Sunidhi: And who did you sing for?

Kunal: I wanted to be an actor. School days were so monotonous -- get home at a particular time, everything scheduled... When schooling ended, in the second month of college, I wanted to do something so that I wouldn't have to go home early. I was in Elphinston College, Mumbai, and classes got over around noon. So I joined an acting school.

One evening some seniors heard me whistling while I was waiting for a workshop rehearsal. They asked me whistle again and then sing the song. I tried to slip out of the room. But I was asked to behave like a junior and do what the seniors say.

I thought to myself, when I start singing they will ask me to stop in the next few seconds and I will prove my point. So I sang, and to my and their surprise, I was singing! After the song got over, they dragged me to the cultural secretary Mahesh Tamane, who is a dear friend of mine now. I was told I will have to sing Ek din bik jaayega, Mukeshji had originally sung the song.

And since you ask me whom I sang it for, there was this girl in college, Maitrey, a very good friend of mine even today. The entire college had a crush on her. Whenever she entered college, all the guys, including me, would sigh!