Back in the year 2000, Hrithik Roshan made his Bollywood debut with the film 'Kaho Na Pyar Hai' and since then he has starred in several iconic and memorable films. Although his father Rakesh Roshan is a successful film producer and actor, Hrithik was asked to find his own way to become a movie star and had to go through his fair share of struggles.

Hrithik told Galatta Plus, "My father told me time and time again, 'I'm not going to make a film for you, you're on your own'. So, I was doing screen tests, I did a couple of them, I was looking for work. For my photo session, I had no money. I had promised Daboo Ratnani that I will pay him once I start to earn. All of this was going on, and suddenly, I got this offer. And all I knew was that I had to satisfy my director."

However, Rakesh Roshan ended up giving Hrithik his first break and talking about that, Hrithik said, "When he heard that I was doing screen tests, and was getting offers, maybe he sat down one day and thought, 'Yeh kya ho raha hai (What is this happening), am I losing out?' That, and he was making a film at that time with Shah Rukh [Khan] or Aamir [Khan] which fell through."

He added, "And he had another thought, and while he was working on the scripting of that film with all the writers — and I was a part of this process — some weeks into it, everyone started feeling that this film needs a new boy or new girl. You have seen big stars do these roles, and even I was a part of that, that noise. Even I was like, 'Yes, papa, I don't want to see Shah Rukh do this'. And, when this got very repetitive, he said, 'That's not what I had in mind, I'm taking you in the film'."