In was in 1992 that, in a one-bedroom on the first floor of the Jolly Maker Tower 1 in Cuffe Parade, Charles Vaz, Baba Sehgal and Atul Churamani tried to record Thanda Thanda Paani, a song that went on to have one of the highest recall value for any 90s kid. Vaz’s bedroom doubled up as a studio, with a thick curtain being the only physical evidence to earmark it as one. At the time, Vaz, was a hotshot music arranger, after working with singer Alisha Chinai, and Baba, a relatively unknown artist. But they did what they did, and the rest is history.

Hip hop completed 50 years this month, from its birth way back in 1973 in the Bronx, when Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc, improvised and played snippets in a ¬loop on two turntables to keep the music and dancing going. And it took us back to Thanda Thanda Paani, a song that started it all in India, and sold 100,000 copies in three-and-half-months, an undefeated record to this day.