How
Boman
Overcame
His
Speech
Defect
"When
I
was
a
kid,
I
was
very
afraid
to
speak,
because
I
had
a
speech
defect.
So
because
of
that,
I
never
spoke,
and
everyone
used
to
feel
very
sorry
for
me.
It
was
always
the
neighbour's
mum,
because
she
wants
her
kid
to
look
better
than
me,
she
used
to
call
me
Bechara
Boman.
And
since
that
day,
I
used
to
be
called
Bechara
Boman.
I
kept
saying,
what's
wrong
with
me?
But
there's
nothing
wrong
with
me,
there's
something
wrong
with
you!
Because
the
moment
I
came
out
of
my
shell,
I
haven't
shut
up
since."
Boman
On
How
His
Mom
Helped
Him
To
Recognize
His
Dreams
"My
mum
wanted
me
to
go
see
an
Alfred
Hitchcock
film,
I
was
only
11.
She
said
go
see
it,
I
said
but
they're
not
letting
me
in.
She
wrote
a
letter
to
the
manager
saying
‘I
have
no
problem
with
my
son
seeing
this
film'.
Can
you
imagine.
She
used
to
make
me
go
watch
movies
every
single
day.
And
that
ended
up
becoming
my
way
to
come
out
of
my
shell,
and
converting
my
shyness
into
boldness:
the
stage,
the
theatre,"
he
said.
"My
big
victory
was
the
day
I
took
the
stage
for
the
first
time:
my
voice
rang
out,
all
my
shyness
was
gone.
This
is
what
theatre,
the
stage,
does
for
you."
A
Humble
Begining
When
Boman
couldn't
get
into
any
college
because
of
his
grades,
he
decided
to
become
a
waiter,
and
headed
to
the
Taj
Hotel,
because
if
he
was
going
to
be
a
waiter,
he
wanted
to
be
"the
best
damn
waiter
he
could
be".
Later,
he
used
to
work
at
a
potato
chip
shop
named
Golden
Wafers,
which
was
started
by
his
grandfather
when
he
moved
to
India
from
Iran.
The
First
Break
After
working
in
plays
for
many
years,
Vidhu
Vinod
Chopra
spotted
him
and
after
much
persuasion
from
both
him
and
Rajkumar
Hirani,
Boman
agreed
to
do
Munnabhai
M.B.B.S
and
Bollywood
found
a
rare
gem.