On most work days, Vanya Bahl wraps up the chores in her one-bedroom apartment in Andheri and rushes to Bandstand to catch the golden hour. The 24-year-old usually calls in a favour from a friend to for a car ride; a Mumbai local would not be gentle to her equipment and costumes.

A tenacious hustler—a true Gen Z trait—she shoots dance videos at often the exact same spot. “It’s ironic that I go to bandstand as often as I do now,” she says, “it was one of my first stops when I moved to Mumbai a year back. I wanted to see Mannat and Galaxy Apartments, and now I film my routines for Instagram and YouTube right in front of the Khans’s homes. It really is the city of dreams.” Bahl moved from Chhatarpur, in Delhi, to Mumbai about a year ago and is manifesting her dream of waltzing into Bollywood as a choreographer.