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Chunky Panday shares one of the funniest stories from the start of his career in this exclusive throwback conversation. Recalling how he landed his first film, Aag Hi Aag (1987), as he reveals how a party at a luxury hotel turned into unexpectedly funny yet shocking. As he was dressed in a kurta-pajama, a hilarious wardrobe mishap left him shout “Koi toh naada kholo!” stuck in the bathroom & filmmaker Pahlaj Nihalani came to his rescue. The what followed was an unlikely meeting that changed his life forever. Catch this full story only on Lehren. #pahlajnihalani #chunkypanday #chunkypandey #throwback #rippahlajnihalani #aaghiaag #aankhen #lehren #lehrenretro

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00:07I believe Pailaj Nilani saw you in a washroom and that's how you became an actor.
00:14I wanted to be like Amita Bachchani, you know those days Amit Ji that politics joint
00:21and I thought that I could not be able to put a hat on the floor and I was like
00:28to open a hat on the floor and I was like to open a hat on the floor and I
00:31was like to open a hat on the floor and I was like to open a hat on the floor
00:33and I couldn't help.
00:35Suddenly, I said, I was like, I need help.
00:38He didn't know who you were.
00:39No, he had no idea. I didn't know who he was.
00:42But there was no social media.
00:44And he was a producer.
00:46How do you see the photos of the producer?
00:46Where are they?
00:48Then I asked him, I said, I had a lot of beer.
00:52He had also had a few.
00:54I said, sir, what do you do?
00:56I have made a picture of Govinda with him.
00:59I said, wow.
01:00What do you do?
01:01I want to be an actor in a model.
01:03I want to be an actor.
01:04I want to work tomorrow morning to my office.
01:06That's how it happened.
01:07That's how.
01:08Before that, I was struggling for three years.
01:10I didn't get any film.
01:12In fact, I was shot-list in Haiba films, Nari Hira.
01:15Nari Hira.
01:16Nari Hira.
01:16Aditya Panchuli role role.
01:17Right.
01:18Then I was shot-list for Abhimanyu's role.
01:24Maabharat?
01:24Yes, Maabharat.
01:26In B.R. Chopra's office, Rafi Chopra's office.
01:29In fact, he didn't do it.
01:31Then I finally did an ad film with him.
01:33There were a lot of, I was trying for a long time.
01:36Okay.
01:36Then I was, screen test toh bhaut diya.
01:39B.R. Subhash ke liye screen test diya.
01:40Rajshri office mein bhaut.
01:42And so, after three years, I got my film, yaar.
01:45Right.
01:45From the time I decided.
01:46And that also by fluke.
01:47Aise baathroom mein.
01:48Thanks to your nada.
01:49Thanks to my nada.
01:50Yaar nahi jata baathroom toh shayad.
01:53Aaj haf kisi or ka interview nahi reit.
01:57No, but it's, it's all, that's, that's the beauty of the film industry and what happens.
02:02Yes.
02:03We are here just to tell beautiful stories.
02:08And that's how it should be.
02:09But that's real life.
02:10Yes.
02:11That's how we became from animals to humans.
02:14Because we could tell stories.
02:15No other animal can tell a story.
02:17So, yeah.
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