“I saw a flash of blood-red sheets, it scared me.”

Filmmaker Rakesh Roshan was attacked in 2000 by two unidentified assailants near his office on Tilak Road in Santacruz, Mumbai, a week after the success of his son Hrithik Roshan’s debut film Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai. He was shot in the left arm and grazed in the chest before the attackers fled the scene. In the new Netflix series ‘The Roshans’, Hrithik started talking about the incident in which his father died.

Recalling the difficult phase in their family’s life, Hrithik said, “I still don’t remember being scared for my dad. He was Superman. Even when he was in the hospital, I remember seeing glimpses of the blood-red sheets and for a second it scared me, but the next moment my dad was talking and laughing and seemed to be able to handle it.

“Just a month later, my mother told me what had happened the night before, that my father had woken up screaming for help, thinking he had been shot at. That’s when I realized how weak Superman was. He had such a strong façade that he just never showed his soft side,” he said.

Moreover, Hrithik’s mother Pinkie got emotional and said that it was a difficult time and it was difficult for them to cope between two different emotions at the same time.

Hrithik’s sister Sunaina added, “Oh my God, Hrithik became a star overnight and dad was shot at. Both of those things were unbelievable.” Rakesh’s brother, composer Rajesh Roshan, said: “He is a very strong man, he was shot and bleeding, but he went to the police station and told to catch the people who did it.”

Hrithik then revealed that he was at the gym when his father was shot.

On the front, Hrithik is working on Ayan Mukerji’s War 2, starring Kiara Advani and Jr NTR.