Mumbai: Enjoy the action, but don't copy the stunts. That's what Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan wants to tell star-struck fans about his new movie Krrish, in which he plays a superhero.
The actor's appeal came after a fan suffered multiple fractures when he leaped from a balcony in a cinema hall in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh while trying to emulate Roshan's stunts in Krrish. The movie opened to packed houses last week.
"The action scenes are meant to be enjoyed, not imitated. Please, do not indulge in these stunts," Roshan said in a letter to his fans published in Monday's edition of the Mumbai Mirror newspaper.
In the action thriller, Roshan's character transforms from a simple village boy to a youth with super powers. Roshan trained for months in Hong Kong with action choreographer Tony Ching Siu-tung to prepare for the stunts.
Roshan says he performed the action scenes with "full safety precautions" guided by a specialist team of some 40 people.
"Those action scenes are dangerous. I undertook them under close and minute supervision," his message read. "It required immense training, focus and hard work for it to be executed in the correct way."
Roshan also slips in a social message by telling his fans to help people rather than attempt to emulate the superhero in Krrish,who leaps between buildings and glides over rivers.
"A super hero is one who extends a helping hand to the needy," said Roshan. "I'd be happy if you kids touched people's lives instead of trying to imitate my stunts."
The film is a sequel to Roshan's hit Koi Mil Gaya which told the story of a mentally challenged boy befriending an alien.
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