The next time you spot a rickshaw plying within Thane with a fancy Eminem sticker on it, know that it is owned by the proud father of an emerging local rapper. Nineteen-year-old Ashutosh Mohite, aka MC Maar-T, says he could not have finished his debut album, recorded and produced in Los Angeles, without his father Anil's support.

"I grew up in a small home in Thane's Chirag Nagar. I still remember how people in the area would tell my father he won't be able to offer a good education to my sister and me and that we were not allowed to dream, for they will never be fulfilled. When I took to rapping in school, these voices multiplied, but my father never lost faith in me."