The star reveals the pickles he first sampled from the 51 jars his Delhi-6 director sent him on his birthday

When we meet Abhishek Bachchan at his office, he's just back from a week-long trip from America and London, battling jet lag, bleary-eyed from two hours of sleep after attending Sanjay and Manyata Dutt's anniversary party.



However, he's chippy. Delhi-6, his 'destined' film with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, is the reason.

Delhi-6's script first came to you years ago, right?
Rakeysh has always bounced his scripts off me. Once I read this, I thought to myself, 'Wow, this is really nice.' Roshan Mehra, the guy in Delhi-6, I understood him. When I was schooling abroad, I knew what it felt like to be an outsider in a different environment. I was secretly hoping, 'You're going to ask me to do this film or not?'
But I couldn't shoot immediately. For a month, we tried wrestling dates. So I said, 'We've tried to work before, but it didn't work out. I'm sure God has some other plan for us.' Eight months after, he met me and said, 'I've tweaked the script and I feel only you can do this. Do you have the dates now?' My schedule was open.