‘Why does he mean so much to you?’ I asked. ‘He is self-made,’ she replied without a moment’s pause. ‘The films may not be the best. But he was a boy from Rajinder Nagar who rose to the top, he was an outsider who made it on his own, without any family connections in an insider-club industry where he knew no one. He came from nowhere. I admire that more than anything else.’
