A panoramic view of the skyline stretching below a Tardeo tower, taken from its 36th floor. Pic/Chirodeep Chaudhuri

The heady rush of romance made him forget. Years ago, when he was courting his soon to be wife Nitina, theatre actor Kanti Madia got busy showing her Bombay's skyline from the perch of the city's real observatory: Café Naaz atop Malabar Hill. Suddenly, his raised finger froze after hovering mid-air over that distinctive dome crowning Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan at Babulnath. It flashed — he should have been on stage there that very moment.