My career was a roller-coaster ride but I never stopped taking chances.

Jatin Khanna and I both changed our names for the silver screen. He became known the world over as Rajesh Khanna and from Ravi Kapoor, I transformed into Jeetendra! A little known fact is that we were also school friends.

Farz' proved to be a flop for the first 10 weeks. I remember buying tickets worth Rs 5000 myself, just so the film would run in theatres longer. And in the 11th week the film miraculously picked up and ran for 50 weeks!

I came from a middle class family hence I had to struggle hard for success.

I was glad to know that 'Caravan' was one of the first movies from Bollywood that was loved by the Chinese audience.