Amitabh Bachchan: Hrishida was like a father figure to me and my wife, Jaya. Working with him was an unbelievable experience because his style of film-making was never to compromise on quality and on the story ideas.He never pandered to any baser instincts, and he set his own path which was neither too artistic nor too commercial.His knowledge of the craft was so immense that we just left ourselves in hishands. We never heard any scripts, never heard any stories - we just came on the sets. He told us to stand there, walk here, say it in this manner, speak like this - that's how he used to direct all of us. So our input was nothing at all. All that you see in his films is entirely his input.His characters were close to reality, and certainly the scenes that were writtenand the situations that we were put in, were so genuine and real and realisticthat they gave great opportunities to actors. His films were full of delightfulsubtleties and became great cinema.