There is even a poster and other material lying around somewhere in my computer/hard-disk,” Shah Rukh Khan told me during an interview once, about how, at one point, he was actively scouting for moneybags for Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan, so he could star in it.

Only the funding was hard to find. After a failed meeting with producer Ratan Jain (Venus), SRK told Gowariker to remember all these people, who had no faith in him—once he made it big. Jain promptly called me after this SRK interview was published. I asked him to sort it out with the star instead.