"Apne gusse ko paalna seekh,” is not just a dialogue from Sunny Deol’s Ghatak (1996), but a saying that actor Lakshya swears by. He tells us the line stayed with him as he waited years for his film career to take off. Today, time is on his side — he is the lead of Aryan Khan’s maiden directorial venture, The Ba***ds of Bollywood. “My life has always been such. Mujhe har cheez rulake milti hai. But I feel if [something comes] quick, it doesn’t last. If you work hard and sincerely on something for a long time, it works out,” says the actor.

Over the last two years, Lakshya and his co-stars Raghav Juyal, Sahher Bambba, and Anya Singh waited for their moment in the sun as they shot for the Netflix series. It wasn’t easy. Lakshya recalls, “People used to say, ‘Tumhara serial kab aayega?’ But we were aware that what we were making would take time. Aryan has taken his time in writing, shooting, and editing it.”