Did you know Boman Irani once worked as a waiter and earned only ₹105 per month?

From starting his journey as a server at the French restaurant Rendezvous at @TajMovies Mumbai to making a mark as a trailblazer in Indian cinema. While he’s known for his impeccable comic timing, he’s also got an irresistible charm and charisma that he brings to the table. On this episode of Tere Gully Mein, we had the pleasure of walking down memory lane in South Mumbai with Boman Irani & going back to where it all started for him. He shared some extremely endearing anecdotes about what experiences have made him who he is today.

Catch him join Kamiya Jani as they travel through the gullies of South Mumbai.

Boman Irani makes his OTT debut with Masoom now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar

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0:00 – 1:06 Introduction
1:10 – 1:50 Boman Feeling A Wave Of Nostalgia
1:55 – 3:42 Working As A Waiter At The Taj Mahal Palace
3:43 – 4:12 Enjoying A Mediterranean Meal At Souk
4:13 – 5:07 Introspecting His Early Days
5:08 – 5:38 Income As A Server
5:39 – 6:20 Parsi Sunday Brunch
6:21 – 7:19 Love For Photography
7:20 – 8:13 Tour Of Taj Mahal Palace
8:14 – 9:24 Emotional Anecdote
9:25 – 10:19 Becoming An Actor
10:20 – 11:00 Talking About Family Time
11:01 – 11:53 Growing Up In A Woman Dominant Household
11:54 – 12:38 Relationship Advice By Boman Irani
12:39 – 13:13 Fans Approaching Boman
13:14 – 14:48 Enjoying Ice Cream At K Rustom
14:49 – 15:37 Talking About Parsi Stereotypes
15:38 – 17:43 How Bawa Is Boman Irani?
17:44 – 18:18 Talking About Masoom
18:19 – 18:56 What’s Next!?
18:57 – 19:43 Thank You 🙂

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Sandwich I have a very handsome server here yeah all that is fine but do leave a nice handsome tip for sure So very warm welcome to curly tails thank you does this place make you feel nostalgic i am actually suppressing my emotions believe it or not really this is uh the exact place where i used to work i serve drinks and snacks because this is to be called now it’s called the souk

I think it’s middle eastern food if i’m not mistaken yeah here at the taj the top floor beautiful view the best view in the city and it was the the apollo bar and before i went next door because that was my thing i needed to work at the french restaurant the

Best restaurant in the country it was right next door the rendezvous they made it into a banquet house all now yes which i think we should go over there yeah and so you know this is the show te regalime uh the intent of the show is walking down the memory lane right so

That is exactly what we are doing and i’m so glad and we picked a place which is very close to your heart Foreign [Laughter] very clearly there was this other waiter called thomas money who came and said so it’s not his fault i said yeah it’s her teammate and he just now one tray fell down you know so so the thing was that the tray was wobbly it had a play

So when you put the beers yeah on top and i picked it and put it here it went up and all the other so okay i said okay i forgive you i would have sent you downstairs again but before you put beers on the tray next time check check

See that’s a wobble you cannot have an excuse for anything in this world there is no excuse it’s always your fault remember that’s what he told me I just thought of something after i left working here it’s the first time i’ve come back really and that was in which year 1979 wow 43 years you’re coming here after 43 years that is so so so cool and i’m so glad that uh you’re coming here with me so

Thank you so much for this honor so lovely i say to myself i’m glad i did all these things it gives you an idea of hard work and yeah understanding people observation knowing what a person is thinking jumping to being instinctive as an actor yeah i think it you you become very instinctive

When you are noticing things you’re looking around you’re seeing somebody uh having a conversation maybe you turn the shoulder you know you got to be there like tom and jerry you know yeah so you’re very alive and i think it helps as an actor my salary was 105 rupees for a month

Yeah wow tips good money with the visit as you tuck that money away yeah i took that money away and i bought my wife a chain a gold chain when we got married with that money and i bought myself a camera camera from the money i made over here

And then what happened my mother in an accident oh okay she needed someone to go and say to the shop so i went so amazing might do a punjabi so for us like sunday brunch sindhi household is silly kadhi and chawal curry yeah sai bhaji bhaji kadi sindhi kadi and

Punjabi household it’s rajma chaval chennai chawal what about a parsi household ah okay how often do you make that very often on sundays or on holidays does it doesn’t mean we’ll have a chicken dance there’s no such thing yeah you can make a chicken nancy it’s a mutton bunsa and

When you go to sleep do you cook i do a great boiled egg [Laughter] okay you’re also very fond of photography right very do you still click pictures on the iphone on the iphone today can i have the privilege of getting a photo session done by you i

Hope you’re not too expensive though we’ll negotiate look at me Wow it’s a really nice one will you air drop these pictures to me please now this is nice very nice so how much did you charge back then for per picture per picture a portfolio started at three thousand then i went to ten thousand then into twenty thousand

But that’s also many years ago that was when i was thirty seven thirty eight so it’s kobe kidneys This is the rendezvous so this restaurant was the best restaurant in india and i used to work here there’s a session going on but come come here this is the restaurant but it’s busy today unfortunately this was the harbor by i was talking about okay yeah how about i just mentioned it

Yes yes over here welcome back thank you so this youtube this used to be the golden dragon and right below this is the big kitchen for golden racket and um the the room service right okay the big the big kitchen all down masala craft this used to be tanjore okay disturb

So i’m standing two floors up okay i’m carrying a tray and to room service yeah from up there i can see a lady coming up to go to someone’s wedding it was my mother and i did i made a sound i said charbano yesterday yesterday was a one-year anniversary death anniversary

