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The actor, who acquired the heartthrob status overnight with his debut-hit 'Kaho Na Pyaar Hain', revealed that the defect surfaced when he was around six years old.
"Everything seems normal till you start talking. The minute you start talking, you get stuck and you don't know why? Right from your toes to the ends of your hair strands, you are in complete shock. Your heart palpitates, you don't understand and you are aware of people looking at you. You can compare it to hell," Hrithik said.
Recalling his school days on director Farah Khan's celebrity chat show 'Tere Mere Beach Mein', to be broadcast this Saturday on Star Plus, the 35-year-old said his childhood turned hell after his classmates began teasing him.
"Unfortunately, it's one of those handicaps that is made fun of. Especially kids, you can't blame them but they end up being mean because it looks funny. So the childhood of a person suffering from a problem like this is pure hell... you have to go through all those little moments of hell," the actor said.
Attending oral examinations was the most dreaded one for the heartthrob, who played a superhero in the 2006 blockbuster 'Krrish'.
"For oral tests at school, I used to bunk school, I used to fall sick, I used to break my hand, I used to get a sprain."
When asked how long the speech defect has bothered him, Hrithik said, "Six to 35. I am 35 (years old)."
The actor, however, said that things improved for him gradually, after he started practicing speech therapies on a daily basis.
Last seen in the epic 'Jodhaa Akbar', the Hrithik has won four Filmfare awards for the best actor after debuting in the industry eight years ago. His next film 'Kites' is expected to release by the end of this year.
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any one with stammering or stuttring really very embarrassed
We encourage a patient to be forthright. That helps patients to become like any normal man. Life is to a man is assured well when he faces things surely and that makes his like securely well. That is where clinical psychology helps. Even before one is to face any operation he is psychologically strengthened, after all every person rich or poor is just unique, is the principle and practice of psychological management. That is well helping India and its children to be self confident !
Truthful utterance helps any one like Hritik.
I'm 13,5 years old and I have to speak at class like English tests(oh by the way i live in Sweden). I've been going to doctors and they've been telling me shit like "It is because you are stressed", i stammer even if im happy and not stressed, im going to high school after summer and i feel so sad that i must speak alot when im not able to. :(
Guys....its has been a very nice experience of mine....i got rid of this problem to the great extent. dear people,we should keep faith on us that we can do it...& only we can do it...thats all. mind the hritik problem what he told us that...he even could not attend the oral tests that used to held in his school. we know that its the biggest problem in school,colleges to not to speak....and specially in this situation. guys i practiced a lot but it only started working when i built up the confidence and made a strong resolution to my self. "confidence should be in such a manner that we must say that yes now i can drink the ocean as 'SWAMI VIVEKANAND SAID'...... we firstly have to make up the sentences and then we have to speak them...coz some time even news anchor get stammered,,them self due to this... sometime becouse of confusion it happens,as hritik says he still plagues sometime..becouse every one stammers no one has a crystal clear tongue. thank god....
Suffering from the same problem.......i know it's bad, really embarrassing
my stmmering problem has started from the age of 5 and i hasnt been able to overcome it.n now i m 20and i have to face lots of problem.i feel shame when i m not able to speak in front of my class.it hurts so much. plz helm me out
dear friend we always say there is great impact of indian movies on the socitey why should we dont take the real example of the greatest celebrities who had made there one world from zero , the person who had the problem of traumatize still perfom well and won six film fare awards and one international award that is hrithik roshan i think he is the different actor, rather than a unique actor in the bollywood...............
