Rakesh Roshan(I)

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.

(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'?