Remembering the radio days

Three music lovers get together to recreate the magic of radio via Zoom

Arthur Conan Doyle once said, “There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.” More than a century later, three Mumbai-based music buffs, rather inadvertently, charted a similar course. Instead of a violin, they chose melodious songs of yesteryear, for half an hour on weekdays, to help their listeners briefly forget the misery of these pandemic-hit times. Meet Archisman Mozumder, Shankar Iyer and R. Balaji — the men behind these live, guided listening modules aired on Zoom for members. The trio, who started meeting at a common friend’s house at weekends to discuss music in 2010, have organised music-centric stage shows since 2014. In 2017, they co-founded Teesri Manzil Infotainment Ltd and held a series of shows across cities for companies. Today, with a handpicked collection of over 20,000 songs across genres, they are Team Rewind. For over a year, they presented ‘Rewind Song of the Day’ on Radio Nasha, and became familiar to FM listeners in Mumbai.