Forty-nine-year-old Suresh Khadke, trustee of the Chembur-based DR Khadke Pratishthan, is palpably excited about the 36th year of the suburb’s Sangeet Samrat Alladiyakhan Music Festival. “It may seem impossible to keep up a music festival free for people for over three decades, but here we are,” he says.

Kishori Amonkar at an earlier edition of the festival