 start-ups and I write about entrepreneurs and they have perhaps some of the toughest times when they build their businesses. You've done the same grind too as an actor. So you know you started your life from ground zero and today I mean I was reading Architectural Digest and they said you got the most beautiful home in Mumbai today. So what's it been like to go from ground zero to write up Yes, it's been a hard journey and it's been a different kind of experience. I don't know from where to start from to answer your questions. It's going to take a lot, lot of time to talk about it. My formula has been a very different kind of formula. I'll tell you something. Yes, my hard work is a lot. In my film industry I've been working hard since last 28 years now. I've finished about 130 films and I've now become a producer since last 10 years. I've been producing films like Vakth, Namaste London, Singis King, Airlift, Baby, Special Chabris and so on and even Padman also. I always wanted to bring, you know the most important thing of my life has been that I wanted a change. Every time anybody tries to put an image on me, I have always jumped to some other image. I never wanted to be in one track because I always think a change is the most important thing in anybody's life because if the person can change himself, he can do many different things like I don't today I'm glad to say you know when I started my career, he just knows action but I just went and I started doing comedy. I started doing romantic films. I started doing I've done villains role. I've done so many kind of different kind of roles. I didn't care about it. I just went and then changes. So I just would like to say the changes is the most important thing but on top of that I would bring one thing whether you believe it or not but this I will share it with you guys that my success lies a lot and my parents feet I'll tell you why my whenever in the morning whenever I go to work I always touch my mother's feet and go ahead trust me it is it has made so much difference in my career in my life I have been saved by so many people who are like a lot of negative energies I've been saved from but that is the fact yes obviously the hard work is the most important thing changes another thing but to have a positive aura around you and that only your parents can bring you not even God it's only your parents who will bring your positive aura around you and care for you I think that's the truth of us and that's the Indianness of us which we should always keep alive so my next question to you would be actually how you know you most I look at so many industries and I can tell you Bollywood is the most competitive industry I've ever seen you virtually coexist with sharks for the lack of a better word so you know I remember there was a time when I read about and I'm a business editor though but at this odd time that I read a film fair magazine and it said it compared you to Amitabh Bachchan and you are truly you know the young Amitabh Bachchan of India and I know he is your God star too so how is it you know how do you live in a competitive world like that how do you sort of make sure the day in day out you beat the competition and stay ahead of the race I think it is your mindset if you believe in competition competitiveness I don't believe in competing anyway with anyone I don't believe in competing I don't I don't like the word competition I like to have my own track because I think there's so much work if I'm talking about my film industry there's so much work there are guys 186 Hindi movies made every year and we count how many six eight I like to deconstruct myself I like to deconstruct when I construct myself completely then I look at myself I want to break it I want to break this whole image I want to start another construction and build another one this is I would say it is my mindset this is what I have followed I never stick to one particular image I just want to just keep on innovating myself undergoing I know I mean I can be comfortable by just doing commercial cinemas like a rowdy Rathore or an household or this kind of films but I just want to deconstruct myself even when I did 2.0 with Rajnikan sir I'm playing a villain's role a lot of people ask me why do you need to pay play a villain's role why not what is wrong there has to be one a villain or not she had a hero ko bada bata na hai to a villain or not so rich here so I just need to be I'll I'll I love to deconstruct myself that is it ma'am sure so you know I also see that you probably the complete man of the industry you know you're so busy you do for movies as you said not many stars attempt for movies 20 ads okay some maybe about in a year about 18 to 19 shows maybe sometime even ribbon cuttings you know and yet you make sure that you always spend time with your family and you always have time for holidays and I see startups who just get so engrossed with their work that they completely forget that they have families back there they have parents their children their wife sister you know how do you make sure that you balance it out see I'll tell you that is why the first thing when I started talking about it I said the most important thing is take care of your family take care of your parents that is the most important thing yes you're right jab admi kaam me lag jaata toh sab kuch bhool jaata hai lakin actually usko karna nahi chiye because the strength lies in your family the positiveness lies in your family I I work a lot I work hell of a lot but it is nothing I divide my work