• Tell us more about yourself. Tell us about your initiation into cinema. We know that you acted in Mera Naam Joker.

These walls we are walking within are of R K Studio, of which we all know. I started my career when I was just two years, in a film called Shree 420. As a baby. We walked in the rain for the famous song Pyar hua ekraar hua. And then, when I was a teenager, I did Mera Naam Joker.

• You were the eternal teenager.

Mera Naam Joker was shot in the studios. Then Bobby, and after Bobby, so many other films. These walls stand testimony to the time we have worked here.

• You got the Best Child Actor Award when you were sixteen.

It redefined the child actor of 16 or 18. Nonetheless, they did give me that award.

• All 16-year-olds in the country wanted to be behind that bush (laughing), watching Simi (Grewal) changing, I think.

You’re talking about that? Right.

• You were the envy of all 16-year-olds.

The film was about adolescence, you know. My part in Mera Naam Joker was well-received. You know, funnily, when the film didn’t do very well, my father was inspired by that chapter, which Simi and I had in that film, to make a teenage love story. That’s how Bobby was born. Bobby was made with a lot of love, had great music, and a great actress in Dimple (Kapadia).

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