In the early 1950s, a father came looking for his young son who had fled from his Sangli home to Pune to live his cricketing dreams. He found him at the Deccan Gymkhana in whites, but little did he know that he had spent the last several nights in a dungeon living on a few hundred grams ofu00a0channa-kurmara.

Vijay Bhosale has come a long way since those hard days. He turns 75 today.