The actor who has come a long way from his lover boy image to a multi-talented star is all set to play a wheelchair bound patient in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's next film
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According to reports, Hrithik wiil be seen in an entirely new avatar in his first film with Bhansali.
In the movie he will play a radio show host who is suffering from paraplegia, a disorder that results from spinal cord injury and leads to impairment in sensory or motor functions, often binding the patients to wheelchair or bed. Despite being a paraplegic his character is intelligent and charming.
Aishwariya Rai Bachchan will play the female lead. She will be playing Hrithik's nurse. She is a married woman but gets attracted to him.
The movie also deals with the subject of euthanasia, or mercy killing. The subject bears a striking similarity to the 1972 play Whose Life Is It Anyway and the Oscar-winning Spanish film The Sea Inside, which was about a bed-ridden man fighting a legal battle for 28 years to end his own life. When he loses the legal battle, he eventually kills himself with the help of a nurse who’s in love with him. The film was based on a true story.