used to get my food also sometimes because i was unemployed at that time i didnt have a job i had left the banking job i had worked for 79 years i had applied for a transfer it was not happening i was out of work for 6 months i am not a money man my father has also been a middleclass man working in the bank he didnt even send me money because he never wanted me to come to mumbai he allowed me after my sisters death he said that if you want to go go and try your luck for 3 monthsafter 3 months i got the arrangement to work there and then my struggle started in 1978 and the only place where i can look up to was hrishikesh mukherjees office in anupama building we used to meet and talk but he didnt motivate me enough to work at that time however he appreciated me for doing theatre and asked me to continue doing it he said a very good line then he told me that actors are not made by getting enrolled in institutes like nsd or ftii you need several years of practice your common sense and your instinct to become an actorso i continued doing theatre until ipta pulled my attention there is no bigger theatre group than this in india it was a big cultural movement which arose during the freedom movement in india in 1942 both nsd and ftii are child entities of ipta big writers directors farmers workers all of them were involved in the establishment of ipta people like hemant kumar bimal roy hrishikesh dada nadira babbars father sajjad zaheer they all have come from therewe were all connected to the theatre so many generations came and went its been 80 years and its still going on there are countless names in the creative art we are talking about that is art and then i joined ipta i met people like rm singh ms sathyu and got the opportunity to work with big directors what else would one wish for with ipta slowly i started working in the film industry and television i kept working parallely while doing my bank job it was hardat 75 i have to say that many big stars superstars all of them supported me and i survived and i am very thankful to each and everyone of them and directors rajkumar santoshi kundan shah chak de india director shimit amin and several others didnt take long to recognise the talent they kept giving me work thats why today i have a list of more than 180 films 34 tv shows and 54 years of theatre including several adsi have achieved a lot in my journey on top of that rk laxman gave me wagle ki duniya in 1988 and now its new season wagle ki duniya nayi peedhi naye kissey is running on television while i was shooting for chandigarh kare aashiqui they