to cancel the wedding saying his iqbal couldnt be married here i was a middleclass guy whose wedding cards had gone out being told to cancel it i didnt know what to do it was after a lot of convincing and assuring him that i would keep the wedding under wraps that he let me have a day off on january 1 my newlymarried wife and i reached hyderabad at 7 am at the airport there was a crewmember waiting to take us to the hotel and from there me to the sets before i could get into the car he asked me to remove my shoes as iqbal doesnt wear any over the next three months i was bare feet after a day of practice sessions on our first wedding night i was running a feverdid you manage to keep your wedding a secretyes i didnt admit to it in any of the press interviews that i gave out but when it came to premieres and there were many private screenings arranged by our producer subhash ghai deepti wanted to attend by then she and nagesh were wellacquainted with each other he is her rakhi brother in fact so he told her to attend the premiere as his sister on the first day deepti fainted outside the theatre because she was so overwhelmed with emotion to see me on the big screen when subhash ji saw her one too many times at screenings and enquired nagesh told him who she really was he refused to believe i was married to him i was an 18yearold boy who had had a child marriage and was not even feeding his wife making her faint laughshave there ever been roles that you didnt take up and regretted laterit has happened to me but in such a funny way so after watching jolly llb i messaged subhash kapoor sir telling him what a brilliant watch it was and he told me it was the same script he had approached me with i had absolutely no recollection of this i dont know how i could say no to such a film also kapil sharmas first film kis kis ko pyaar karu had come to me first when abbasmustan sir and johny lever sir were producing it i had raised concerns about the scripts similarities to a marathi play but then they didnt come back to mehow much is improvisation important to youas someone who has done theatre improvisation is very important i remember the first day of om shanti om i was reading the script and wanted to do certain things with it but wasnt sure if id be allowed to when i couldnt take it anymore i walked up to shah rukh and told him what i wanted to do i knew if he didnt agree it would be one of the worst shoots ever but if he did it would be the best fortunately shah was game to let me try whatever