Mithun's voice no more

Who was Nandu Bhende who passed away after a heart attack at 58 in Mumbai today? What was an easily answerable question a couple of decades ago might be difficult to crack today: especially for those who grew up watching the satellite television and believing that Madonna ought to have retired from music several years ago. Those who saw Disco Dancer as young men and women in 1982 – or even have a very faint memory of the film, having seen it as children during the same period – cannot forget the hysteria that the film generated.