Hi, i am ganesh from asansol in the district burdwan of kolkata.my problem iz same as hrithik have.itz making my life hell and i am triying to get out of this problem very hard.practising day and night have made me a little easy to talk.but sumthing is not clicking and i am really tired of my problem.so plz help me if u have any nice ideas to take me out from this life of hell.even i think that self murder is better to lead a life like this.confidence level is going down day by day.plzzzzzzzzz help me.becoz i dream to be an actor in my future.I also want to establish my life as the brightest diamond in the world ever made before.plzzzzz help me
you need to chill yourself out and try not to get stressed (easier said than done), its all about confidence the more you avoid words and situations the worse it gets, beleive me i have been there and i have been below there, my stammer got so bad i couldnt say a single word!! started with 1 then spread to them all, have confidence and think of the worst word possible to say then spend a day going out and saying it again and again, it will work, fight the fear, the more you say it the more the fear level will drop! its how it works!!!!
hrithik roshan is now the greatest icon for my life, because my childhood life had been same as it was for hrithik. i always have dreamed of doin somthing big in life, but always my speech becomes the problem. i cannot buy tickets, cant answer my roll call, i cannot even utter my name, now this is really a hell as hrithik says. in the films like kaminey it looks cool sometime, but wat in the real life. in the unconcious mind, when someone distrubs my sleep i speak clearly, but when completely awake the problem starts maturing, till the night. the first thing is to free the mind of all the worldly matters if you want to clear stammeerin. but my mind starts woring and i even cannot do meditation for even a second. i want to present myself to the whole world in a polished and confident way as hrithik does. i will do it one day.
MY message to all the stammerers is that you and only you can cure yourself . I had a stammering problem and it was not actually stuttering , it was that dreaded pause kind of stammering which we all know has got nothing to do with the throat or the tounge, it is all in the mind. The only way of overcoming is to feel confident , good and happy about being who you are and not considering anyone better than you. It worked for me and am sure will work for all you young boys and girls out there. Face the world as if you are the best and the fact is that when you will come out of it, it will make you appreciative of others and will make you fall in love with yourself. ALL THE BEST AND SPEAK WITH CONFIDENCE.
whenever i used to talk with anyone suddenly me throat stuck and no voice come out from my throat for this reason i always be in depressed. even in class i cannot able answer any question which is ask by teachers. while talking from phone also i faced many problem and make listener unpleasant. in group discussion also i cant able to talk nicely due lack of confidence. please help me.
i have got also problem for stammering thats why i cant geting the good job and now days my confidence going very down plzz help me any body those have got true answer plzzz help me i m very fedup for this problem
Today hrithik is a superstar.Everyone who is struggling with his personal problem like who is too shy,lack of confidance,for them hrithik is a symbol of hop.he showed us that anyone who wants to win,can win,the need is practice and and faith in god that whatevr he did is right
i have also this problem . i dont want anythink about this . bcz i know about this. give me advise for avoid stammering.
i really think that hrithik is a true actor bcoz he had struggle with his problem i can understand this bcoz i also have stammering problem. hrithik is my idle. i think guys like hrithik understand one's problem. so iff a movie is made on awareness about stammering, hrithik is definetely going to make justice to it as he knows how much pain a stammerer had to go in this so called great Indian society where people make fun of a handicap instead of providing help.
Now Hrithik should act in a film that shows the dark side of stammering. The emotional part and the struggle that a stammerer goes through.Bcoz no other actor knows this better than him.This movie should not be like other movies in which stammering is introduced just to make the people laugh at it and enjoy.This movie should make the people cry at the feelings and struggles of a stammerer.I am sure if given a right direction and an actor like Hrthik roshan, this movie will definitely go for Oscar.No doubt in that. And if someone makes this movie in Hollywood that I wud like Will Smith to be the actor. He is the only Actor who can act in any type of movie and can also make people cry with his Talent in acting .Just like he did in "Pursuit of Happyness" and "7 Pounds". Come on guys. If we want to spread Awareness in India about stammering in the right sense, Movie is the only option. But the story should be gud like pursuit of happyness.I pray to God that some director reads this.
Stammering has made my life hell. No girl loves me for this. I am depressed. Pls help.
be honest. say so to your fiance naturally she will accept you for yr boldness and this will convince her that you will compensate your defect by boldly trying to overcome. Try a help from speech therapist, as we in US call them speech pathologist