We are writing that. We had written earlier, it was all superb. The actor, we hadn’t officially announced, but everybody knew Aamir sir was doing it. He still wants to do it. He always tells me, ‘It’s the best script I’ve ever read in recent times, jo mujhe karni hi karni hai (that I absolutely want to do)’. There are some family reservations about that, especially my mother. She wants to do it from one perspective and we had written the script from another perspective. Obviously, I can’t make a film about my father if my mother isn’t convinced about it. Once my mother is convinced about the script, which she will be eventually.”Gramophone Company of India (now Saregama HMV) had been the reigning king of Hindi music for decades, though in the 1970s, Polydor and CBS had emerged as challengers. But for the two MNCs, India wasn’t a priority market given its small size, since very few people could afford the turntables and the records.
Two factors combined to change that. First, a liberalised import system allowed a surge of Japanese cassette players into the country. But with the big boys, primarily HMV, still focused on records, the opportunity might have gone abegging had it not been for the entry of Gulshan Kumar.
