.

01:18And I was like, oh, something went off in my head.

01:22And I said, ah, practice.

01:26It was so simple.

01:30My father was very, very against me coming into films

01:34because of the struggle that he had to go through.

01:37He was an actor and a producer for 20 years

01:40and he struggled very hard for 20 years.

01:43And he did not want me to go through it.

01:45I have seen my father struggle.

01:47I have seen him break down.

01:49I have seen him expressing his fear

01:54about not having enough money to survive.

01:58I have seen him put his home and his cars on mortgage

02:02to make his next film.

02:04And then I've seen the victories come along as well.

02:08I wanted to prove to myself,

02:10especially because I grew up with a very, very bad stutter.

02:15And it was my one chance to look and feel normal.

02:21If I could just say my dialogues on screen like a normal human being,

02:25that was something that I was...

02:27There was a hunger inside me and I really wanted to be that.

02:33How did you deal with a sudden success,

02:35especially that you'd been around, you know?

02:38Yeah, I don't think I dealt with it very well.

02:40It constantly put me in a state of anxiety

02:44and I just knew that this is not the truth.

02:46It was too much, it was too much.

02:48It was too much, it was too soon and I couldn't understand it.

02:51I was given more than I deserve.

02:53It's like, you know, I worked for 50 rupees

02:57and somebody gave me 100.

02:59And I knew that they were going to come back for the 50 that they gave me,

03:02which I did not deserve.

03:04But you...

03:08You're free.

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