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)


“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.”

Roshmilla Bhattacharya (MUMBAI MIRROR; August 20, 2014)

When Hrithik Roshan returned to the set of Bang Bang after undergoing a surgery for a head injury he had sustained during the first schedule in Thailand, he was warned by the doctors to avoid getting exposed to any kind of jarring noise.

Confirming this, the actor told Mirror, "I could not tolerate loud sounds at that point. And it was amazing how this fantastic crew went about putting together such big action set-ups without making any noise."

The unit had been forewarned and they ensured that no one raised their voices while Hrithik was on the set. Even the volumes of the walkie-talkies were turned down and while picturising songs, the music would be kept on mute.

Hrithik adds, "It's funny, I have done the entire shoot with ear-plugs on. If an actor standing behind me had a dialogue and I had to react to it, I would have someone wave a flag in front to get the timing right. I am grateful to the crew for their resilience."

On their part, the unit was bowled over by the actor's professionalism. Says a source, "He did not cancel a single day's shoot or create any kind of fuss on the sets. He had just undergone a major health scare yet he was perfectly normal on the sets. His energy never flagged and he never demanded any extra attention from anyone. It was all work for Hrithik."