Though
back
home,
Guzaarish
hero
Hrithik
Roshan
has
still
not
allowed
his
sons
to
see
him.
Explains
the
concerned
father,
"They'd
get
so
scared
if
they
saw
me
like
this.
Though
my
lips
are
going
back
to
their
normal
size,
they're
still
not
fully
normal.
I
don't
want
my
sons
to
see
me
until
I
look
like
myself
again."
A
new
anti-biotic
pill
almost
choked
the
life
and
breath
out
of
Hrithik
Roshan.
"This
kind
of
attack
happens
in
the
rarest
of
rare
cases.
But
it
happened
to
me.
Anything
could've
happened
if
I
hadn't
rushed
to
the
hospital," says
Hrithik
on
Monday
afternoon
back
home
but
not
recovered
enough
to
face
the
world.
Hrithik
had
gotten
so
frightened
that
he
had
checked
into
the
hospital
alone.
"It
was
crazy!
I'd
have
been
frightened
to
death
at
what
I
saw
in
the
mirror.
Within
minutes
my
lips
had
swollen
to
ten
times
the
normal
size.
Luckily
for
me,
even
in
that
shocking
state,
I
remembered
Will
Smith
in
a
film
where
his
lips
had
swollen
to
monstrous
proportions
because
of
an
allergy.
So,
I
knew
it
wasn't
fatal."
Hrithik
was
immediately
able
to
identify
that
it
was
an
allergy
caused
by
a
new
antibiotic
he
had
taken
half
an
hour
earlier.
"That
was
the
only
alien
substance
introduced
in
my
body.
I
told
my
doctors
about
it.
And
they
were
immediately
able
to
locate
the
source
of
allergy.
Such
violent
allergy
attacks
usually
happen
in
the
West
after
eating
prawns.
I
must
be
the
only
person
in
the
universe
to
get
so
sick
after
taking
an
antibiotic
pill."
Hrithik
was
on
his
way
to
a
very
dear
friend's
funeral
when
the
allergy
attack
that
landed
him
in
hospital
on
Sunday
occurred.
In
fact,
so
alarming
were
the
symptoms
that
Hrithik
just
rushed
to
the
hospital.
Recollecting
the
sequence
of
events
Hrithik
says,
"I
was
driving
to
a
friend's
funeral
when
the
attack
suddenly
happened.
It
just
makes
you
so
grateful
for
the
gift
of
life."
Hrithik
is
overwhelmed
by
the
response
to
his
performance
in
Guzaarish.
"I
guess
this
(the
hospitalization)
was
God's
way
of
balancing
things
out.
I
was
getting
much
love
for
my
performance
it
had
to
be
counter-balanced."
Guzaarish
has
taken
Hrithik
to
new
heights
of
self-realization.
"How
can
one
not
be
affected
when
you
meet
these
people
who
are
paralyzed
for
life?
Their
spirit
and
joie
de
vivre
just
overwhelms
you.
I'll
always
be
grateful
to
Sanjay
Leela
Bhansali
for
giving
the
opportunity
to
do
this
film."
Hrithik
admits
that
it's
not
Dhoom.
"Guzaarish
is
a
different
scale
and
space.
The
closest
I've
been
to
this
space
is
Jodhaa
Akbar.
It's
an
entirely
different
experience
when
you
know
you're
affecting
lives
beyond
entertainment."
Story first published: Thursday, November 25, 2010, 14:10 [IST]