Later on, even I would step out straight from the bathroom, to `sahab, ab ghar par nahin hain (sir`s not home)," says actor-filmmaker Satish Kaushik, 64, of the time in the early `80s in Bombay, when he`d been chasing down director Shekhar Kapur. The attendant on the phone only had multiple excuses to ward off such phone calls.

Having heard once from a spot-boy that Kapur had gone to the airport to drop off someone, he went there straight, to introduce himself, asking for a job of an assistant director (AD). There was a position available, but going to be filled by one Rajkumar Santoshi, he was told later.