He studied in Narsee Manjee College in Vile Parle and being a theatre buff, used to frequent the Bhaidas auditorium situated near his alma mater.
It was love at first sight for him when he saw Swaroop Sampat in 1975 at a function and made up his mind to marry her. He finally did it in 1987 after a 12 year courtship.
He may have won his spurs as Annu Bhai in Arjun (1985) but he made his debut in a small role in Ketan Mehta’s Holi (1984).
He worked as a stock villain in more than a 100 films throughout the ‘80s and the ‘90s before finally making a name for himself for his comic touch playing twins in Andaz Apna Apna (1994).
He became a producer with OMG – Oh My God! converting his own celebrated Hindi play, Kishan vs Kanhaiya into a film.
He won as the Bharatiya Janata Party's Member of Parliament (MP) from Ahmedabad East in the Indian general election, 2014
One of his forthcoming films is said to be a bipopic on PM Narendra Modi where he reportedly plays Modi.
He and Swaroop have two sons Aniruddh and Aditya. Aditya is learning screenplay writing in New York and Aniruddh is working as an assistant director on Salman Khan’s Sultan