Bollywood beckoned, and Jagjit wanted to go to Mumbai. But, first, a stopover at Kurukshetra, Haryana, where his father forced him to take admission into MA History course in 1963 at the Kurukshetra University, but studying was not the singer's forte.
When the time for exams came, Jagjit's preparations were nil, and then the singer made up his mind to leave for Mumbai. On March 19, 1965 Jagjit went to the station and took the Pathankot Express going to Mumbai.
In Mumbai, Jagjit began singing at family and localised functions like wedding, birth anniversaries, etc. He got openings to sing jingles in ad films, and he made new friends.
Says Kabir Bedi, who used to direct ad films: " We started our careers almost together. I used to direct ad films, and he used to do the jingles for me. Later, he became a great ghazal singer and I became an international actor.,"
Staying in Worli, Jagjit used to go up to Dadar for his meals, where the restaurant owner used to give him meals for free. Jagjit shared a small room with four others in Worli.
