The untold stories of Bollywood dads

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Here’s what unfolded when an actor joined two directors on the Koffee couch to dive into the untold journey of their fathers.  : Disney+Hotstar

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00:00You wash my cab every day and I'll let you sleep in the cab

00:03He ran away from his house, hometown in Punjab

00:07Came to Mumbai without a train ticket

00:09Was taken behind bars

00:11Till the age of 16, we had a lot of struggles

00:14There were financial crises at home

00:18My father, who's no more

00:20He would have had the biggest laugh

00:22If he read that they called me the flag bearer of nepotism

00:26My father has had such a tough time to be where he was

00:29All of them have

00:30He was a production controller and then he became a producer

00:33So many of his films failed

00:35One after the other, he mounted films, they failed

00:38I remember my mum selling jewellery

00:40Selling my nani's apartment

00:42And I'm like, now we don't talk about this

00:44Because right now everyone is looking at the person today

00:47The struggle behind

00:49I remember, I was telling Rohit just now

00:51And I said, you know, we used to get premiere invites

00:53And then there used to be premieres in stalls

00:55And the seats used to be A to Z

00:58So when the seat used to come

01:00My father used to say, call and check

01:02Is it A at the back or A at the front?

01:04So most of the time, it was A at the front

01:06He said, no, the seats are very bad

01:08You go with a friend

01:09And you know, many a time, he's worked with superstars

01:12And then those superstars have parties or events

01:15And don't invite you after a film fails

01:17In many ways, the origin of action actually lies on this couch

01:21I think, you know

01:22And we haven't given the due credit

01:24And I think that we should

01:26Both of you come from families

01:28That are embedded in action

01:30Rohit, your father was of course

01:32Known to everyone in the industry

01:34I remember my dad speaking about him so fondly

01:37The beginning for you was not as easy as people know

01:40Today, you're called this blockbuster machine

01:43But the beginning, he passed away relatively early

01:45Very early, yeah

01:46How young were you when he passed away?

01:48I was in third standard that time

01:49Maybe eight or nine years old

01:51And then, I mean, how did things transpire for you right after that?

01:53Obviously, things were difficult after that

01:55Till the age of 16

01:56Like, we had a lot of struggles

01:58And then I joined him when I was 17

02:01You joined Kukuji first

02:02Kukuji, and then I came

02:03And then from there, we got together

02:05And your mom was in the business as well

02:06Yeah, she was a stunt artist earlier

02:08That's how my dad and mom met

02:10Met, how lovely

02:11And then after that, obviously dad was doing well

02:13Then she had stopped working

02:15Then after he passed away

02:17Then there was no, like, how do we

02:19There was a financial crisis at home

02:21Then she started working as a junior artist

02:23Then she worked as a junior artist for the longest time

02:25Till I started working

02:27And then, yeah, after that

02:29It's like a proper blockbuster movie story

02:33No, of course

02:34But you know, I mean

02:35It's important to know the beginnings of

02:37I mean, you know, we always celebrate the celebrity

02:39For their achievement today

02:41Do you think, where your father

02:43Such a celebrated loved man, Biru Devgan

02:45Do you think at that time, in the industry

02:48He was given the due that he truly deserved?

02:50Eventually

02:51Yeah

02:53Obviously, when he also started

02:55He ran away from his house

02:57Hometown in Punjab

02:59He was 13 years

03:00He ran away when he was 13?

03:02Yes

03:03He came to Mumbai without a train ticket

03:05Was taken behind bars

03:07He didn't have any work, so no food

03:09So he used to, somebody helped him

03:11That you wash my cab everyday

03:13And I'll let you sleep in the cab

03:14Oh wow

03:15So he started from there

03:16And eventually became a carpenter

03:19And then became one of the

03:21Gangsters in

03:22Who gone?

03:23Sayan Goliwada

03:24Where they used to

03:25He was a carpenter also

03:26And they had gangs

03:27At that time, there were

03:28These kind of gang wars

03:29And one day

03:31Very senior action director

03:33Mr. Ravi Khanna

03:34Yeah

03:35He was passing by

03:36And there was this

03:37Street fight going on

03:38And he stopped the car

03:40And he called my dad

03:42After the fight

03:43And he said, what do you do?

03:44He said, I'm a carpenter here

03:46So he said one very nice line

03:48Come and meet me tomorrow

03:50And made him a fighter

03:51Oh wow

03:52So that's where he started from

03:54How did your dad start?

03:55Because he was

03:56Similar story

03:57He was in Udupi

03:58And he came when he was

03:59I think 13 years old

04:0012 or 13 he came to Mumbai

04:02Was a waiter in Cotton Green

04:04In a restaurant

04:05Yeah

04:06And from there he started

04:07Then he started body building

04:09Doing boxing

04:10Yeah

04:11And then obviously

04:12Because he was well built

04:136'3

04:14Yeah

04:15And that's how somebody

04:16Gave him an idea

04:18And then he joined

04:19Again, senior to Ravi Khanna

04:21Sir

04:22Who was one

04:23Action director of

04:24Black and white movies

04:25Yeah

04:26Called Azeem Bhai

04:27Yeah

04:28And so he joined him

04:29And from there it started

04:30And then gradually

04:31He became the

04:32Fight choreographer

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