'We went around with the story, but no one came forward to finance it. They would say 'Who would want to watch this?' Or they would say 'Ek to ladka dal do is me.' We said no, we didn't want to compromise.'
Full text of Rahul Dravid's Pataudi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi.
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