Siddharth Anand gives advice to filmmakers to not resist Hrithik Roshan’s inputs: “Don’t look at it as a threat. He is only coming to improve your vision”

Fighter, starring Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone, is currently running in theatres. Also starring Anil Kapoor, Karan Singh Grover and Akshay Oberoi in pivotal roles, the film directed by Siddharth Anand, was released on January 25. While the film has received mid response from the audience and critics, the box office has witnessed lacklustre performance. In a recent chat, Siddharth Anand said that Hrithik Roshan does not like to take credit but he always has great inputs to his films.

Speaking to Gallata Plus, Siddharth shared, “I have a lot of instances where Hrithik has contributed. Even in War, he is a huge contributor in alleviating Tiger’s (Shroff) character, Khalid. Whenever he would talk to me, it would be only about Khalid and that shows he has got a 360-degree purview on a film. He is not like a horse with blinders, only looking at his character.”

He feels that he and Hrithik are great collaborators. Siddharth Anand added, “I don’t look at him as an actor. He will have so many notes on everything. Strengthening everybody else is also a lot of his effort and his purview. Him wanting to develop an equation with Sanchi in the film (Fighter) is also him. He thinks like a director and not an actor. He becomes an actor only on set.”

He further said, “As a director, my advice to other directors would be, ‘Don’t resist his engagement. Don’t look at it as a threat. He is only coming to improve your vision. You as a director have a powerful right, so don’t be afraid to hear suggestions. He is never going to go on camera and say, ‘Yeh mera input hai.’”

In the same conversation, he also said that he did not want to take away the stardom of Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone in the film and make them more realistic. “I have kept the scenes deliberately very real. Of course, when you have Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone, you want to heighten the romance and use their stardom, but I wanted to use them only as Patty and Mini and show how they would react,” he said.

Fighter also stars Sanjeeda Shaikh, Talat Aziz, Pradum Shukla, and Pradum Jaykar in pivotal roles. The film marks Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone’s first collaboration and the former’s third one with Siddharth Anand after Bang Bang and War.