this story originally appeared in on nov 30 2016after 24 years randeep hooda returned to his alma mater motilal nehru school of sports rai mnss rai 20 miles from delhi on tuesday and discovered that at least 25 of his classmates from a class of around 40 as well as some seniors and juniors had gone into the army and a few of them were martyrsravinder chikkara who used to run the hardest in crosscountry races before running out of breath killed seven terrorists during the kargil war before taking his last breath read alsorandeep hooda urges people to cooperate with government on demonetisation driverandeep hooda is the latest actor to join the chorus of bollywood celebrities singing praises of pm modis demonetisation initiativesandeep palarwal was a mig fighter pilot who died during a flying exercise there are several others who are commanding officers in the army today including brigadiar colonel ravinder khatri who was my sister anjali hooda sanghwans classmate he was at the reunion too he informs admitting that some of his seniors including his house captain satish singroha had beat him black and blue for turning up a minute late or answering back ravinder was unapologetic about it pointing out that i was too hotheaded and high and needed a hammering the discipline having made me a better person randeep admits that it was this school that has made him the man he is today even his inspiration to become an actor came from seeing his sister on stage she bagged a best actress award and i thought if she can do it so can i laughs the actor pointing out that he spent most of his time in school either riding or acting and at 40 hes fortunate to be still doing thathe roamed the stables went into the auditorium and on the stage visited the openair theatre and posed for photographs all day with his classmates teachers and the students he also visited the school infirmary and realised that this was where he had given some of his best performances while trying to convince the doctors that he was too unwell to attend classes or sports sessions i was scared of going back to school not wanting to be treated as special among all these special persons im glad that i didit was a humbling experience my best friend sandeep punia was not there so the reunion was incomplete but i faced the angels and demons of my childhood and it was a cathartic experience he smiles confiding that he also met his school sweetheart charlene shackleton a former beauty queen and spent time chatting with her husband and kids0029randeep hooda names his delhi cafe after his horse