Our premier issue featured Amitabh Bachchan on the cover and we desired to feature him on our anniversary cover as well but Bachchan was not speaking to the media those days so getting through to him was not easy. Our office sent him a copy of the anniversary issue though and he surprised us with a congratulatory note.
This was the time Parveen Babi had resurfaced after a long exile and was lambasting Bachchan in every tabloid and magazine. I asked Bachchan if he was open to the idea of an interview with me and he agreed spontaneously. There is a possibility that he was deliberating a truce with the media for some time and I was the catalyst. Whatever the reason I was the first journalist he spoke to.
To make the cover picture special I sought ace cameraman Ashok Mehta but still photography was not his forte and the pictures were not up to the mark. The cover was a sell-out though and now all the stars wanted to shoot their family pictures with us.