Not co-directing Krissh 3 with dad: Hrithik

 

Hrithik Roshan will start shooting for Krrish 3 at Ramoji Rao Film Studio in Hyderabad from January 29 or 30, after the release of Agneepath. Even though filming started on December 1, 2011, with Priyanka Chopra, Vivek Oberoi and Kangana Ranaut, he’s not faced the camera yet.

However, he wasactive during the first schedule at Mumbai’s Filmistan Studio, returning as an assistant director on a Filmkraft production after 14 years, sparking off rumours that he is co-directing the superhero sequel with his father, Rakesh Roshan.

“Co-directing Krrish 3 with dad? That’s ridiculous!” scoffs the superstar who started his career as an assistant on the sets of his father’s movies, Karan Arjun (1995) and Koyla (1997). “It’s great fun to be down on your knees trying to fix things. My hands and clothes would get messy, but since I wasn’t an actor and only an assistant, I couldn’t be bothered.”

To gear up for what he admits is one of the biggest challenges of his career, Hrithik has been working out religiously for the last 11 weeks, eating eight meals a day, at regular intervals of two hours. In just 64 days of following the instructions of trainer Kris Genthin and nutritionist Maraica Johnson, he’s shed 10 kilos and lost six-and-a-half inches from a 36-inch waist that wouldn’t allow him to button up his jeans.