- Born
- Birth nameRakesh Roshanlal Nagrath
- Nickname
- Guddu
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Rakesh Roshan was born on September 6, 1949 in Bombay, State of Bombay, India. He is an actor and producer, known for Koi... Mil Gaya (2003), Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000) and Krrish (2006). He is married to Pinky.
- SpousePinky(? - present)
- Children
- All the movies that he has directed so far, all have their titles starting with the letter 'K'. [June 2007]
- Was shot on January 21 2000 by hitmen believed to act for the mob targeting the Indian film industry. When the doctors opened his chest they found clogged coronary vessels which they cleaned. Without the incident they might have gone undetected before causing a deadly heart attack.
- Father of Hrithik Roshan
- Son of Roshan and Ira Roshan
- Brother of Rajesh Roshan
- Became a grandfather when daughter-in-law 'Suzanne Khan' gave birth to a baby boy, named Rehaan Roshan, on March 28, 2006 at 3:30 pm at Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai.
- (December 2000, about his son Hrithik Roshan): I can understand girls, boys, women and men being his fans, but when one-and-a-half and two-year- old children say 'Hrithik' it bewilders me -- how can they decide they like this person called Hrithik at a time when the only thing they can say is 'mama' and 'papa'?
- (About Hrithik Roshan): Hrithik's way of working is the only way to make sure the industry moves ahead. He is fiercely focused and forces others around him to be the same.
- [February 2013 - reflecting on his amazing 40-year journey as a successful actor, producer, & director] As an actor, I always felt I could do better but I wasn't getting good roles. [So you cut short an acting career and turned to producing films?] Eventually it's the producer that matters the most in the scheme of things, so slowly I switched over to producing ... it was then that I realized that it is the director who holds the key to the film!
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