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