How did you miss it, man?” is the gentle question coming across the phone. Rahul daCunha sounds a touch disappointed that yours truly gave the recent nostalgia of the Guns N’ Roses concert in Mumbai a miss. Hard not to be nostalgic when we are talking about the two-decade-old play that forms the basis for his upcoming film this week, Pune Highway.

“It [2004] was a very different time. People had the time, energy and interest in true culture. It meant writing in all areas. Film, advertisements, cinema and theatre,” says daCunha, also a columnist with the Sunday edition of this paper. Having founded RAGE Productions in 1992 with Rajit Kapur and Shernaz Patel, daCunha was well on his way as a mainstay of the English theatre scene in Mumbai then.