Bollywood's greatest dog lovers

Not far away from Turner Road in Bandra was the residence of Hrishikesh Mukherjee who had at least half a dozen dogs in his flat at any given time. I remember going on the sets of Abhimaan with an appointment given to me by the gracious director for an interview and seeing that the shooting had been called off suddenly and the unit was told to pack up. Worried, I had gone up to one of his assistants to find out what happened and the guy told me wryly that “Dada had an emergency at home” as one of his pomeranians was in labour and the sensitive director was the last person to leave her alone with the vet at such a time.