"I was dancing in a train for a song in a movie (Chaiya Chaiya on the sets of Mani Ratnam's "Dil Se..") that Santosh Sivan was lensing, and he came up to me between shots and told me about Asoka," says Shah Rukh Khan. "I could only understand half of what he said but I could see the determination in his eyes, and that, somehow or other, he would make it with or without me. That's 80% of the battle won. I was hooked."