stand to see a man touch my motherhe deviated from the road less travelled to come to filmdom his first choice was to study astrophysics and join nasa but that was a fiveyear course at stanford university he says instead i decided to spend a year learning the craft he did a fourweek crash course at the la branch of new york film academy learnt western dancing and theatre action fighting enaction to ready himself for the family business but earnestness does not guarantee success in the film worldit does speak about the lengths mahakshay is willing to go to as a teen he worked at his fathers hotels doing the dishes making the housekeeping rounds serving stars who dined here working the accounts my father said if you want to reach here motioning to the ceiling you have to start here motions to the floor he is now on the board of directorswhile some may snigger at mithuns alternative cult movie years mimoh refuses to be embarrassed by films such as gunda whatever my father did he did it for the family he is very clear that he has four children to support and its his duty to provide for them if i have come to this interview in an audi today and hes gifting me a bmw tomorrow its because of the work hes done and cmon gunda is such a cult movieso where does astrophysics figure in between being mithuns son and a public servant i used to say im looking at the stars some day i will be one abhi mere gaadi patri pe aayi hai pehla station bhi nahin aaya