The producer is now ready to launch his son Jaccky in Kal Kissne Dekha, opposite another newcomer Vaishali Desai.

He tells Patcy N about his journey to stardom, and of course, his new film.

You have produced so many films from the No 1 series to Sorry Bhai. But we barely know about your struggling years.

I come from a lower middle class family in Kolkata. My father was a wholesale dealer of saris and would earn about Rs 6,000 to Rs 7,000 a month.

When I was 13, he suffered a huge loss in his business. I had to give up my education and help him in his business as I was the eldest among my six siblings.

I would take 50 saris to Cuttack, Orissa, to sell them. I would travel without ticket in the second class train compartment, and sit outside the bathroom. I would stay in small hotels which had a tariff of Rs 15.

I continued selling saris for 10 years, till 1983.

When did things change for you?

I got married in 1983. That was the turning point in my life. My wife Pooja brought luck in my life. I got a motorcycle soon, and then got myself an Ambassador car. In 1989, I came to Mumbai.

Why did you come to Mumbai?

After five years of marriage, I went to Delhi and made some builder friends. I started a construction business, and stopped my sari business. I made about 17 bungalows and became a crorepati.

So I came to Mumbai and bought a house in Andheri [a Mumbai suburb]. I constructed a few buildings there as well, and started doing well.

I moved on to a cassettes business. I bought a plot in Silvassa [on the Maharashtra border] and built a cassette manufacturing factory. I named all my businesses after my wife.

I keep changing because I need do something new all the time.