Hrithik Roshan claims to have gotten a ‘deeper understanding’ of the differently-abled people by acting in films like Kaabil and Guzaarish. As a result, the actor hopes to make public places more accessible for these people.
“Through my film’s characters, I have acquired a deeper understanding of differently-abled people’s lives and the challenges they face. One thing that has been playing on my mind is the need for our public places to be easily accessible to these people. It is a larger thought, but it is surprising that it hasn’t happened yet, even with over 20 million differently-abled people in India.”
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“Coming from the film fraternity, I would like to appeal to the multiplex chains to take them [differently-abled people] into consideration and work towards appropriate infrastructure. Infrastructure with which they [the differently-abled] will not be deprived of the big-screen experience of a film, and won’t have to think twice before stepping out for something as small as watching a movie. I’d love to help if there is anything I can do for that,” he said.
“I perhaps realised for the first time that the phrase ‘differently-abled’ is not just a polite word for disabled people. They are actually differently-abled… How I look at them has changed forever,” he said.