Hrithik undergoes surgery

Bollywood star Hrithik

Roshan underwent

surgery here on Sunday to remove an old blood clot on the brain surface and the operation went off smoothly. He should be out of the hospital in the next 48 hours, said his father and filmmaker Rakesh Roshan.

The 39-year-old was wheeled out of the operation theatre around 3 p.m at the Hinduja Hospital. His parents and wife Sussanne were present throughout the 50-minute neuro-surgery to correct the chronic subdural hematoma condition.

Rakesh Roshan said: “The surgery is over and Hrithik is fine. He should be out of the hospital in the next 48 hours.”

Hrithik is out of danger and on way to complete recovery, he said.

Before the surgery, Rakesh Roshan told IANS: “It’s a clot between the brain and the skull. So basically it’s a clot in the brain. He will undergo the surgery around 2 p.m. or 2.30 p.m. In medical terms, it’s called chronic subdural hematoma. Me and my entire family is with him.”

Hrithik, who has starred in films like Krrish and Agneepath, also informed everyone about the surgery through his post on Facebook.

On June 27, Hrithik unveiled the first look of his superhero film Krrish 3 on Facebook. The much anticipated sci-fi thriller is set to hit the screens Nov 4, a day after Diwali this year.

A head injury during the shoot of Bang Bang in Phuket is what landed Hrithik Roshan at the Hinduja hospital, says his father and filmmaker Rakesh Roshan.

Rakesh Roshan told reporters: “He was shooting for ‘Bang Bang’ in Phuket, Bangkok. He was doing a stunt where he had to put a jet on his feet and go 30 feet high in the sky and then dive down in the water.”

“So when he rehearsed, he fell the wrong way and banged his head a bit, which he didn’t realise. That started his pain and he started taking pain killers, thinking it will get fine in three to four days because something similar had happened during Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai also.”

The pain subsided, but only to return a month later.

“Hrithik finished shooting in the next eight days and he came to Mumbai. The headache was still there, so we had a CT scan done but nothing showed in it. Then he was on medication. So the pain decreased, but it started increasing gradually in the past four weeks,” said the senior Roshan who has just finished shooting Krrish 3 with his star son.

It was on the night of July 5, a day before he was scheduled to fly to Prague, the Czech Republic, for the next schedule of Bang Bang, that Hrithik complained of severe pain.

“Friday night (July 5) he told my wife (Pinki) that ‘I am not comfortable and something is wrong inside’. So we took another CT scan and MRI. On Saturday morning (July 7) we got them done and then we were told there is a blood clot,” said Rakesh Roshan