Actor Kabir Bedi, in an interview, said that when he visited Rajiv Gandhi after he became Prime Minister in 1984, Rajiv told him, "Kahan phas gaya hu yaar (Where am I stuck?)" "I told him 'PM ho, serious ho jao (You're the PM, get serious)'," Kabir added. "Rajiv said 'You don’t ask me to get serious. You are my friend'."