in coimbatore unfortunately due to tensions with my supervisor there i had to quit when i returned to delhi i didnt know what to do i was attending a party when i met ranjeet singh who went by the name ronnie who wanted to cast me in a film he was making with newcomers now i had heard stories of filmwallahs coming to the north promising films to youngsters and then exploiting them so i was wary but gave my nod i was to play the role of the protagonist who was a truck drivers helper since i was tanned and skinny i would look the part i didnt tell my friends because i didnt think i had the personality or looks of an actor and telling my family was out of the question because they were so orthodox we couldnt even read a film magazine with heroines pics on itgo onbut when ronnie came to bombay his friends in the industry advised him against making a film with a rank newcomer since he himself too was one so he sent me a postcard saying he would cast me in another equally important role in the film i came down to bombay and on my second day here met and dined with sunil dutt who immediately took a fancy to me the next day i met raj kapoor saab for the first time i had met a man with blue eyes and cheeks so fair basically i met most of the industry within 1520 days unfortunately ronnie hadnt introduced me as his find and everyone assumed i was just a helping hand to him one day out of the blue he told me he would be shelving the film i had to move out of the suburban fivestar hotel where i was staying with him and to a bungalow on dilip kumar saabs younger brothers insistence i didnt want to go looking for work so i decided to go back to delhia friend asked me to get him some work in a production house and just before leaving the city i took him to dutt saabs office there the manager told me that dutt saab was angry with me as he had been trying to get in touch with me for a role and was unable to thats how i landed reshma aur shera the next day mohan saigal called me asking if id want to do a small role in his film sawan bhaadon i said i would thats how i started my careerplaying a brother in two backtoback releases but fir poori zindagi main ladkiyon ke kapde kheenchte reh gaya for the rest of my life i kept playing a baddie who molested womenwasnt it dutt saab who changed your name to ranjeetyes it was when we were shooting my debut film once when we were driving down to jaisalmer from the remote location where we were shooting dutt saab pointed out that since there were two comediansv