"Woh manzil kya jo aasani se tay ho, Woh rahi kya jo thak kar baith jaye." Young Jagdeep often heard his mother, Kaniz Fatema, utter this Urdu couplet. They goaded her on in her fight to exist. Years later, it became the footnote of his life. His reference point, his mantra in hostile times. From an affluent family in Datia, Madhya Pradesh, life flung eight year-old Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jafri (actor Jagdeep's original name) and mother Kaniz on the streets of Bhendi Bazaar in Mumbai.