Rakesh Roshan opened up recently about the time when Hrithik Roshan was offered to do a film by the Mumbai underworld, however Rakesh refused to give in to their demands. After the release of Hrithik’s Kaho Na Pyaar Hai, the actor shot to fame with multiple offers coming his way. Some time later, Rakesh was shot with two bullets by the gangsters but he had a recovery.

In a conversation with Bollywood Hungama, Rakesh recalled, “I never gave any indication that Hrithik could do a film for them. I kept putting them off saying Hrithik had no dates, which in any case, was the truth. They then asked me to take dates away from other producers and give it to them. This again, I refused to do.”

He added, “Once I had committed my son’s dates elsewhere, I refused to give into arm twisting tactics. I never gave in. With the kind of tension and fear that some of us had to bear, we couldn’t do anything creative, let alone make a film.”

After the firing incident, Hrithik said in an interview with Simi Garewal that he felt like quitting films as he was directly or indirectly responsible for it.

A docu-series on the life and times of Hrithik’s film family titled The Roshans, will be released on Netflix on January 17.