00:00You know, you and all your friends, Shah Rukh and the whole lot of you, when you've been
00:05going out for holidays, I know you're one person who never went and stayed in anybody's
00:09house.
00:10You used to book yourself into a hotel and stay.
00:13Isn't that true?
00:14Whether it's Dubai or wherever?
00:15I mean, yeah, I mean, of course, and but I think Bhavna and all have all stayed with
00:20all of them.
00:21In Shah Rukh's house.
00:22Shah Rukh's house in London and in Dubai.
00:25But I've also stayed there a couple of times, but yeah, of course, I'd like to stay in hotels.
00:31I like to stay in hotels because it's not because I would love to stay in someone's
00:35house, but I'm so dirty, I mess up my room so much that the towel is here and there,
00:41that someone will throw me out of the house in a day, including my own house.
00:46So I have to be in a place where they do housekeeping twice a day.
00:49I'm not dirty as to, I mean, I love messing up a place.
00:53So I try not to stay with people, but I've stayed in their houses and he's got a lovely
00:59house in London, got a lovely house in Dubai and I'm so proud of him because I've literally
01:04seen him the day he came to Bombay and he's done so well.
01:08But when Shah Rukh first came to Bombay, he was more Chikki's friend, your brother's friend.
01:12He's always been Chikki's friend.
01:13But gradually after Bhavna came in, how come all of you have become friends?
01:18No, he's always been Chikki and still he's Chikki's friend.
01:21It's just the wives became friends and then the kids became friends and that's how we...
01:26You became a gang?
01:27I mean, yeah, you hang around at times and basically he's Chikki's friend and still he's
01:34Chikki's friend.
01:35Because Shah Rukh and you have not even done too many films together, maybe just one Dawn
01:40or something.
01:41Dawn, yeah, I've done the opening of Dawn with him, yeah, we don't work, we've not done
01:44films together.
01:45Yeah.
01:46You know what he's done, what he's made of everything around him, he's just had the Midas
01:53touch and it's been brilliant.
01:55So these are kind of things I keep telling Ananya, I tell her stories of this, not that
02:03today everything's available on the internet, but you know what it is to be, to create something
02:10and you know the kind of, what do you say, the kind of drive, you need that and a bit
02:17of luck.
02:18And always, yeah, yeah.
02:20But in Shah Rukh's case, I mean, we've all seen where, you know, from the time he came
02:24to what he's built.
02:25Yeah, yeah.
02:26It's an entire empire he's built.
02:28People won't be able to do it in a hundred lifetimes, what he's done.
02:30Exactly, exactly.
02:31Good job.
02:32Well done.
02:33That's right, yeah.
02:34Well done.
02:35But I'm surprised that Shah Rukh and the Pandey's are so close.
02:38I mean, I never thought when he first came that this would be the group.
02:43Yeah, it's just, that's why I'm saying it all became because of the families.
02:47Families.
02:48Yeah, the kids.
02:49The girls actually, the women got together.
02:50The women, the girls and yeah.
02:52And in fact, he was telling me the other day that, I think in some interview or something
02:57he mentioned that when he used to come to my house, I had all these cassettes of mine
03:01lying on the films I had done and he just wanted to do so many films or maybe a little
03:05more than those.
03:06And he ended up doing much, much more.
03:10So he's come to our house when he just came to Mumbai and as I said, from where to where,
03:16so it's incredible.
03:17At one time, your house was very famous for those New Year's Eve parties.
03:22Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:23You do, your parents, you, all of you used to host them and the whole of Bandra used
03:27to be here.
03:29Everybody used to come and there would be even…
03:30It was traditionally started, father started it, then I took over.
03:35And then I used to have a feast, used to have four, five hundred people.
03:39That's right.
03:40That's right.
03:41But gradually you stopped that, isn't it?
03:42Marriage, yeah.
03:43And then Ananya once had a damn good New Year party here in Bandra.
03:46And I said, darling, do it every year.
03:48But then you know how kids are, they want to go away and stuff.
03:51Because once you do a New Year party, you have to traditionally do it every year.
03:55Yeah, yeah.
03:56That's right.
03:57When you, families have got together and you're holidaying together, especially during Christmas,
04:02New Year, etc.
04:04Has that stopped now that Ananya has become busy and everybody's becoming busy?
04:07No, I think kids grow up and then…
04:10It's like your kids are with you till that, you know, till 15, 16.
04:13After that, the kids want to do their own things.
04:16In fact, now we went to Dubai with Raisa because Raisa came to India for holidays.
04:22So we took her to Dubai for the New Year.
04:25But I know next year Raisa will also not come, she'll want to be somewhere else.
04:29So you have to bribe them and want them to be with you.
04:32Life changes.
04:33Life changes, yeah.
04:34Once the kids have gone, then you have to do your own stuff.
04:39So considering some of the mistakes you made, did you caution Ananya about any of them?
