HRITHIK RE-EANACTING KOYLA
Hrithik admits,"Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor, it was always there in the back of my mind, though I was probably scared to admit it. I remember once when my dad had asked me, 'So son what do you want to do with your life?' I had told him I wanted to be an actor. Though, at that time, dad felt I was too young. He asked me to study, go abroad, the usual stuff that parents want from their kids.I could understand why he didn't want me to join films then. He has struggled a lot in this line. He knows that's this is a very insecure place. Obviously, he didn't want his son to go through the same trauma that he went through. Later on, of course, I started assisting him because I was so involved with films. I wanted to learn everything about films and filmmaking. Stuff about camera angles, lighting technique, the works. And I must say all that knowledge has helped me so much.
I mean, there are so many stars who look brilliant on screen. But when you meet them in person you go, 'Oh, they look so normal, ya.' So you never know what the camera can highlight and what it doesn't. I wanted to know how I looked on screen. So I had this standby arrangement with the cameraman when I was assisting dad during Koyla.After pack up, he would stay back and I would enact Shah Rukh's scenes in front of the camera.I used to keep learning new things about myself everyday when I used to watch myself in the editing room after dad left."