Hrithik Roshan at LACMA: Bollywood’s Hollywood social calendar is expanding

Hrithik Roshan spent Saturday night at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Bollywood star walked the 15th Art+Film Gala on November 7 in a custom Brunello Cucinelli tuxedo, greeting photographers with a namaste under Chris Burden’s Urban Light lamps. He was hosted by Kavita Gupta, the Indian-origin producer and International Emmy Board member who has spent years putting South Asian talent into international rooms.

Leonardo DiCaprio and LACMA trustee Eva Chow co-chaired for a fifteenth straight year, with Chow saying this would be her last. Gucci remained presenting sponsor, as it has since 2011. The night honored Latvian-born artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, whose Dune films are a current Los Angeles talking point with Part Three still ahead. Nicole Kidman introduced Villeneuve. The evening raised nearly $7 million, a record for the fundraiser that supports LACMA’s film programming and broader mission.

The guest list is easier to pin down than the “first” headlines that followed Hrithik online. Carpet coverage includes Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Timothée Chalamet, Anya Taylor-Joy, Andrew Garfield, Viola Davis, Salma Hayek Pinault, and Al Pacino among many others. Rosé was the musical guest, performing a live debut of New Trick plus Number One Girl, APT., and a Killers cover under the new David Geffen Galleries. aespa’s Ningning and actor Park Bo-gum attended as Gucci ambassadors. India Today also listed Michelle Yeoh among the guests. Multiple Hindi-language writeups have called Hrithik the first mainstream Indian actor at this gala. LACMA’s public materials and major U.S. event coverage have not independently confirmed that, so we are leaving the claim aside.

The denser calendar is the clearer story. Rosé had already been booked as the night’s singer weeks earlier. Korean Gucci ambassadors shared the same Urban Light backdrop. A Hindi cinema lead joined the dinner guest list. For diaspora readers in North America, LACMA’s November fundraiser now holds Bollywood, K-pop, and Los Angeles fashion branding in one place on the same weekend.