“Uhm, Lobo Lobo, any reason why you’re dressed with this coloured headgear?”

Illustration/Uday Mohite

Lobo Lobo, my TV cable technician, came over with a coloured bandana around his head.

“Uhm, Lobo Lobo, any reason why you’re dressed with this coloured headgear?”

“See Dikuna men, let me begin at de very begniing — you see, you may have read, dat one legend fellow, dat great singer, wassisname, dat uhm AreeyJeet Singhing, sorry Arreyjeet Singh…he has retired from dat wochyoucall, ya playback singhing, so dat means I’m tinking if he wont Singh anymoe for dat, dem movies… dat lip syncing dat Kishore Kumaaa, and Rafi saab and all dese peeupls, de late great KK and all dese peepuls Sonu Nigam and all, he is retiring from dat only, den I can replace him.”

“Yes, by all those in the Hindi music singing business, he was considered number 1.”

“Yes men, Dikuna, evin I read de papers, he is saying he will focus, on his live shows and he wants to direct… and of cuss produce indie music,” Lobo Lobo said.

“What is your interest in both........

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