/>"Recently our family has gone through some trying times. We needed something good to happen. I was in London when I heard about Dad getting the Dada Saheb for legendary director. We're delighted...and surprised.

We thought everyone has forgotten the man who made so many super-hits in the 1960s. And in such a wide variety of genres, from the suspense thriller in Anhonee, to the musical-whodunit in Khel Khel Mein to the family saga Khuddar....My dad was at one time synonymous with genre-hopping cinema.

He never stuck to one specific style or cast. He worked with the whole industry from Amitabh Bachchan to Rishi Kapoor to Sanjeev Kumar.

Yeah agreed he didn't launch his daughter (me, giggle). He preferred to launch my brother Rajiv in a film called Ek Main Aur Ek Tu with Ranjita Kaur's sister Rubina which bombed.

The title was taken from a chartbuster from Khel Khel Mein. Today Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh are identified by those songs. But who remembers my Dad?

It saddens me because long before Ravi Chopra made Baghban my dad made Zindagi with Sanjeev Kumar and Mala Sinha which was on the same them of an old inseparable couple splintered by the family. My Dad is very shy of honours and recognition.

He brought me up as more of a son than a daughter. Whatever I am owe to his name in the industry. Ravi Tandon na hotey to Raveena ko entry nahin milta."