When Mehedi Hassan lay down a condition f

When Mehedi Hassan lay down a condition for Ravi Gosain

...it left the TV actor flustered! So what did the ghazal maestro ask for?

GITA HARI

How would you feel if an internationallyacclaimed person put a condition when ask for an autograph? Ask TV actor Ravi Gosain, who recently had an encounter with ghazal samrat Mehedi Hassan at Mumbai airport. Ravi was with his sister-in-law, who spotted the Pakistani vocalist with his family and being a great fan of the singer, she insisted that they get his autograph and picture clicked. Apprehensive about his reaction, Ravi reluctantly approached the ghazal samrat with his request and was startled when Hassan immediately agreed but on a condition –— only if Ravi agreed to click pictures with not only Hassan but also his accompanying family members!
The actor recounts, "Before I could collect my composure, the ghazal maestro told me that my character as Nigodha in Amaanat made me a household name in Pakistan." Ravi mingled with the singer's family and that's when Hassan's son Arif and he decided to join hands professionally as well. "Arif is producing a play, which is the first Indo-Pak venture in the theatre world and I have been cast to act in it," says Ravi excitedly.
His acting assignments apart, not many know that Ravi who trained under a German ballet instructor has been a champion in western dancing and that he had actually set out to be a choreographer or dancer, but he says, "I used to conduct ballet and acting workshops in Osho Ashram in Pune, but as fate would have it, I met with a road accident and broke my leg. I was on crutches for more than a year. Since then I stopped dancing and took to acting." As they say, Que Sera Sera!