Days after they kick off the third edition of a talent-hunt show, that seeks to give a platform to ghazal singers, Pankaj Udhas and Rekha Bhardwaj make a case for the genre they have pursued from a young age. It has a limited audience, they are often told, and yet, year after year, their inbox is brimming with videos of young musicians recreating their ghazals, rendered several decades ago.

Like the show’s latest edition that has gone online, the duo too takes to a virtual platform for this conversation, interrupted by abundant laughs and poor connections.