Last Sunday evening, crowds along Juhu Beach converged as they ran for cover from a passing shower. Huddled under a gazebo with a group of about 50 people waiting for the intensity of the rain to lessen, two things struck this writer; that no one carried an umbrella during the monsoons and that it felt a lot like a scene from filmmaker Basu Chatterjee’s 1979 Manzil when Moushumi Chatterjee and Amitabh Bachchan, who didn’t carry an umbrella either, ran through the rain at Marine Drive. Can we still find pieces of Bombay within other parts of Mumbai?

Cafe Samovar (above) featured in the film, Chhoti Si Baat. File Pics