The sun didn’t shine the way it is used to and soon the gloom reached my drawing room. To make it to work that day, I googled ‘Happy Hindi Songs’ with no hope of finding anything worthwhile. Swades movie’s Yuhi Chala cropped up, played itself and hit the spot.

On a similar day, when Mumbai wasn’t sure whether it wanted to pour down or not, our meeting with Ashutosh Gowariker, one of the makers behind the song responsible of lifting my mood two days back, was reconfirmed. Nestled in the bylanes of Khar was his office readying itself for the day when I enter in five minutes to ten. It isn’t usual for Bollywood interviews to be conducted this early, but then surprisingly Ashutosh is on the couch busy over the phone when we enter and he politely excuses himself. Ten minutes later we are ushered into a conference room with a whiteboard filled with a blueprint of some sort. “I should have wiped it out,” he says once he discovers that we had figured out that the diagrams were in fact a part of the Mohenjo Daro set. Ashutosh laughs easy and is animated as much as he is composed. And apparently, a cut different than the rest when we hear he just finished a Skype interview at 8 am. He shrugs his shoulders as if it is a normal exercise in Bollywood. You know, modesty and all.