Nishant Karki and Abhijit Thakur during the rehearsal of Bhasmasur in Bandra. Pics/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

Nearly four months into the rehearsals for his play, and it's only recently that Sachin Jain, Hindi editor of Gaylaxy and core member of Gay Bombay, realised that Bhasmasur is, in fact, based on his own experience of growing up as an LGBT person and then joining the family business in his earlier avatar as a software engineer.