Yeah, I am very worried. I get quite worked up about two aspects of my children's upbringing. One is that I hope my name as an actor, or as an entertainer, or as a person who has been working in the media, should be as it is now. I wish it to be always remembered. I work to be remembered. I'll never be immortal but I feel that with that bigness, my shadow is not so big that my kids can't come from under it. I hope they are able to live beyond the shadow of their father's name.

I am being a little presumptuous here, I am assuming that I will be remembered for a long time but I will not be wrong to start thinking like that. I am 41, I have been working for 20 years, I have done well for myself, I just hope my name is never going to be, the shadow is not so long and dark that my kids can never come out of that, whatever job they decide to go and work in, whether they want to be actors or they want to be computer engineers, whether they want to be in medicine. That is one thing that worries me, and I don't know how to do anything about it. I am just hoping it doesn't happen.

The second part is: yes, my wife (Gauri) is very middle class. It's very strange to be sounding on about middle class when you have a BMW outside your house, which is one acre big. But these are the peripherals of the job.

You know, people think I bought this big house I wanted to live in a big house. But the idea is I am from Delhi and everybody lives in big bungalows there. For a Delhi-ite it's not a big house even though I am a middle class boy.

It is very strange but the thought is that we are very middle class as far as how we deal with things is concerned, how we talk in the house, we don't have a lavish lifestyle beyond the fact that the peripherals that come with my filmmaking or film stardom. The problem is everyone who comes home is on television so earlier my kids would think everyone works in television. Whether it is Karan Johar or Hrithik Roshan or Abhishek Bachchan or Preity Zinta or Rani Mukerji or Kajol or Juhi Chawla. They walk into the house and my kids would say dad, everybody works in television. But they have understood now.

I am not strict but I am very clear that one aspect they don't ever forget, that if I can't educate them well being a star means nothing. And I try to do that, I teach them personally, I take a huge interest in what they do, and I am very sporting by nature so I like them to do sports. I do what my father used to do with me. He was an educated and middle class man of good nature and polite. So I try and be all that. The only difference is there are too many hoardings of mine in the city. That's the only difference between my father and me.

I worry about it, but I am giving it my best shot. I hope I never have to make a movie for my son, and I hope whatever he decides to do, I hope I never have to make him an actor. I hope he is an actor by choice, I hope he likes what he does, and I hope he never has to compare himself to me however good or bad I might at the end of my career.

I believe youngsters should do their own thing. I don't get disappointed when I see a youngster with his navel pierced; or long hair; or strayed jeans. I think all that is part of fashion. I will not stop my kids from being like that because that would be strange. But I believe you should have good education and values.