met ranjeet singh who went by the name ronnie who wanted to cast me in a film he was making with newcomers i do the work that comes my way theres no point in planning which is something this pandemic has taught us thats how i started my careerplaying a brother in two backtoback releases but fir poori zindagi main ladkiyon ke kapde kheenchte reh gaya for the rest of my life i kept playing a baddie who molested womenwasnt it watch ranjeet i hit sridevi with a hunter and returned to my room and wailed missing bollywood baddies fortunately in bombay too we had a terrace so i could continue my hobby later one of my wifes relatives was livid when she found out she had been married to me he instructed his team to credit me with my new name in the film of course there were social repercussions initially i agreed thinking it would be a rubber snake i didnt have any problem with playing a villain how i met her was that i was going to cast her in my film but my parents liked hershe was modern yet homely could speak english as well as punjabiwhat else could i want i am an actor by chance but i was never very excited about it but how could i have replaced my friend without his permission so he sent me a postcard saying he would cast me in another equally important role in the film i had to move out of the suburban fivestar hotel where i was staying with him and to a bungalow on dilip kumar saabs younger brothers insistence didnt you ever think of consciously changing your imageback in those days no one listened to the story before signing a film even the main heroes were told only a line i decided to shoot for my portions so that the sets dont go to waste and my father who had never been accused of any wrongdoing in life didnt end up being blamed for the failed shoot on his death bed that was very professional of youdo you know i flew down to hyderabad to shoot for a film the day my father passed away i have never interfered with anyones scripts and i didnt feel the need to when the film was first announced in a film paper it featured danny as the villain but we were shooting for dharmatma in afghanistan at the time and feroze khan told him to stay back excerptsyouve been doing a lot of gardening latelyi have been fond of gardening since childhood your first film for which you came to bombay was shelvedi was a footballer and went by the name goli the third film was very interesting and id still like to make it basically i met most of the industry within 1520 days back in the dayit wasnt vulgar we had a set formathero heroine comedian villain sister mother during the lockdown the