as individuals were different from each other with our own style you can still remember images of mehr and madhu sapre today models all over the world have become uniform they are like clothes horses and walking mannequins you cant remember any image today as every image is a copy of another image shown as a reference point to the model people that i worked with be it rohit bal prabuddha dasgupta or bharat sikka were people who were not copying but creating images today there is more production of shows but that time there was more creativity even today if a model were to do his job really well he would become a supermodelhow did you meet mehr she was the person i walked the ramp with in my first professional fashion show she is four years older to me and was a model whose poster i had in my hostel room i was so nervous walking with her that i held her hand and she thought i was making a pass at her though we were good friends we were not in a relationship till i was 25 when i returned from the us after which we got marriedashok mehta was your mentor what was it like working with him when i was in new york a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me as i was a good script doctor i would read their scripts and make corrections to them for 20 per script and was fascinated by films on returning to india i started working with ashok mehta on my first film moksh it took the film five years to complete i looked so stiff in the rushes i decided to quit modeling even though at that time i was at the peak of my modelling career shekhar kapur had worked with ashok mehta and told me i dont know what will happen to the film but you will learn a lot the film was ahead of its time in concept won a national award i was noticed and he became my mentorit took time for you to get success in bollywood how did you deal with that low phase the period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough my films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model i was depressed but did not cry i cry when i am happy for instance i cried seeing my wife crying when i won my filmfare award for rock on when i got my national award when mr bachchan hugged me after om shanti om and whispered in my ear that my life would change after the film i had been like an artist with open windows and a lot to express with a telephone at home waiting to ring but it didnt till rock on came to me in my life mr bachchan is an extremely sensitive person and he told me once in