The world has music bands. India has always had musical duos — composers, like many great things, showing up in twos! Some of them such cute siblings — such as Sajid-Wajid (the latter sadly no more); or Salim-Sulaiman. Others, friends: Sachin-Jigar, Laxmikant-Pyarelal. And a few still who aren't pairs at all — Raamlaxman (who scored for Hum Aapke Hain Koun), or Ismail Darbar (composers of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas) are one and the same person!

Where do I ever see music composers celebrated regularly — more often than not posthumously — by name? On sada-bahaar retro-nights held in Mumbai's music halls like Shanmukhananda etc, where amateur/professional singers get together to pay "tribute to a legend" (living or otherwise). You see their pocket ads every day in the newspaper. Why do I never go to one of these nights, instead of listening to the same songs, on my drunken, must-listen, Bollywood retro YouTube/Spotify playlist? Because what's the point? The sense I get is performers on these shows indulge in imitation/mimicry of a composer's works — instrument by instrument, note for note.