04:46So I've always told her, never overestimate anyone.
04:52Because if she made a hit film with someone else, it's not necessary he'll make it with you too.
04:59And don't underestimate anyone.
05:01If someone is going through a low phase, don't write him off.
05:04Give everyone an equal playing field.
05:06Take that decision yourself.
05:08That you should really want to do this subject or be in this film.
05:11Don't go by reputation.
05:12Of course, reputation is important.
05:14But don't write off a person with a hit and a flop because anything can happen in this industry.
05:19One Friday can change.
05:20Everything can change.
05:21You've seen it, Parthi.
05:22I've seen it so much.
05:24So that's the only thing.
05:25And I've always told her, be well-mannered.
05:26And even today, wherever I go, when people tell me, you met your daughter and she's so well-mannered.
05:31For me, that's the proudest feeling that my children, at least what we taught them to
05:36be mannerful to people, that's the best a parent can do for the child, is teach good manners.
05:44Like my father always told me, he said, what you can afford, expect that from your producer.
05:52What you can't afford, don't expect him to give you that.
05:54Like if you fly in business class, don't expect him to give you a first class ticket.
05:58My father always told me that.
05:59You used to practice that for a long time, didn't you?
06:01I still do.
06:02I have a lifestyle and that's the lifestyle I expect.
06:07So I've never asked for anything more because I'm going on someone else's experience here.
06:13Because I noticed that.
06:14I remember at one time, he used to tell me, I fly business class and even if our friend's
06:19children are flying first class, when all of you used to go for your holidays together,
06:23You used to say, we are going business class, that's it.
06:26I'm not going to be, you know, just trying to be like the others.
06:30It's not trying.
06:31I mean, you have to, it's not, no one's trying.
06:33I mean, people, you can fly what you can afford.
06:36I mean, people have charter planes, people fly first class.
06:40Now it's fast first class only.
06:42When I can finally afford it, it's shut.
06:45Dirty shit.
06:46It's not, I would love to sit in first class, but Ananya has to say, Dad, I want to sit
06:51in first class.
06:52I said, you sit when you can afford a ticket.
06:54You can afford it.
06:55Now she can.
06:56Now, now you need chartered flights.
06:58Now it's no longer.
06:59No, no.
07:00She's very happy with it.
07:01If there is no first class in India, I think besides Emirates, no one else is flying first
07:05class.
07:06That's true.
07:07Yeah, yeah.
07:08But I did notice this about you, for all your, you know, I find you very grounded in a lot
07:12of ways.
07:13Am I?
07:14Yes.
07:15I think I'm stupid.
07:16Oh, why?
07:17I may be grounded, but I'm, I don't know, I think there's a little child in me that's
07:22not died yet.
07:24And I feel that should never die because all actors should, you know, it's, of course,
07:29people are sharp.
07:30I'm not that sharp, but I just like to keep my innocence and, you know, be as, as young
07:35as possible.
07:37The only thing that will keep me going.
07:38But you're a very good businessman.
07:39I've noticed.
07:40You think so?
07:41Yes.
07:42I mean, the properties you have invested in and…
07:45I've been lucky.
07:46You've been lucky.
07:47Okay.
07:48You used to call yourself a big miser at one time.
07:50You made the maximum jokes about your own miserliness.
07:53My own miserliness.
07:54Yeah.
07:55It's good jokes to make.
07:56Good jokes.
07:57Yes, yes.
07:58And I should be left out.
07:59No one is talking about me.
08:00Let's become a miser so that a few people can joke about me.
08:04But I've noticed you're not really a miser.
08:07You think I'm Pennywise Pound foolish?
08:09Okay.
08:10But I'm not.
08:12In those days, everyone used to smoke a cigarette and everyone had to quit smoking.
08:19So, what used to happen was that no one would bring a cigarette for the shooting.
08:22I didn't want to quit smoking, so I used to bring a cigarette.
08:25So, everyone used to break into my packet.
08:27So, I found out that four or six packets were finished in a day because everyone had
08:31quit smoking.
08:32Give me one.
08:33Give me one.
08:34After that, I started that I won't give cigarettes to anyone.
08:36That's where my miserliness started.
08:37Okay.
08:38So, I did something to save people's lives by not giving them cigarettes.
08:42So, what I used to do is I used to keep two packets.
08:46I used to put one cigarette in one packet and I used to tell the spot boy to keep the
08:51full packet in his pocket.
08:52When I asked for it, he used to give me the single cigarette packet so that no one else
08:56would ask.
08:57Okay.
08:58Because everyone used to smoke in the shooting.
09:00Because everyone had quit smoking.
09:02It was a great fad in those days.
09:03We quit smoking.
09:04Yes.
09:06That's true.
09:07So, that is how it started.
09:10Okay.
09:11Otherwise, no, I am not.
09:12Yeah, you are not.
09:13Not.
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