Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan has revealed that there is a connection between him and The Lord of the Rings and the Krrish series, in which he played Rohit Mehra and his son Krishna Mehra.
He shared the interesting titbit at the Amazon Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power press conference in Mumbai on Thursday. Roshan was one of the guests at the event, along with Tamanna Bhatia and members of the cast and one of the creators of the show.
Before welcoming the creator JD Payne and the cast of the Prime Video show, Roshan revealed that his producer-director father Rakesh Roshan got inspiration for the Krrish series from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
“I have a little tale to tell. There’s a little connection between me and The Lord of the Rings that I don’t think anybody knows. One random day back in 2004, my dad put on The Lord of the Rings part one. Saw the film, and couldn’t stop, so part two. Couldn’t stop, so part three. And then he gave me a call, and he was just talking about the way they’ve used this one great incredible idea and then progressed and had this progression which was so incredible and ‘why can’t we do that?’
“So, I said, ‘Okay, what are you talking about?’ And he said, ‘Why can’t we take Koi… Mil Gaya – which is one of our previous films – and have a progression and build on that,’ and that was the birth of Krrish.
If there was no Lord of the Rings, there’d be no Krrish. So, I am gonna take this opportunity to give my little thanks to The Lord of the Rings for making Krrish happen.”
