He started as an unpaid actor, going regularly to the school and hoping like so many others that the break would come. It is difficult to describe the anxiety of waiting and hoping that someone would give him a role, all the time looking at the bright goal of stardom from my uncertain position and waiting, waiting, waiting for that first chance, the first break. It came. I was offered a role in S. Mukerji's "Dil Deke Dekho," starring Shammi Kapoor and Asha Parekh. He was to play the villain. He was so happy to get the part that for a week he celebrated my good luck.
