We recently caught up with the Krrish 3 actor and as we got talking he revealed in detail about his critical brain surgery which he underwent while he was still shooting for Bang Bang…
Tushar Joshi (DNA; September 26, 2014)

Hrithik Roshan is geared up for his next release Bang Bang which is an action-packed film co-starring Katrina Kaif. While the honey-eyed actor looks ready to storm the box office with his latest offering, it wasn’t easy for him to shoot for the film. Apart from the personal turmoil, Jr Roshan faced health problems while he was filming for Siddharth Anand’s action thriller which is the official remake of Hollywood film Knight and Day. In fact, things were so bad that doctors told him it could cost him his life. Hrithik recalled the whole episode and told us what exactly had happened to him.

“To get the blood out of my brain was the biggest challenge I faced during the shooting of Bang Bang. I had a flight to catch in eight hours and I felt something is wrong. I was on the treadmill at that time and I was supposed to go for an action schedule. I said, ‘something is wrong, my hands, my legs, my co-ordination, I can’t feel anything. I was signing something and my handwriting was not the same. It was difficult to write. I called my doctor, got a scan done and my whole left side was filled with blood. My brain had shifted to the right. I told them that I had to catch a flight in eight hours and they told me, ‘if you fly, you die.’ They told me take the blood out. In three hours I researched, got the best doctors. I did whatever I could and was in my
control and only then I relaxed.”

He further added, “I had to educate myself on this topic and I had to find the best doctor. I met three to four doctors but I chose the one who told me, ‘I am the doctor, you’re the patient, I know what to do’ and I knew this is the man because when he is entering my brain his hand won’t shake. And then I was inside the operation theater, singing songs with the nurses and I saw the blood spurt out from my head…actually. They have something which is like a jack hammer. There are 10 people holding your head and that thing goes inside making this terrible noise and then the blood just spurts out. Wow…uske baad gaana waana sab ruk gaya. I was conscious all the time. Because I had read that during any brain surgery, the only way to keep a check whether the needle has gone in too much is by the facial expression. If it enters too much, then maybe you twitch or make weird faces. That’s the check for the brain because the brain itself doesn’t feel anything so I had to be awake.”