My Radio My Life, An Award-Winning Documentary Screened in 36 Countries and Over 80 Film Festivals, Explores the Relationships People Shared With the Radio From Its Golden Age to the Present Day

"I'd sit alone and watch your light, my only friend through teenage nights, and everything I had to know, I heard it on my radio," these lines crooned by Freddie Mercury in the hit classic Radio Ga Ga, captured the relationship that young people growing up in the golden age of radio shared with it.

- Mahima Nagaraju

Many of those young people, much older now, still hang on to this intimate and nostalgic relationship, refusing to let it be relegated to the past.

My Radio My Life, an award-winning documentary set to be screened in the city, captures these stories.

Co-director Makarand Waikar explains, "The concept was to archive it as a documentary so that anyone in the future, would know what relationship people had with the radio in an era without internet or mobile phones, when everyone depended on newspapers, magazines, and news from the radio." He adds, "Several people made decisions based on the radio; they considered it a friend, philosopher, and guide."