nothing I always take whatever in my life I want to do I do it with maths I calculate it I'm doing four films a year I'm doing about four movies a year one movie takes about 35 to 40 days so kine din ho kaya 40 sin to four 160 ho kaya 160 us ke baad kine din bachhe 365 din ke anzal se 160 kaya toh 205 din mere pahas pade hain jis ke anzar main chote chote ads kar leta ho agar main bis adh bhi karnu toh do din ke ishaap se 40 din ho kaya 200 din ho kaya 135 din mere pahas pade were free I I don't work I Saturday I work only 7 to 2 2 o'clock in the afternoon I'm off Saturday 2 o'clock onwards I don't work Sunday I don't work Monday I start working I work 8 hours a day but in that 8 hours I am on the set I don't move away from the set I don't go sit in my vanity van I tell my producer my director that I am here you make me work me apka knocker ho 8 gante ab mucse kaam kar waayi 8 hours is good enough because because after 8 hours you know because I have to be in front of the camera I have to look good I cannot be looking haggard agar main barak hante bhi karsakthan 14 gante bhi karsakthan but I don't need to and in 40 days I film I finish off my film I take one and a half I take one and a half month of holiday with my family every year continues I just put the globe in front of my wife and ask her I worked a lot you tell me where you want to go I do that I so basically the word I'm trying to say is all you have to do you have to look at your family you have to look at your priority your family is your first priority this is what I believe and I have always done it and I would suggest you your family is your first priority once the priorities set properly once they also know key okay my husband or my father or my or my brother will after working he will come and he will spend all his time here perfectly fine nothing can go wrong with you guys nothing can go it's a tried and tested thing which I have done it I have even told a lot of people in my in my colleagues I have told them and I have seen changes coming to them you know you plus I don't party not that I'm saying parties bad for health I don't say that but I believe there's no need to because I don't enjoy it I sleep every day at around 9 9 30 I get up at 4 o'clock in the world I mean I tell you one thing I want to tell you that I haven't had such a day since I was born since today that I have never seen such a day that I haven't seen the sunrise and secondly after 6.30 p.m. there is no need to eat food your body doesn't ask for so much food like crazy I'm getting tired of it man after 6.30 p.m. after the sunrise there is no need to give an hour to your body after 6.30 p.m. stop eating and see where your health will come from simple thing simple it is not complicated and who says that many people say that you should go to the party you should meet someone else you get more work so people are not giving you work because you attend their parties people are giving you work because you deserve it and that is it I love the fact that you said that you have some extreme discipline and that you follow it and it's work for you but how do you keep your ecosystem in such a discipline you know I mean because Bollywood is known to party it's known it's about fun it's about excitement so how do you make sure that your entire teams your your producers your directors go actors everybody's in tune with you because when they are working with me the agreement is so strong that they have to come early morning properly time otherwise the agreement will get you it's a good thing to be in a position where everybody not even a small producer can do it it is not that I'm gonna say because if you are taking a chance and if you I always believe I always tell everybody I am an actor who's a producer's actor I believe what the producer says I have to do it and it is important he is my boss but yeah some of the cases I myself am the boss of myself that's beside the point you know one thing I like about the Bollywood industry and I think which all industries need to learn is that money cannot be taboo you know money cannot be taboo you know I talk to social startups and they always tell me that paisa to kabi eyes I got but it doesn't work like that businesses cannot sustain without money you cannot grow your business or yourself without money having your businesses your products making money so you know what I would want you to message out to startups here today is that making money is really important I see money is become somehow a third or a four-year plan after the start of business you can tell taniyya joki eventually I'm bought something to start up one of the reasons is because kids in the dhyaani dhyaaki customer villana padega you know making money is important in the trade that you're man I managed a big up up not come sure you get a I had I was working I did films for 50,000 rupees then start the life after about three years man a up not a medic Ladi it would be after that came a time when I started charging two lakh rupees a movie things went on but for I think a long time I'm a say for ten years I worked jhaki look carol it a man I'm not more than about 10-12 lakh rupees a movie so you're the 10th highest paid star in the world so so now but then I worked hard for it and it is not necessary I miss you don't have to run behind money first you have to run behind your product first you have to run behind the quality first and after that things will change you will realize it and I think that I have done like that so I cannot tell them anywhere in any other way