Actor Vivek Oberoi is a story worth a memoir himself. And I don’t mean it in the way you might be thinking. Genuinely, some of the best showbiz anecdotes I’ve heard are from him. For one, they relate to Ram Gopal Varma’s film Company 2002, his acting debut, which has undoubtedly survived the test of time, and that is rare.

How did he land that role? Not as a star-son, he told me once. He had trained himself to become the quintessential Bollywood hero, ticking off all boxes in a ’90s resume — learning action, dance, romance, horse-riding…. He even had directors Abbas-Mustan lined up for his first film. He developed cold feet at some point though, knowing that his father had invested all the money into the ‘launch’.