If you were the cassette-buying type in 1990, you probably remember this image. A white background with horizontal, equidistant lines — like a page from a ruled notebook. A boy and a girl in what appears to be an embrac

• Remembering jhankaar beats, the 1990s, and Aashiqui, which turned 25 this July.

• In a rediff.com interview a couple of years ago, Rahul Roy, the boy on the cassette cover, said, Within three days, all the songs were a hit We had only one television show to promote our songs and that was Chitrahaar.

• Look at this man smoking inside an airport, while buying a ticket Look at Rahul and Anu in an escalator during the Nazar ke saamne number (one of the songs I like, along with Mera dil tere liye and Ab tere bin), a couple of years before Rajinikanth, in Annamalai, would feature in the definitive escalator scene Look at Deepak Tijori, doing that hand gesture thats now been enshrined in two books: Arnab Rays May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss and Diptakirti Chaudhuris Kitnay Aadmi Thay.

• In a Hindustan Times interview from a couple of years ago, Anu said of Bollywood, I think its universe had opened its bathrobe for me.

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