Meet the Roshans Rakesh, Hrithik With Kids Hrehaan & Hridhaan

Hello! Met the Roshans on a Leisurely Weekend Afternoon to Discover a Quiet Revolution Being Led in Notions of Fatherhood, Across Generations. Hrithik Roshan’s Biggest and Most Exciting Role Today, Is That of an Empowered Single Dad, Actualising His Sons’ Deepest Potentialities!

- Sangeeta Wadhwani

We are in Hrithik Roshan’s private world. “Please do not click photos for social media,” order his retinue of PR managers. We quickly refrain from capturing the Santorini blue hues of his living room carpet, (he absolutely adores the Greek hue, not surprising for an Indian Adonis); the soulful expanse of the Arabian sea, the wall collage of photos with his boys; each frame radiating joy, tenderness, swashbuckling style.

This is SO not a bachelor pad! This space is about Hrithik and his own X-Men, or should we say H-Men. In every nuance, from the perfectly assembled hard-bound menu book on his table – “so much easier to tell the staff what to cook in the morning, this has all our favourite dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner;” to the curious hand-grip ladders lacing the recreation room’s ceiling –

“Hrehaan once said I wish I could climb on the ceiling, hold something and walk on the ceiling. In three days, I had this work done. So now they can walk with their hands, through the entire room, without landing on their feet. That’s my home theatre, the screen comes down, and all these gaddas are movable.”

If Act One of Hrithik’s life was building his own identity as an actor and Act Two was marriage, Act Three has been about fatherhood. Not just any kind of fatherhood. Given that Hrithik wins hands-down the title of ‘Bollywood’s Most Introspective Man of Action,’ his tryst with this new role is uniquely his. Experimental. Revolutionary. Luxurious.