Of course, it was many other things too but I asked my dad casually on one of his trips to my hostel and decidedto cut my hair one day. I wore a turban till I was about 18, till it became really difficult for me to manage washing and wearing one in a hostel. He asked me why I wanted to assist him and I said, вЂBecause I have been told that it takes years to get a break as an actor.вЂ™ And he said, вЂKaun bolta hai?вЂ™ He gave me the script of Maachis and I got my first role even though a small role in a Gulzar sahab film.ДЄLSO READ: Producing films was bad experience: Jimmy I started replying to him in Hindi and he liked my Hindi. DonвЂ™t you know Hindi?вЂ™ I didnвЂ™t know what was in his mind. He said, вЂI am asking you questions in Hindi and you are replying in English. Gulzar sahab started asking me questions. My classes were getting over and I knew that if I went back no one would let me come back. In 1994, I came to know that Gulzar sahab was directing Maachis and via someone I knew, I went to meet him hoping to assist him. My father suggested that I come back to Delhi after every 20 days to spend 10 days with them before I went back and that really helped me for a lot of years. Of course, my family supported me throughout both emotionally and financially.

My family thought that I wouldn't last for even 15 days given the change in my lifestyle, but I did. What I most liked about Mumbai was that I could start my life on my own here and I decided to join Roshan Taneja sahab for his acting classes and was there for a year-and-a-half. Prior to coming to Mumbai, I was always known only by my family. My cousin kept brainwashing me and I started watching Hindi movies. Other than my dad Satyajit Singh Shergill, who does painting as his hobby and his bua who was the famous Amrita Shergill, I had no connection with the world of art. I would laugh it out as I never watched Hindi films apart from Sunny Deol and Sanjay DuttвЂ™s films as I was a big fan of both of them. He convinced my father how he thought I should get into movies. He owned this store where he sold collections of the top designers in Delhi and thus in some way he was well connected to both the designers as well as well-known people who would buy from his store. Right from my childhood, I have always looked up to him and living with him got both of us even more attached to each other. He spoke to my father and wanted me to be with him for a while in Delhi and so, I moved to Delhi for a while. As destiny would have it, his father, who was very close to me and my father, was murdered all of a sudden and my cousin felt all alone. I have this cousin Suminder who is my buaвЂ™s son and is ten years older who lives in Delhi. I completed my B.Com from Patiala and wanted to do MBA. We also have a house in Patiala in Punjab. My family owned distilleries and agricultural land. We are sardars and I come from a big joint family from Sardarnagar in UP. Over an hour-long conversation ahead of his upcoming film Fugly, he speaks to Pune Times about the pampering of Gulzar sahab, the strictness of Aditya Chopra and his connection with the famous Amrita Shergill. While he looks up to Irrfan as an actor, he idolises Gulzar sahab as a director. He is either comfortable working with directors he is close to, be it Tigmanshu Dhulia, Raju Hirani, Shoojit Sircar or Neeraj Pandey, or being in his cocoon at home with his wife Priyanka and son Veer. вЂњThe double-Grant thing never really worked for me.Jimmy Sheirgill, 43, is emotional, lazy and moody. вЂњI thought that the Jimmy Lee/Celia story should have been the frontburner one,вЂќ he admitted. Today, Bond still regrets that things didnвЂ™t turn out differently. вЂњI mean, he goes and steals his brotherвЂ™s girl?вЂќ he laughed. Much like viewers, Bond was stumped by the story twist. Reeling from his loss, Jimmy Lee wound up marrying half sibling AlanвЂ™s former squeeze, country-store owner Charity Gatlin, and moving to Pautuck to help her run the business. вЂњSheвЂ™s fallen off the grid,вЂќ he admitted of the star who moved to Hawaii. Unwilling to struggle, Celia took off! Just as Jimmy Lee never saw her again, Bond hasnвЂ™t seen her portrayer, Sherilyn Wolter, either. Their elaborate nuptials were to be held on a train, but a recently-exonerated Grant stole Aztec treasure from Sean Donely in the hope of impressing Celia and plotted to use the train to transport it! Alas, what eventually cost Jimmy Lee his bride was his financial downfall.

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