It's not every day that an ex-photojournalist gets photographed by a peer. For production designer Meena Agarwal, our arrival at their Bandra studio on a weekday morning, felt like homecoming. Agarwal, who is garnering praise for her work in the Netflix original Qala, started her career as a photographer with mid-day, where she worked from 1993-95.

On seeing mid-day lensman Atul Kamble, Agarwal begins mentioning names of people they both knew from “back in the day”. Kamble joined the news publication a few years after her. Yet, the two have a lot in common, having captured Bombay of the nineties on their cameras.