Okay so she’s over there and she looks up who’s this i’m wearing a bow tie and she says who’s that i said this is your son come on and then and then she was a second she was was carrying a tray yeah standing here like this two floors up

And she looked at me and then she said bless you oh my god isn’t that great that’s just sweet isn’t that great it’s such a simple thing so she’s she’s a moistman okay you’re doing an honest day’s work and the story yeah let’s go guys So would you like to have some ice cream now let’s go [Laughter] i was already uh 20 years into the marriage when you became an actor yeah though by then you’re you know your bond is very strong what about your kids oh they are fun they’re great company they’re very good good sense of humor yeah they like hanging with family

They like hanging with their grand they still love hanging with their grandparents which is a very beautiful thing right you know they didn’t think it was uncool to hang with their grandparents yeah i mean my experience has been like older people have a lot of fun to hang out

With they’re great fun they’re dying to have fun yeah they want to sit with goddamn their phones and sit on instagram right and so many tales to tell and naughty yeah growing up you were also surrounded by a lot of women yeah so five masses and some god knows how

Many chachis and and and my aunt my dad’s sister lived with us and all my cousins were girls and it was but it’s good good you understand women better i think yeah what do you think what do women want women like a little attention yeah if if if you’re not into their shopping

Spend half an hour at least yeah they’ll like it i mean my wife does my wife you know well if i i buy a most ninety percent of the sarees i buy really yeah so when i travel i pick up they’re ninety percent of the size i

Mean in fact me in the last 10 15 years i think a hundred percent of the sarees i i bought and any relationship advice you’ve been married for now good 40 years almost yeah yeah any relationship marriage advice that you would like to give to our audience

Don’t carry an argument over the next morning finish it in the night even if it’s your fault say sorry you’re not winning any prizes you’re not meaning any lotteries if you want that argument i won the argument so what that’s number one because in the morning you normally forget what you’re arguing

About the night before yeah relationship advice number one number two end it with a joke I just wanted to say that we thank you very much all right let me get down and meet you yeah it’s okay you just you have your own time no we are coming to your ice cream nice to meet you ladies so what is the most common compliment that you get from women

You remind me of my dad that’s not true i just saw like five women walking up to you and all of them said that we find you very very cute they were treating me like their son [Laughter] let’s go Come on the weather is hot perfect weather to enjoy an ice cream of course let’s do this who’s buying us ice cream no i’ll buy you ice cream my dream yeah unbelievable brevon stadium this is brevon building right behind us bravo cricket matches and school sports sandwich ice cream sandwich This is delicious i’m having the walnut crunch but you’re regular here at cairo you should come in the car one guy takes our order outside and uh with the cage with the grandkids my grandkids come here really wow Thank you so much this um such a beautiful old world charm almost 70 years old and i’ve seen like a lot of rc’s have restaurants running for so many years isn’t it as old as they are tell me what is the most cliche thing you’ve heard you being a person there’s

So many cliches and stereotypes is there any any particular cliche that you find very annoying i know you know i don’t know i think i don’t get annoyed very easily number one right number two is the cliche thing is we always be very rich okay now that i have a green signal from

You that you don’t get annoyed i’m going to play a fun game with you oh boy i get an idea how baba are you okay right i like tradition i’m proud of the heritage and that’s what how it should be yeah so what according to you is majani like life is actually family

Food drink dance sing help others and go and sleep well sleep well live well yeah okay if you have to choose one between patrani machi and amrit sarimachi what would it be but now that i’m doing mushroom i think for this season okay all right

Okay so for how many years do you retain the plastic of your car seats or your furniture enjoy the plastics respect your heritage give back you’ve got a lot from the community you have a lot that that you get because by virtue of a reputation by virtue of

Property by virtue of so many things houses give back and you can only give back if if you abide by our forefathers and the their great generous attitude right if you don’t respect that you should you don’t deserve to get you can’t take and not give back okay one last party thing you

Have to do you will say something really nice about me in parsley see parsley’s don’t lie oh [Laughter] yeah a wonderful mystery a wonderful very intriguing and i can guarantee you’ll see all six episodes in one match it’s a great family drama yeah it was great to active it was great to perform

That’s what’s important if the actors are not enjoying what they’re doing it will show on screen yeah we enjoy watching you on the big screen and i’m sure we’re going to enjoy watching you on an ott platform as well other than massoum are there any more films or

Projects that we should be watching out for what a wonderful lineup and great story suraj and then soon after that uh next year maybe we’re still shooting for donkey i finished most of my section sections uh of donkey yeah and then i’m starting my own production which i’ll be directing

So oh yes so pre-production will start in a couple of months okay actor director writer donning all the hats it’s been wonderful chatting with you today and walking down the memory lane with you both work space my record and enjoying this wonderful ice cream thank you so much

Thank you for your time with us and really had a great time You

21 Comments

  1. Watching this video I was smiling ear to ear. Thank you Boman Iranijee.. Big thanks to Kamiyajee for bringing this show..

  2. He was a waiter at the Taj once and now he’s going there as a customer in his own shiny Range Rover. Mr. Irani, you are an inspiration!

  3. EXCELLENT 👌👌👌…
    DEAR BOMAN IS A GENUINE PARSI… INTELLIGENT, MISCHIEVOUS AND WARM HEARTED HUMAN BEING…
    VANDE MATARAM 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳…

  4. Boman sir is a natural born actor. He has great observational skill. Loved the way he told his story.

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