It was around 77. That was a period when I started feeling bound by the attraction of Bollywood. I used to bunk my engineering studies and go to the movies. I had not become a journalist then. 'Mayapuri' reporter Chhaya Mehta used to be my good friend. I have always been fond of watching films and eager to meet film people. I used to reach a fixed point to meet Chhaya and her photographer brother Deepak Mehta. The greed was that I would be able to go along with them to meet some film personality