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All of sudden there was a big celebration in the family and relatives, because a son was born after two sisters and I was surprised thinking that I am going to be crowned as a king of. India. But all of a sudden there was a silent in the room and my father saw six fingers in my both hands, so went into shock thinking how he will join Indian Army, so being an Army officer he held a blade and cut my two finger from hands.There was a pool of blood like a fountain everywhere. I must have screamed or cried but all in vain, finally he got his Army Officer ready after chopping off his two fingers from hands. So this was the first gift of my father to me. My mother cried but, no-one could speak in front of him.

So finally out of 24 fingers, I sacrificed my four fingers or gave a my birthday present to my father. The next thing my parents were supposed to do my name ceremony, so lot of people suggested different names, however my father didn't like a single. My father was in Indian Army and grandfather was a landlord who had five sons, one from my first grandmother and four were from my second and real grandmother. My father was the youngest of four. My father and his elder brother Mr Baljit Singh was in Army and his eldest brother Mr. Amar Singh was with Mr. Subhash Chandra Bose in Indian National Army (INS). So finally my eldest uncle Mr Amar Singh suggested my name "Subhash" because Subhash Chandra Bose was his ideal, leader and inspiration. And my father happily agreed to keep my name " Subhash.

As soon as the news of my birth with 24 fingers spread in nearby places, all the people started making different stories about me. someone said he is the reincarnation of some God, few said that he will be very lucky to his parents and few said that he may be an unusual child. Everyone was predicting about my future but no one actually knew that what was stored for me in the future.

When my mother was expecting me , the old people from village used to suggest my mother to keep some God's pictures in her room, so the child will be like Him. So she kept a big childhood picture of " Lord Krishna having raw butter. So When I was five months old my mother saw me eating a lot of butter from the cooking pot and started believing the superstitions of the villagers and old people, because there was a saying in our village if a lady is pregnant, she should keep some nice pictures around her and should listen some devotional music, so the child will become the same.

All of a sudden all the women from village started screaming looking at a big snake in the night who was crawling very fast towards them, suddenly my mother from behind pulled my hair and gave me a tight slap for making women scared of snake, as it was not a real snake. All of my friends used to make snake of cloth & rope dipping in mud with a thread and used to pull to make them scared.

After completing my class 10th in 1985 I took admission in Govt Boys Sr Secondary School, Delhi in Arts stream as I couldn't score good marks in my board exams. So I put all my focus on the studies and thought that I have to appear some govt job to make my parents proud. I completed 12th in the year 1987 with good score and headed for college admission.

I saw first film of my life" JAI SANTOSHI MAA" with my parents. It was such an amazing experience because everything seemed so real and fascinating. My second movie was" KRANTI" in Delhi with my parents at Alankar Cinema, Lajpat Nagar which actually made me think that even I should be on the screen because it was such an amazing experience to watch all the actors on screen. I bunked my school to watch the my third movie " BANDHE HAATH", where I was introduced to "Mr. Amitabh Bachhan" not real but on screen. And that's where my journey to watch all the movies started.

Once I saved few rupees and bought three tickets of a hit film . I used to see lot of  people selling tickets in black or double rate.  I also thought of selling two tickets in black , so I could collect some money to watch another 4 movies . Luckily one couple was asking ticket from a person who was selling in black, I was little scared to ask them if they need ticket but finally asked and sold them a little less of double. My first & last act of black ticketeer.